Clarification of Approach
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Would it not be simpler to consider the rotating entity as a gyroscope ring? If so, is this the general idea?
I am a bit confused as only some to the spinning ring will generate Rindler horizons that hide the Earth. I think I need to read the paper again!
It'd certainly be fine to also craft a simulation that dealt with a gyroscopic ring. In the paper, Prof Mike proposes a spinning disk. I chose a spinning sphere; these are all valid choices.
It would probably involve fewer steps to model a spinning gyroscopic ring but it's not "simpler" -- in terms of the mathematic cases in Issue #2, they all exist in the same fashion, as the ring is a subset of the sphere.
Just realized you had a fundamental question here -- "why only some of the spinning ring will generate Rindler horizons" -- so remember that the ring is spinning, interior portions have "lower" accelerations due to this spin, exterior "higher" -- that's first point of difference -- second is direction of acceleration is, being centripetal, at any particular point on the ring, pointing towards the center, and the horizon is per Prof Mike "behind" the acceleration. E.g. the portions of the ring whose accel vector point towards the earth will "see" it just fine, the portions whose accel vector point away will "hide" it fully, and those inbetween will be some mix of hidden and seeing. In shorthand, at least :)