Friday, November 14, 2003
Couldn't go back to sleep. Damn.
Googling for "gravity spin" brought page after page of hits on brand name clothes dryers insterspersed with a few gems like the Big Spin Model of Gravity. Nothing, though, that looks like what my dream brought to my mind.
posted by John Otis Comeau 2:14 AM
I just woke up from one of my typically bogus nonsensical dreams with the following (probably false) revelation: gravity doesn't just pull, it spins as it pulls, like a whirlpool or coriolis effect. It probably wouldn't be noticed within earth's atmosphere unless the length of the drop were very long and the rotational friction were minimal.
If this is true, it's very likely Einstein already discovered it long before I was born. Or maybe it has something to do with the angular momentum of a ray of photons I just read something about on slashdot a few days ago. I think. Something like that. Damn, I'm tired. Going to try to get back to sleep... maybe research this some other day... just didn't want to lose that possibly important info... zzzzzzzzz....
posted by John Otis Comeau 12:46 AM
