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BECAUSE of the widespread interest in measuring forces between spinning cylinders and disks1,2 and the speculative nature of the conclusions reached in previous discussions, we have made a quantitative calculation of the magnitude of the forces. As in earlier calculations3, our approach is based on a weak field low velocity (EIH) approximation to general relativity. By methods familiar from potential theory in electrodynamics we first compute the first order corrections to a fiat space metric due to the presence of a spinning cylinder.
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O'CONNELL, R., RASBAND, S. Lense-Thirring Type Gravitational Forces Between Disks and Cylinders. Nature Physical Science 232, 193–195 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci232193a0
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