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Atari_Me
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It has often been posed that one reason humans cannot feel the motion of the Earth as it spins and moves around the Sun is that our bodies have acclimated to this motion due the fact that it is all we have ever known. If true, does this mean that astronauts have experienced feeling the motion of the Moon as they walk around its surface?
I imagine the above is a bit of pulp fiction as you would not feel any effects of the the Moon moving around the Earth due to the constant speed, however, as the Moon is a spinning object as well, logically would there not be a certain measure of centripetal force that the astronaut would be able to feel, much like a car moving around a curve? Or is this counteracted by the Moon's gravity?
I apologize for the third-grade level of this question, but as I am presently unable to afford a trip to the Moon, my brain is having trouble working out how the physics of this situation ends up.
I imagine the above is a bit of pulp fiction as you would not feel any effects of the the Moon moving around the Earth due to the constant speed, however, as the Moon is a spinning object as well, logically would there not be a certain measure of centripetal force that the astronaut would be able to feel, much like a car moving around a curve? Or is this counteracted by the Moon's gravity?
I apologize for the third-grade level of this question, but as I am presently unable to afford a trip to the Moon, my brain is having trouble working out how the physics of this situation ends up.