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Even to a thinking lay person, the implications of this are profound. Imagine a toroidal structure of even "normal" matter. Imagine also the entire toroid is "spinning" in on itself in a way such that, if a slice of cross section of the toroid were observed, it would be in fast rotation. (Perhaps physics has a proper term for this type of motion ?) The principal of gravitational waves and frame dragging mean that an object passing through the toroid's center would increase in velocity and yet experience no subjective sense of acceleration. Amazing.

[QUOTE="boomerang, post: 239623, member: 3872"] Even to a thinking lay person, the implications of this are profound. Imagine a toroidal structure of even "normal" matter. Imagine also the entire toroid is "spinning" in on itself in a way such that, if a slice of cross section of the toroid were observed, it would be in fast rotation. (Perhaps physics has a proper term for this type of motion ?) The principal of gravitational waves and frame dragging mean that an object passing through the toroid's center would increase in velocity and yet experience[I] no subjective sense of acceleration[/I]. Amazing. [/QUOTE]

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