I've wondered about this for ages. If we create a pair of flywheels that rotate in the opposite direction with the same angular momentum, but are co-located and have the same mass and inertial moment (one can imagine various ways to accomplish this, at least approximately) -- it is clear to me that there cannot be any precession forces, but, if we try to rotate the entire assembly around an axis perpendicular to the axis of flywheel rotation, will the force needed to produce this secondary rotation be the same as if the flywheels were stationary, or will it require a proportionally greater force to rotate in this way, as it does with a single flywheel?
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