• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think in that case, the earth would just depart the location of the train, leaving it drifting in space.

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      1 year ago

      I was assuming the rails are strong enough to keep the train on the Earth, but I guess infinite friction from the movement and rotation of the Earth probably isn’t survivable by any railway material. Hypothetically, if you had a material unaffected by gravity (train), and a material that is absolutely invincible (the rails, and they are anchored to the center of the Earth), now does it work?