Timeline for The Expanse: Sustained Gs during space travel
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| Aug 8, 2022 at 10:20 | comment | added | NomadMaker | Constant thrust would cause constant acceleration. | |
| Aug 7, 2022 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1556248797809938434 | ||
| Aug 5, 2022 at 18:41 | comment | added | inorganik | @JasonGoemaat again, If you're unaware of this thrust strategy, then constant thrust doesn't make any sense. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 18:03 | comment | added | Jason Goemaat | I just boggles me. Your question states "In The Expanse series, characters experience sustained Gs during space travel, not just during acceleration, which doesn't make sense". Yet your own quotes from the books show they are under acceleration - "thrust gravity holding him gently to the floor". "Alex had the Rocinante running at three-quarters of a g" | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 15:48 | comment | added | inorganik | @JasonGoemaat & Luaan it seems obvious in hindsight but the thrust strategy used in the book isn't explained, or if it is I missed it. If someone hasn't heard of this strategy or doesn't understand "Brachistochrone trajectories", why wouldn't this be a useful question to ask? | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 11:51 | answer | added | AcePL | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 6:18 | comment | added | Luaan | @JasonGoemaat I mean, it's literally there in the very quote the OP has posted! :D | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 20:39 | comment | added | Jason Goemaat | To the people that didn't vote to close: the question seems to make an unjustified assumption that the ship isn't thrusting when it is experiencing G forces. I think the novels are quite clear that the ship is thrusting almost all the time and they only lower the thrust for certain periods to make movement easier and to give them a break from the high-G. | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 16:27 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | The first quote even explicitly states that it's thrust gravity. And the second makes it clear that they had just reduced acceleration for 2 hours so they could have dinner. | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 10:38 | answer | added | James Burke | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 8:32 | comment | added | Charon ME | I don't see where in the quoted text do you see them having gravity without acceleration | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 0:31 | answer | added | Eugene | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 19:13 | answer | added | hobbs | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 12:45 | vote | accept | inorganik | ||
| Aug 2, 2022 at 12:31 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 2, 2022 at 8:01 | comment | added | Jiminy Cricket. | The answers justify the science question. Close-vote retracted. | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 7:54 | history | edited | SQB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2022 at 7:52 | comment | added | SQB | To the close voters: this is not about real world science, but about the science in The Expanse and how space travel works in that universe. This is perfectly on topic. | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 7:36 | answer | added | Dale M | timeline score: 59 | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 5:53 | answer | added | Lexible | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 5:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 2, 2022 at 4:43 | history | edited | inorganik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Aug 2, 2022 at 4:31 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Aug 2, 2022 at 4:31 | history | asked | inorganik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |