Now lets see if you can extend that with a bit more intelligence than Paul. Assuming you and the accelerometer are in the same reference frame, can you be accelerating if the accelerometer measures zero?
oh please let me attempt an intelligent answer to this mr wizard.
Assuming you and the accelerometer are in the same reference frame
if myself and the accelerometer are in the same reference
frame then it would certainly appear to me that we were
both accelerating around the planet as we both would observe things such as the stars rising , crossing the sky , and disappearing over the horizon
... this would repeat every day leading me to gain the
knowledge that the earth that I and the accelerometer are
on is not flat and is rotating.
thus from this gathered data I could easily conclude that
I and my accelerometer would obviously be traveling in a circle and that even though we could not measure any acceleration that would in no way mean that we are not accelerating because basic physics math tells me that I and my accelerometer are accelerating , and that there is no need
to include any linear acceleration or any fictional forces to determine that I am accelerating around the planet.
I could simply draw a circle on the ground with a stick.
knowing that I must accelerate the point of the stick
towards the center of the planed circle clearly tells me
that I too must be accelerating ... else the line I draw
would not form a circle.
you always come up with some really stupid questions
when you are found to be wrong in an attempt to cover
up the errors in your knowledge base , if you would have gained
some measure of knowledge before you flooded your
brain with fantasy you might have been capable of not
making so many mistakes that you have to cover up.
