The milky way is moving 1.3 million miles per hour. If a ship gets shot down in space, wouldn’t it fall towards the center of the galaxy?
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>>23590803I'm confused by the question but a ship shouldn't 'fall' towards the center of the galaxy relative to other objects unless it was put on that trajectory.
>>23590803No it would eventually end up in the Great Attractor.
>>23590836If the great attractor is bending space and making us fall into it like a coin in a hyperbolic funnel. Wouldn’t a ship’s targeting computer have to lead the target a bit since we are traveling towards it faster than the beam shot from the laser?
>>23590803You're imagining that a ship would eventually reach 0 speed relative to the center of the galaxy, which isn't true. A ship shot down would still be moving together with the galaxy at 1.3 million mph, even if it looks like it's immobile relative to you.
Accelerating a ship’s beam using the ship’s gravity engine to bend space should make it travel faster than light.
>>23590858YO WHAT FUCK IS A CLOCK?!?
>>23590803If there was a planet or some shit in it's past it would be drawn in by that gravity. There would have to be LITERALLY NOTHING in the way.
The sun's sphere of influence extends past Pluto, it is an atmosphere of photons that acts a lot like our own atmosphere. It's why the planets orbit the direction they do, it's why they rotate the direction they do (and why Venus is having a lot of trouble spinning the wrong direction and is slowly bring corrected).Every object within the sun's larger atmosphere is being physically pulled along with it through the galaxy, so no objects would just drift away from it toward the core, they would have to be forcibly ejected with enough momentum or constant thrust to overcome both the atmosphere and the gravitational well
>>23591043How would photons change the angular momentum of a sphere?
>>23591049Every individual photon is also spinning, and most in the same direction. Photons of course penetrate all matter and these spins transfer to one another upon collision. Physical collision, between photons.The planets are just pebbles in the ocean of photons they are caught in, the sheer mass is enough to pull such things in line. Planet-sized objects are more susceptible to this direct influence than smaller ones, thanks to the larger surface area for the photons to "push" on.
>>23591083It’s crazy how popular atheism is with the more we learn about how unique our living situation is.
>>23590803Speed is relative.A stationary object relative to Earth would still be moving around the Sun at the same velocity that the Earth is orbiting the Sun at. The same logic applies.
