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codethief on Sept 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: New world record with an electric racing car: From...

Interesting thought but I'm not entirely convinced yet: 10m/s² down (along your body axis) is not the same as 10m/s² in any other direction. I would assume the body is perfectly able to distinguish between those.

jameshart on Sept 14, 2023 [–]

Yes, you know if you are standing up or lying down. But your body doesn’t interpret either of those sensations as movement.

If you flip from one to the other suddenly, your brain figures out ‘we’re rotating’ pretty quickly though.

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