IANAPE, but it does seem hard to ‘relativise’ being torn assunder by centrifugal forces vs rotating slowly while the sun laughs in the face of the speed of light.
I’m thinking back to those Feynman lectures. I have an incling that he said rotation could be detected if you were stuck in one of those hypothetical transport containers. Failing that, just thinking of the relevant experiment is making my right hand turn blue for some reason.
I’ll throw those two together and surmise that “who is orbitting whom” is just a matter of “who cares? Just plug in the weights and give me relative positions and a direction” but that rotation you’ve got somewhat less flexibility with.
IANAPE, but it does seem hard to ‘relativise’ being torn assunder by centrifugal forces vs rotating slowly while the sun laughs in the face of the speed of light.
I’m thinking back to those Feynman lectures. I have an incling that he said rotation could be detected if you were stuck in one of those hypothetical transport containers. Failing that, just thinking of the relevant experiment is making my right hand turn blue for some reason.
I’ll throw those two together and surmise that “who is orbitting whom” is just a matter of “who cares? Just plug in the weights and give me relative positions and a direction” but that rotation you’ve got somewhat less flexibility with.