Questions tagged [artificial-gravity]
For questions about the use of technology to produce an alternative attractive force instead of gravity. Examples of alternatives might include magnetism or centripetal ("centrifugal") force. This tag is often associated with, though not dependent on, the "science-based" tag.
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What would the implications of a anti-gravity metal be? [closed]
I couldn't find a post on this, but I'm sure there's one like it somewhere.
Basically, what if there was a material that "fell" up instead of down? Let's call it Newtonium, and let's also ...
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How would artificial gravity panels affect spaceship design? [closed]
Assuming these are panels that can be plastered anywhere that would be convenient, how would spaceship design change?
Would every wall be covered with them so it's all effectively floor space?
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Why does controlling warp fields require biological intelligence?
The Namuh species consists of highly-intelligent organisms who have developed interplanetary travel and have colonized their home star system. Their science base has an excellent understanding of ...
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Pulsed Acceleration Gravity
Let's say I have a spaceship under construction with a habitation module and I want a reasonably compact means of mimicking the compressive effects of gravity on the body I have two candidate ideas ...
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Minimum circumference of a rotating spacecraft with artificial gravity [duplicate]
In a rotating spacecraft that can generate artificial gravity similar to Earth’s, what would be the minimum circumference of the rotating system that would allow humans to comfortably live and work ...
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Millitary applications of a gravity drive [closed]
Let's say gravity drives exist. This is a device that can power a spaceship by creating an artificial gravity well some distance in front of the spaceship that the spaceship perpetually falls into, ...
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Would it be possible to alter the gravitational field of a planet to one more suitable for human habitation?
I know low gravity can have negative effects on humans, and I would guess high gravity would also have negative effects. So would it be possible to increase or decrease a plant’s gravity to better ...
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Is there a way to reconcile inertial dampening fields with conservation laws?
So I wish to make a sci fi setting that uses gravity manipulation tech and inertial dampeners.
I have a number of ideas for how such a system works, and about how it should go. At the moment I'm ...
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What to do so the sun (light source) appears to be following a daily cycle on a McKendree cylinder?
In my setting, a McKendree cylinder (a rotating habitat so large it holds its own atmosphere) is orbiting the sun, with the top of the cylinder pointing at the sun.
How do we make the sun appear to ...
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Form of artificial gravity that is too energy-costly for space habitats [closed]
So, to simplify my sci-if universe, I am not putting in space habitats, but I would like some form of artificial gravity to be present for use on space stations and asteroid mines and so on. The ...
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Using fancloth to simulate gravity
Whilst pondering on forms of artificial gravity that do not involve rotation, I have returned to the idea originally proposed in this question: Could fans be used to simulate gravity?
One of the main ...
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Help with artificial gravity (yet again) in sci-fi world
I am creating a sci-fi world for tabletop RPG and I have trouble with one thing and that is artificial gravity. What I need is to come up with some ideas for in-world reasonable explanation for the ...
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Would a rotating habitat work on the surface of a moon?
While we hear a lot about rotating habitats as a space structure, I happen to know there are a large number of small worlds and moons out there cursed with low gravity, which has a similar effect to ...
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Could ferrofluids give humans magnetic properties? (Part 2 of Magnetic Gravity Series)
In my previous question (Could magnetism work in place of gravity for large bases in space?), @JBH brought up that ferrofluids in the diet of people on these stations could keep them magnetically ...
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Could magnetism work in place of gravity for large bases in space?
So, in my sci-fi future, humanity has spread across the universe, made contact with many sentient races, and advanced technology greatly.
However, very few bases in the vacuum of space can use ...
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Generating gravity
how would I generate gravity in an orbital station without spinning in a really fast circle or making it as big as a planet, or would I have to cut my losses and just moon-base my idea (I'm trying not ...
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Help me create a more believable artificial planet
Ok, I noticed some very intelligent answers on this platform and I would love your input on the planet for my book trilogy. I have been working on the blueprint, story structure, and characters for ...
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Can you build convection currents out of hollow air?
Recently, I found this image by the Redditor "Keeperofbeesandtruth":
He made it free to use, as he doesn't intend on being serious about his own project.
So here's my plan: Keep the ...
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Using Diamagnetic repulsion to help negate the affects of weightlessness
I had an idea of a chamber that an astronaut would use when they would sleep that would allow their body to experience a gravity-like force to negate the negative effects of weightlessness, (Bone or ...
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Could gravitational wave interference patterns be used for long range sensors detecting advanced spaceships?
Low energy, fantastic range
From HDE in another topic, I learned gravitational waves have an intensity which is inverse proportional to distance, not square distance, like in electromagnetic fields..
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How does a spacecraft function despite it's own (non-centrifugal) artificial gravity?
Haven't done shipbuilding in a while so let me start simple. Sci-fi spacecrafts all tend to have some unexplained method of generating artificial gravity, which keeps the crew nice and cozy. The more ...
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Artifical Onboard Gravity in a black hole's orbit
So this is a fictional question since I am dumb to science yet trying to write up a science fiction playing in the far future...but still would need the understanding of some deeper physics to be able ...
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Would A Gravity Blade Be Possible To Create?
I am wanting to use gravity based weaponry in my plot. One of my ideas was to have some sort of blade that could focus extreme gravitational forces at the edge of the blade to slice through matter (...
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How fast would the Moon (Luna) need to rotate so that anyone living in Lunar underground habitats would experience Earth-like gravity?
So I'm creating a sci-fi book, and I'd like to know a way to calculate how fast would the moon need to spin to create a certain amount of gravity, and how much energy would be required to get it to ...
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Inside an o'Neill cylinder, would an enclosed room feel the same "gravity" as an open space?
I know that the "gravity" in an O'Neill Cylinder is from Centrifugal effect. Calculated by:
F=mω^2r
F is centrifugal Force
m is the Mass
ω is the Angular velocity
r is the distance from ...
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Adapting to normal gravity after spending time in centrifugal artificial gravity
So pretty much, my world contains a lot of space travel/colonisation, and people live on ships with artificial gravity via centrifugal force. The diameter of these big spinny cylinder things (?) is ...
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How hard scifi is a graviton gravity drive?
What if, hypothetically, gravitons could be captured and stored. Then, a beam of gravitons is projected in front of the ship, each individual graviton not having much pull, but together, warping space ...
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Would a ring generating a strong gravitational pull keep those inside unharmed?
My spaceship includes a technology that creates artificial gravity (AG). For all intents and purposes the inner workings of the device are unknown. It's essentially a black box. What is understood is ...
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I want to design a realistic Anti-gravity tank, how do I go about this?
In one of my stories, some guys form the 22nd century introduce a gravity or magnetic based hover tank. The problem is I am limited to real world Armour technology and KE and CE type weapons. the KE ...
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Gravity at the interior poles inside a large spinning sphere?
From other answers I've determined that gravity on the interior of a large spinning sphere (like a Dyson Sphere) could create a desired gravity at the equator at the inner surface.
But what would ...
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Artificial Gravity Supermax
Set 50 years in the future.
A supermax or super maximum security prison is a lockup facility to hold dangerous criminals, most of them are being sentenced for at least 1000 years of life imprisonment ...
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How can you create non-centripetal artificial gravity and apply it to propel a spacecraft by riding the gravitational space time warp?
I like the idea that it is possible to use the warping of spacetime as a propelling force to move spacecraft through an independent non-centripetal artificial gravity drive.
This drive uses the ...
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Black Hole for ship artificial gravity?
So in my universe ship use thrust or spin to create gravity. But what if I could “contain” (assume I can contain it) a black hole to use it for gravity. This way ships can drift and still have gravity....
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How fast would this gravity engine let planes fly?
My advanced civilization has finally managed to get gravitational engines to a smaller and more effective state. With this new technology, planes will now fly by 'falling' in the direction they are ...
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What would combat look like inside an O'Neill Cylinder?
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If you were attempting to take over an O'Neill Cylinder without destroying it or the majority of its inhabitants/ecology how would you go about it? What benefits or detriments to an attacking ...
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How to redistribute weight on an O'Neill Cylinder? [duplicate]
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With a rotating cylinder, applying weight to one side and not the other will cause it to rotate off axis and give it a 'wobble' likely causing undesired gravitational effects. Now clearly ...
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Artificial Geodesic Planet Surface
I have a Geodesic planet roughly the same diameter of Earth but hollow. It has a surface crust approximately 20 miles deep with landmasses and oceans on its surface. It has giant reserves of "...
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How to make Space Habitats spin?
I have seen a variety of outer space megastructures across sci-fi and the minds of most astrologists, such as Bishop Rings, O'Neill Cylinders, Bernal Spheres, and much more. What most of these ...
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Is it believable to have a spaceship spin around a weight for artificial gravity?
In my narrative universe, there will be ships that use a 1g acceleration for artificial gravity. However, when they are not accelerating (whether on a longer journey at a constant velocity or simply "...
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Would an anti-gravity organ allow kaiju to avoid cube-square problems?
It is (around here, anyway) quite well known that science does not allow the existence of kaiju, mainly because of the cube-square law.
bones rip themselves out
To my understanding, this boils down ...
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Spin gravity on an abandoned ship
If a cylindrical rocket ship with a diameter of about 350 meters were spinning on its long axis, would more than just the interior surface of the outer hull have artificial gravity?
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How fast do we spin this for 'One g'
Following on from this question.
Question Context :
Mars second moon Deimos has been converted into a generation ship.
A considerable portion of its mass has been shaved off during the process &...
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Using Magnet Technology to Make a Rotating Space Station?
For an artificial gravity ring station, could you make a central hub, using similar magnet technology used to levitate magnet trains here on earth, to reduce the amount of mass rotating? My thoughts ...
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