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I'm writing a silly Sci Fi short story about the development of various "simulated gravity" devices. It'll be a future-history type story (ala Heinlein), analysing as many devices as I can dream up beyond the centripetal force simulator, which is the most obvious and cheapest simulator to build.

2007-02-11 05:10:01 · 2 answers · asked by BigKnuckle 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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there would be no peculiarities .

2007-02-11 05:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by Ajit S 1 · 0 0

None. If the rotational speed were calculated to mimic earth's gravity - Einstein stated that acceleration and gravity were identical in characteristics.

I can't speak for you, but I'm not intellectually up to arguing with Albert's logic.

The "peculiarities" might be the fact that you would be able to "adjust" the amount of "gravity" by varying the rotational speed.
For instance, if you needed to move an extremely heavy object, you could perhaps lighten it by slowing the speed and putting it in place, then resume the initial speed to again simulate the earth's gravity. That would be kind of neat - and the simulated gravity would diminish if you were to travel toward the center of the rotating station - you would be weightless in the center.

2007-02-11 13:29:43 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0 1

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