So I was watching this lecture [here](https://youtu.be/JRZgW1YjCKk?t=2139) by Dr. Leonard Susskind and he mentions around the 35 minute mark that one way to tell the difference between if an object was in a true gravitational field and an apparent one created by acceleration was if tidal force were crushing or pulling on the object in question. How do we explain artificial gravity systems that rely on centrifugal forces then? I would assume that the centrifugal force would count as an acceleration based apparent gravity field, but objects in such a setup experience tidal forces since the apparent gravity in the center of such a setup is lower than the apparent gravity at the edge. It’s kind of confusing me a little.
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Centrifugal force is the force that acts outward on a body moving around a center arising from its own inertia.
An example would be how a wheel of a sort is always pushing outward while spinning from it’s center.
Gravity is, yenno Gravity. It is not as a force, but as a consequence of the curvature of spacetime caused by the uneven distribution of mass.
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