Members 1001gear Posted May 30, 2015 Members Share Posted May 30, 2015 You have a sphere moving aimlessly through space. How many simultaneous oscillations / rotations / revolutions can it traverse? Is it infinite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted June 16, 2015 Members Share Posted June 16, 2015 It is not infinite. It is indeterminate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted June 16, 2015 Author Members Share Posted June 16, 2015 You mean it can saturate? What happens then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Can you restate the question please, and/or provide more details of what you're inquiring about? Oscillations require a period, or an amount of time. For example, in acoustics, we deal with Hertz, or cycles per second. X cycles per Y period. Likewise, a planet might rotate on its axis X times per Y period. It might simultaneously rotate around its host star (or if it's a orphan planet, the galactic center) a different number of times over a different period of time. If it's part of a solar system, such as Earth, it's not only rotating around its home star, but also that solar system is simultaneously revolving around the galactic center, and that galaxy may in fact be orbiting or revolving around other galaxies or a common barycenter, etc. etc. As Bleep said, it's indeterminate based on the information given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted June 16, 2015 Author Members Share Posted June 16, 2015 I guess the question is how many simultaneous rotations, revolutions, vectors, trajectories, and otherwise motions through space can a single object have? Chordite says 3 - but that would be around a stationary center. For the sake of order, imagine a 3 or more dimensional Spirograph. The possibilities are infinite right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jefferson_D Posted June 27, 2015 Members Share Posted June 27, 2015 It is infinite. Because what ever reference frame you are describing the motion in, that reference frame could be moving in some bigger reference frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted June 27, 2015 Author Members Share Posted June 27, 2015 Exactly as I see it. I'm thinking too that this could possibly be represented as a single multidimensional path much as a single wave trace can represent the most complex audio. So far I'm stuck on trying to visualize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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