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eaglechief
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- I'd like to understand if a constant moving inertial system could simulate gravitational effects
Given 4 spaceships are pulling an elastic rubber membrane with constant speed and slow velocity into an asteroid belt.
- In that way, that they all start in empty space and have a constant low speed of say 50km/h as they reach the belt.
- The four edges of the membrane are tied to one of the four spaceships.
- the spaceships do not slow down and pass the asteroid belt with constant speed
- the rubber membrane is made that way, that on Earth a rock weighting 10kg is curving the membrane visibly
- the asteroid belt constains different kind of rocks from 10kg to 100kg in random distribution
- the rocks of the belt have no speed and are resting with v = 0 in the belt
will the following happen or not ?
(a) as the brane passes the the belt, single rocks will have contact to the brane and are beeing accelerated in the direction the spaceships are heading until they move with the same velocity of 50 km/h as the brane and the 4 spaceships (Yes/No)
(b) due to the inertia of the rocks the rocks will curve the brane and different dents occur depending on the mass of the different rocks (Yes/No)
(c) 100kg rocks will cause bigger dents with larger radius. Smaller rocks which are klinging to the membrane in the very neighbourhood will begin to accelerate towards the bigger dents (Yes/No)
(d) "bulk dents" appear, where several rocks have been collected by the heaviest rocks (Yes/No)
(e) distributed along the membrane will occur more and more bulk dents which are curving the membrane locally in a strong way and are collecting further single rocks as well as other smaller bulk dents (Yes/No)
Thanks in advance
Carlo
- In that way, that they all start in empty space and have a constant low speed of say 50km/h as they reach the belt.
- The four edges of the membrane are tied to one of the four spaceships.
- the spaceships do not slow down and pass the asteroid belt with constant speed
- the rubber membrane is made that way, that on Earth a rock weighting 10kg is curving the membrane visibly
- the asteroid belt constains different kind of rocks from 10kg to 100kg in random distribution
- the rocks of the belt have no speed and are resting with v = 0 in the belt
will the following happen or not ?
(a) as the brane passes the the belt, single rocks will have contact to the brane and are beeing accelerated in the direction the spaceships are heading until they move with the same velocity of 50 km/h as the brane and the 4 spaceships (Yes/No)
(b) due to the inertia of the rocks the rocks will curve the brane and different dents occur depending on the mass of the different rocks (Yes/No)
(c) 100kg rocks will cause bigger dents with larger radius. Smaller rocks which are klinging to the membrane in the very neighbourhood will begin to accelerate towards the bigger dents (Yes/No)
(d) "bulk dents" appear, where several rocks have been collected by the heaviest rocks (Yes/No)
(e) distributed along the membrane will occur more and more bulk dents which are curving the membrane locally in a strong way and are collecting further single rocks as well as other smaller bulk dents (Yes/No)
Thanks in advance
Carlo