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Lense Thirring Effect Applied to Small Rotating Objects

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26 December 2024

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30 December 2024

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Abstract

Objects with angular momentum (rotation) are known to exhibit an effect called LenseThirring (LT) precession whereby locally inertial frames are dragged along the rotating spacetime. Such effect has been usually associated to celestial bodies, and especially studied in the case of black holes and neutron stars, but I show here that Lense Thirring precession can be also very relevant for small objects under some specific conditions exposed in this paper. The precession effect is calculated for any object rotating around of one of its axes of symmetry, regardless of its rotation speed, mass and moment of inertia. The influence of Lense-Thirring in such objects allows to create concavities and convexities in space-time around them. As consequence, the gravity effect over them can be counteracted, experimenting effects equivalents to partial gravity, zero gravity and even anti-gravity. Different objects in morphology and density (homogeneus) are studied as examples using some simplifications but the method could be widely extended to anyone. Kerr spacetime metric is applied. Some limitations of Kerr metric are also exposed. A set of graphics showing the relevance of LT effect in function of morphology, colatitude, size, number of rpm and even kind of material are created. Finally an analysis of the results obtained is done. As consequence of them, it’s proven that LT effect should be also taken on account to be applied not only to small objects but to space crafts designs. This paper arises as a “second part” of the Zero Gravity Theory , as a consequence of have been this Theory widely proven. This study applies the same concepts involved in the Zero Gravity Theory but counteracting in this case the gravity with the consequences of applying Lense-Thirring effect instead simply spin .

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Physical Sciences  -   Applied Physics
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