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I think Susanne's answerSusanne's answer has covered most of it.

The human body is actually able to cope with a wide range of gravity already, as can be seen in any number of fairground rides where huge numbers of humans experience increased or reduced gravity with few injuries or bad effects.

Living long term in altered conditions has much more profound consequences but if you spend most of your time at 1G and then occasionally venture out I would not expect any serious problems. Movement in different gravity would take some time to get used to, especially moving in variable gravitational fields. That would be a learned skill in of itself and I'd expect it to take more than 4 or 5 steps.

In fact that's an area where someone used to the effects could have a huge advantage, if they were moving through areas where the gravity changed frequently. The native would adapt without thinking while someone not used to the effects would need to adapt each time it changed, and then as soon as they learned to run the gravity would change once more and they would be stumbling along again.

I think Susanne's answer has covered most of it.

The human body is actually able to cope with a wide range of gravity already, as can be seen in any number of fairground rides where huge numbers of humans experience increased or reduced gravity with few injuries or bad effects.

Living long term in altered conditions has much more profound consequences but if you spend most of your time at 1G and then occasionally venture out I would not expect any serious problems. Movement in different gravity would take some time to get used to, especially moving in variable gravitational fields. That would be a learned skill in of itself and I'd expect it to take more than 4 or 5 steps.

In fact that's an area where someone used to the effects could have a huge advantage, if they were moving through areas where the gravity changed frequently. The native would adapt without thinking while someone not used to the effects would need to adapt each time it changed, and then as soon as they learned to run the gravity would change once more and they would be stumbling along again.

I think Susanne's answer has covered most of it.

The human body is actually able to cope with a wide range of gravity already, as can be seen in any number of fairground rides where huge numbers of humans experience increased or reduced gravity with few injuries or bad effects.

Living long term in altered conditions has much more profound consequences but if you spend most of your time at 1G and then occasionally venture out I would not expect any serious problems. Movement in different gravity would take some time to get used to, especially moving in variable gravitational fields. That would be a learned skill in of itself and I'd expect it to take more than 4 or 5 steps.

In fact that's an area where someone used to the effects could have a huge advantage, if they were moving through areas where the gravity changed frequently. The native would adapt without thinking while someone not used to the effects would need to adapt each time it changed, and then as soon as they learned to run the gravity would change once more and they would be stumbling along again.

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I think Susanne's answer has covered most of it.

The human body is actually able to cope with a wide range of gravity already, as can be seen in any number of fairground rides where huge numbers of humans experience increased or reduced gravity with few injuries or bad effects.

Living long term in altered conditions has much more profound consequences but if you spend most of your time at 1G and then occasionally venture out I would not expect any serious problems. Movement in different gravity would take some time to get used to, especially moving in variable gravitational fields. That would be a learned skill in of itself and I'd expect it to take more than 4 or 5 steps.

In fact that's an area where someone used to the effects could have a huge advantage, if they were moving through areas where the gravity changed frequently. The native would adapt without thinking while someone not used to the effects would need to adapt each time it changed, and then as soon as they learned to run the gravity would change once more and they would be stumbling along again.