artificial gravity

created by robwicks

(thing) by robwicks (17.2 hr) (print) ? I like it! Mon Jun 19 2000 at 20:12:18

Unlike real gravity, artificial gravity is merely a simulacrum. The normal postulated methods for creating it involve massive spaceships being rotated so that the centripetal force (there is no such thing as centrifugal force) acting upon the passengers gives them a sense of up and down. This is how gravity would be provided in Larry Niven's fictional Ringworld.

centripetal force	Ringworld	acceleration compensator	All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
The Far Call	simulacrum	Graviton	centrifugal force
Bebop	warp drive	guerrilla warfare	Wernher von Braun
Flannery O'Connor	Continental Class installations: Water cycle	Larry Niven	Galactic Civilizations: Tech Tree
Galactic Civilizations	Skanatra

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