From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!houti!trc
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Rotating Ants Spin the Universe
Article-I.D.: houti.132
Posted: Fri Jul 30 19:40:29 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 06:12:57 1982


	Could some relativity expert explain something that's been puzzling
me?   If velocity and acceleration are relative (IE no true fixed reference)
then how come, on a spinning wheel, an ant (fixed in the wheel's frame)
experiences an apparent acceleration, seemingly induced by the spinning of
the external universe?  
	This makes it appear that there is some rotational reference frame,
at the very least.  Perhaps there is some sort of local reference frame,
based on causality being limited to the speed of light? IE, the ant
on the wheel can't really spin the universe by spinning the wheel.

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