So I have what I suppose is a physics question. Suppose you have a rotating space station: A wheel such as the one in 2001, or a Stanford Torus, or a drum like Babylon 5 or The Expanse's Behemoth/Medina Station. You spin it, and you get simulated gravity; I get that part. But it's not "real" gravity; you're still technically in a weightless environment. Now if you were to jump straight up, you'd land roughly where you jumped from, not because there was any "up" or "down", but because you were basically jumping in a ballistic arc due to your angular momentum that made you land at the same point as the station rotated around to that point underneath you.
But what if you were able to jump in the opposite direction from the drum's spin, hard enough to nullify your rotational angular momentum? (Of course, jumping this fast may be a physical impossibility depending on how much "gravity" was being simulated: Babylon 5 was supposedly simulating 1G, and therefore the drum was spinning at about 60mph.) Since you were in space, would you then be floating over the rotating surface? Or would you somehow still "fall" back toward the "surface"?
But what if you were able to jump in the opposite direction from the drum's spin, hard enough to nullify your rotational angular momentum? (Of course, jumping this fast may be a physical impossibility depending on how much "gravity" was being simulated: Babylon 5 was supposedly simulating 1G, and therefore the drum was spinning at about 60mph.) Since you were in space, would you then be floating over the rotating surface? Or would you somehow still "fall" back toward the "surface"?