Comments on: Free-Fall Spinning-Planet Tunnel Transportation Network /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Carla Reyes /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-15424 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:54:01 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-15424 It is very interesting to think about the possibilities for future travel. Am I understanding correctly that these would be transportation tunnels through the center of the Earth?

]]> By: Carla Reyes /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-27490 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:54:01 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-27490 It is very interesting to think about the possibilities for future travel. Am I understanding correctly that these would be transportation tunnels through the center of the Earth?

]]> By: Cody Leary /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-15423 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:06:36 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-15423 Interesting work Yuchen! What do the different colors mean for the tunnel paths?

]]> By: Cody Leary /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-27489 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:06:36 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-27489 Interesting work Yuchen! What do the different colors mean for the tunnel paths?

]]> By: John Lindner /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-15422 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 03:35:30 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-15422 I absolutely love how the spiky curved free-fall in the rotation frame corresponds to the smooth harmonic-oscillator ellipse in the inertial reference frame — what a great perspective change!

]]> By: John Lindner /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-27488 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 03:35:30 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-27488 I absolutely love how the spiky curved free-fall in the rotation frame corresponds to the smooth harmonic-oscillator ellipse in the inertial reference frame — what a great perspective change!

]]> By: John Lindner /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-15421 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 03:34:11 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-15421 Existence of periodic free-fall tunnels that reach any planetary latitude for specific spins and masses is wonderful, but would Earth’s spin need to be changed to accommodate them?

]]> By: John Lindner /2021/04/11/yuchen-gan/#comment-27487 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 03:34:11 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7183#comment-27487 Existence of periodic free-fall tunnels that reach any planetary latitude for specific spins and masses is wonderful, but would Earth’s spin need to be changed to accommodate them?

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