what would happen if a carbon fiber rope was tied to the empire state building and spanned to space a few thousand miles away would it fall back to earth, would the building be pulled into space?
What if the building was in a net of this fiber, so that the pull was distributed? Would it stay anchored? If it did, would this 1000-mile fiber start spooling around the Earth as the planet rotated?
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-how tense is the rope?
-what, if any, pull is the object in space having on the building?
-under what power is the object in space staying there? Is it's orbit geosynchronous?
so your saying if the end of the rope was any distance into space lets say a light year away it would fall back to earth?
(the rope being unbreakable that is)
I mean, how loose is the rope? Is it pulled tight, or is there slack in it?
yes, but these things generally have some type of propulsion systems within them to make the corrections necessary to keep them in orbit. Satelites that don't, generally are in a retrograde orbit such that it would take them a long time to actually return to earth.
What is important, while objects like the rings of saturn or others may actually be able to circle a planet indeffinatly, it is a very delicate balance. Further, none of these things have part of themselves attached to earth. The fact that the rope is attached to earth means that it will be under the power of earth's gravity, and I don't suspect rope length would change that at all.
the rope is really insignificant in this problem, dude
you need to define what it is anchored to more than anything
if we consider that all the space between earth and the end of the rope was empty and the rope itself is not moving at escape velocity, yes
realistically, it would probably end up caught up in the gravitational forces of the sun or galaxy, which would overpower the small amount that a single end would recieve on earth. At this point though, we would probably have to take the mass of the rope itself into consideration (it would generate some gravity on its own)
but really, it is more important that you describe what you think the rope is anchored to
I imagine it would take an incredible amount of force to pull something as large as the Empire State Building into space. So unless the cable is being towed by some super space shuttle I don't think the building will even jiggle.
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aside from that, the rock would seem to have more density, and given it is a single piece of iron, rather than assembled bricks, as the rope was pulled in different directions it would, depending on the momentum of the rock, either break the anchor out of the empire state building (if the rock is moving) or pull the rock to earth (if it were not). I guess if there rock were in some type of geosynchronous orbit with the building, and no momentum were generated either toward or away from earth, it might find a type of equilibrium, though I think this would only be a theoretical possibility, impossible in practice.
It is possible that the drag of the rock would put enough strain on the anchor at either end, and might break it off there. Given this is space, I find this unlikely.
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