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No I mean centrifugal. It's a fictitious force, an artifact of choosing a rotating non inertial coordinate frame.

Gravity arises similarly, by being in a non inertial frame induced by mass energy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_force

This was the key insight behind Einstein attempting to get general relativity working.




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