That's why "gravity" in a rotating cylinder is jut a simulation: whereas a ball thrown there feels no force, a ball thrown on earth still feels the force of gravity. That's why the ball is returning to you on earth but not in that cylinder. Coriolis force on earth, however, is neglectable on small scales. It is relevant globally for the way wind and water stream on earth.
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IT security specialist, Physicist by education, believing in God as for the exceptional harmony of the laws of nature to create and support life.
I remember reading a science fiction story once about people living in a rotating space cylinder, and the coming-of-age rite for young people was to get up to the cylinder’s center, then “jump” while wearing a glider suit. The author described their…
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