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Kusadikika
#1 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 12:18:20 AM
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Suppose you are lying on your bed face up and there is a fan directly above you. Suppose that your bed started spinning in the same direction as the fan. How would you perceive the movement of the fan blades as you spin faster and faster?
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#2 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 9:10:25 AM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Suppose you are lying on your bed face up and there is a fan directly above you. Suppose that your bed started spinning in the same direction as the fan. How would you perceive the movement of the fan blades as you spin faster and faster?


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#3 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 9:30:51 AM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Suppose you are lying on your bed face up and there is a fan directly above you. Suppose that your bed started spinning in the same direction as the fan. How would you perceive the movement of the fan blades as you spin faster and faster?



You can perceive the movement of the fan blades by stepping out of you bed.......#thinkoutsidethebox#
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#4 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 1:09:57 PM
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As the speed of the bed increases, the fan appears to slow down until it is stationary when both speeds are equal. When bed speed exceeds the fan's it will appear as though the fan is spinning backwards. That is the illusion of time and rotation/revolution of the earth versus sun
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#5 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 1:16:55 PM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Suppose you are lying on your bed face up and there is a fan directly above you. Suppose that your bed started spinning in the same direction as the fan. How would you perceive the movement of the fan blades as you spin faster and faster?

The fan would seem to slow down as your speed approaches that of the fan, then seem to stop when you match it's speed, as your speed begins to pass exceed that of the fan, the fan will seem to slowly turn in the opposite direction,but this will make you dizzy.
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#6 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 1:22:56 PM
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kayhara wrote:
Kusadikika wrote:
Suppose you are lying on your bed face up and there is a fan directly above you. Suppose that your bed started spinning in the same direction as the fan. How would you perceive the movement of the fan blades as you spin faster and faster?

The fan would seem to slow down as your speed approaches that of the fan, then seem to stop when you match it's speed, as your speed begins to pass exceed that of the fan, the fan will seem to slowly turn in the opposite direction,but this will make you dizzy.

Yes, in technical speak. but in actual situation this can make you puke like shyet!
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Kusadikika
#7 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 2:04:07 PM
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Now imagine that you have a spiral staircase in place of the fan.
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#8 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 4:43:44 PM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Now imagine that you have a spiral staircase in place of the fan.


You'd fall asleep, no?
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#9 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 5:24:03 PM
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Chief Guest wrote:
kayhara wrote:
Kusadikika wrote:
Suppose you are lying on your bed face up and there is a fan directly above you. Suppose that your bed started spinning in the same direction as the fan. How would you perceive the movement of the fan blades as you spin faster and faster?

The fan would seem to slow down as your speed approaches that of the fan, then seem to stop when you match it's speed, as your speed begins to pass exceed that of the fan, the fan will seem to slowly turn in the opposite direction,but this will make you dizzy.

Yes, in technical speak. but in actual situation this can make you puke like shyet!

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Kusadikika
#10 Posted : Friday, August 05, 2016 5:27:25 PM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Now imagine that you have a spiral staircase in place of the fan.


You'd fall asleep, no?


I don't know but I guess you would still throw up like you said. But I can just imagine how confusing to your mind it might be to be looking at a fuzzy thing and then as you get to the right speed it appears clear and still and looks like you can walk up or down on it.

Maybe everything we perceive and experience can change drastically by changing just one factor. So I wonder just how different the world would be if the rotation of the earth around its axis slowed down so that instead of having a 24 hour day we got a 48 hour day. What things would look different? Or if it slowed down on the speed around the sun so that instead of a 365 day year we had a 500 day year?
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