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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
If your fiction needs it, make it so.
Such artificial gravity works perfectly well in Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, etc. ad nauseum. No-one needs to explain how it works (nor can they ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
Newton's law of gravitation states the force that exists between two masses is based upon the magnitude of those two masses and the distance between them. The force is inversely proportional to the ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
It would be conceivable, which is the important part. You are hypothesizing a new development in scientific knowledge.
A simple way would be to introduce a rule that the effect is only short-range. ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
There is no modern day Physics-based answer to this question
By definition, artificial gravity does not work in the same way as the one, and only one, way we know to create gravity - having mass. ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
If the spacecraft used rotation as a means of generating artificial gravity then the space craft need not be that massive nor have any significant gravitational field but those aboard would still be ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
Normal gravity has monopole sources. Just assume that artificial gravity is an artificially generated dipole e.g. by pair production of mass and "anti-gravity" (repulsing) particles stored ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
What if instead of the gravity being short ranged. You had an anti gravity shielding on the hull that cancelled out the gravity.
This neatly solves the problem of gravity escaping, but also creates ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
There is no known way to have artificial gravity. Gravity is tied to mass.
There are ways to have simulated gravity which are only local, but because they're not 'true' gravity they won't affect ...
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Would Artificial Gravity With Short Range Be Possible?
If space is a transport medium for the information of gravitational attraction and you want to hack the transport medium to create the false information of mass to be transported, while the mass does ...
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Gravity on an Orbital Ring
An orbital ring is 2 separate rings. The inner ring spins faster than orbital velocity producing a centrifugal force that magnetically pushes the outer large ring away from Earth's gravity. The larger ...
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