Timeline for How does a spacecraft function despite it's own (non-centrifugal) artificial gravity?
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 23:24 | history | edited | PipperChip | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Addressed being close/far from the generator.
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 23:13 | comment | added | PipperChip | @KerrAvon I assumed people inhabited the "nice" area where these effects would cancel out. You are not wrong about some very extreme effects when outside this zone. It certainly does not counteract my conclusion about rotation: it does not really help at all. I'll add to my answer. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 22:43 | comment | added | KerrAvon2055 | If the artificial gravity falls off in an inverse squared (or even inverse) relationship then "No" to your first point - in a spinning ship people and objects close to the core will be strongly affected by the "gravity" and barely affected by centrifugal force, at large radius the core's effect will be trivial and centrifugal force significant, with nasty tidal effects. See this xkcd what if for some consequences what-if.xkcd.com/68 | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 22:26 | history | answered | PipperChip | CC BY-SA 4.0 |