No, it's exerted in this case by the wall behind you keeping you from flying away. If you were on a string attached to the center, it would be the string exerting the centripetal force. You keep going off on tangential paths, but the wall is there and shoves you back toward the central point. every instant. Inertia and friction and gravity are what keep you in place on the wall as the machine accelerates.
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And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack. 2,506,410.81 CAD Rack points
