Timeline for Non-Spin Artificial Gravity
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| Aug 19, 2017 at 12:48 | comment | added | Alex Celeste | Either the gravity field affects the floor as well (as natural gravity does), and the forces aren't balanced; or the artificial gravity selectively doesn't affect the floor, or whatever the floor rests on, and there isn't even a balancing aspect. I think your conclusion is backwards: it's artificial gravity that is impossible precisely because it must imply reactionless acceleration. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 19:58 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |