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Bee or Elephant in the rotating room? Okay, So the next question is: is there a point where the mass of a mysteriously floating object is affected enough by the Earth's gravity to overcome the pressure of the rotating air in the restaurant? If this object can maintain its altitude (without...

Thank you! Loving some of the complexities being proposed - the idea of the helium balloon NOT moving to the edge of the restaurant due to higher air pressure is interesting! But the main consensus (which happily backs up what I have always argued) is that because the air in the room would be...

This causes endless arguments around our dinner table: If there were a fly or a bee hovering in a theoretical revolving restaurant, would it move with the revolution of the room or stay stationary relative to the outside. The restaurant is theoretical in the sense that everything in it...