Recent content by Jordi Heguilor

I have no problem understanding this situation, but the non-moving bike seems different to me. The action of the rider moving their body right seems to me would produce a left force on the pegs, so the bike would continue tipping left. But I trust you are right.

Thank you.

You talk about a stable object (the Earth). I don't see that applying to an unstable one (i.e. a bike) that is affected by my moves.

The other day I was watching a trials rider balancing a stationary motorcycle and apparently they can do it pretty much indefinitely. I don't understand how they can do it. Say the motorcycle (and rider) starts tipping left. So the rider moves their body to the right to compensate. But this...

I asked Bard that question and it responded (among other things) that a) globular clusters are spherical and b) that they are spinning rapidly. Aren't those two things contradictory, as in they should be flattened by centrifugal forces?