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   Luigi Fortunati to All   
   Re: Is the free-falling elevator an iner   
   04 May 23 08:23:52   
   
   From: fortunati.luigi@gmail.com   
      
   Luigi Fortunati il 02/05/2023 12:57:39 ha scritto:   
   > Watch the video   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyPAEMQKBuo   
   >   
   > Astronaut Samantha Cristofoletti is on the spaceship in free fall where the   
   gyroscope left free to turn does not remain stationary in its initial position   
   but tilts with respect to the spaceship, ie rotates.   
   >   
   > Samantha Cristofoletti explains that it is the spaceship in free fall that   
   rotates and not the gyroscope that maintains its initial position.   
   >   
   > Well, if the spaceship rotates, it's not an inertial reference frame.   
      
   I ask you for confirmation.   
      
   It seems to me that Samantha's gyroscope works *exactly* like Foucault's   
   pendulum: does it?   
      
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