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paranormal78
Anyone else truly believe artificial gravity is possible for space travel or know of any other serious experiments being conducted on artificial gravity?edit on 13-3-2014 by paranormal78 because: (no reason given)
Krazysh0t
The biggest concern I have with artificial gravity is, how do you make it so that it ONLY affects the occupants of the ship you are in? What happens when your ship is flying by some random space debris and the artificial gravity field grabs the object, pulls it towards the ship, and causes it to slam into it? Then repeat this for ANY piece of space debris you happen to pass enroute to your destination.
i suppose if your ship had the right form factor. but if you turn a non spherical ship at near light speed it will experience tremendous g forces that vary with the distance from the axis of the original vector. so a linear ship would have different Gs at the nose and at every point back to the vertex of the angle and then negative Gs out the other way from the vertex.
bobs_uruncle
reply to post by stormbringer1701
There would be no additional tidal forces that I am aware of since all parts of the device would be traveling at basically the same speed. The bigger problem is micro meteors, even motionless dust become projectiles at high speeds.
Cheers - Dave
LUXUS
We cannot give anti-gravity to the world, people are not ready and will abuse the technology what we will give them instead is inertial propulsion, its cruder but will suffice for their needs.
crazyewok
paranormal78
Anyone else truly believe artificial gravity is possible for space travel or know of any other serious experiments being conducted on artificial gravity?edit on 13-3-2014 by paranormal78 because: (no reason given)
Yes you can do it right now.
You get a cylinder module and spin it and you can simulate whatever gravity you like.
Japan was going to put one on the ISS until some dumb ass bureaucrat canned it.
Its not strictly gravity but it should simulate it to a degree you wouldn't notice.edit on 14-3-2014 by crazyewok because: (no reason given)
someone identified her as Ning Li; which leads to another problem. She got the Rossi treatment from the skeptics. if their claims are true she stole money from the project and absconded back to china to avoid prosecution. so she has the fraud cloud hang over her work even if the work is legit.
bigfatfurrytexan
reply to post by stormbringer1701
I was intrigued by that snippet. like i said....it is interesting that there is a credit to "Li and Baker". I wonder who the "Li" is?edit on 3/14/2014 by bigfatfurrytexan because: (no reason given)
Arbitrageur
A small chunk of "neutron-degenerate matter" from a neutron star has as much mass as our planet and might fit under the floorboards of the space ship if it was big enough, if you could extract it from the neutron star and keep it in the neutron state, but those are some big ifs.
FinalCountdown
yeah you need to create something that has as much mass as our planet but fits under the floorboards of the space ship.
That'll do the trick
Neutron Stars
So how many sugar cubes will fit under the spaceship floorboards?
Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth.
Getting part of a neutron star off the neutron star would be difficult due to high gravity, but even if you could, once removed from the neutron star environment it would probably tend to change to normal matter, since the neutron-degenerate state was only induced by the high gravity field from which it was removed.
And even if you could do it, then accelerating your spaceship would be as hard as accelerating a planet, which is hard to do.
Podkletnov claimed to be decreasing gravity. To create "artificial gravity" you'd need to do the opposite.
stormbringer1701
NASA's attempt to replicate podkletnov were pathetic.
I think the rotating spaceship is our best bet, in fact the name of a likely candidate for interstellar travel is called the O'Neill Cylinder
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edit on 14-3-2014 by Arbitrageur because: clarification