If so, how?
2007-11-10 17:04:35 · 16 answers · asked by MizzyMac 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Well, i think the idea that a spinning space station creating "gravity is still fictional" I also see that some of you are saying centrifugal force, but centrifigal force is acually FICTITIOUS!!! It is all Inertia, scientists thought if there was a force pulling inward (Centripital force) there has to be a force that pulls outward.
A good example that centrifugal force is false is when you have a little ball in your hand. If you move it around in a circle and let it go, it should keep on going around in a circle (if centrifugal force was correct) but it doesn't. When you let it go, it leaves straight, which proves that it is false. It is all inertia, the ball wants to go straight when you are moving it, but your hand is in the way and force it to move in a circle.
This is why i question the idea of a space station creating "gravity" by spinning in a circular motion.
I know what you guys mean by gravity, its not acually gravity, but you get planted to the floor. I gotcha ;O
2007-11-10 20:09:35 · answer #1 · answered by Randall 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. If it is built in a ring shape and it spins, forcing things to the outside of the ring. The outer edge of the ring would be the floors. The movie 2001 shows two examples of this kind of simulated gravity.
Concerning a couple of previous answers, the spinning does not create gravity, on a space station or on the earth. It creates inertia, centrifugal force. And you and increase or decrease it by what speed of rotation you choose. You can easily get 1 G on even a moderately large space station. It has to be designed for it, though.
2007-11-10 17:10:59 · answer #2 · answered by Brant 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you rotate the space station about an axis, you will have simulated gravity at any radius from the axis. The further from the axis you are, the greater the simulated gravity.
For a great example of this, watch the portions of the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" that show the space station.
2007-11-10 17:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by LonHolder 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Since gravity is already effecting the space station, a better question is how to add another force to take the astronauts out of free fall. As far as that goes centrifical force from the center could create an alternate "Gravity", but it would be outward and you would stick to the walls.
2007-11-10 17:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by Patrick M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure if it's possible on current space stations. This is just a guess, but I think the only way it is possible is to use centrifugal force. This meaning it would have to be spinning. Only then, would you stick to the surface in which the centrifuge is pushing toward. The vessel would have to be similar to a hamster wheel in form. You could stand there while the wheel spins and feel "gravitized" but if you looked out the window you might get hella dizzy yo.
2007-11-10 17:14:06 · answer #5 · answered by viperware 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. You rotate the space station. Angular momentum will pull everything to the outer walls, simulating gravity nicely.
2007-11-10 17:14:38 · answer #6 · answered by Carl Hamlin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has been situation of experiments on a small scale (one guy at a time on a rotating platform like a bedframe). even though it has no longer been positioned right into an area station software. there is not any longer sufficient room interior any of the modules to spin super gadgets. so a techniques as moving an entire module or 2 on super palms, there is not any longer sufficient power in the area station to stand up to the forces and vibrations this could reason. additionally, because of the fact the station might desire to shelter a definite physique of strategies to the solar to maintain the image voltaic panels illuminated for capacity, the gyroscopic action of a significant rotating factor or mass could make that very complicated.
2016-10-02 02:03:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to set the station spinning on an axis. Unless it were quite large, that'd be impractical. If you did so, the outer wall of the station would be highest in artificial gravity while it would get less as you approached the center whee the axis is.
2007-11-10 17:12:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is possible. This is down my rotating a space station, this creates artificial gravity albeit a small percent than that is felt on earth.
2007-11-10 17:08:30 · answer #9 · answered by limitxx25 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure.. just not on the one that's out there now...
you need to spin it like a top and be on the inside track
the faster you spin it. the more gravity you have...
have you not been on one of those wheels at the carnival where u stand up on the wall ,, they spin it around and drop the floor and you are glued to the wall..
same principle
2007-11-10 17:08:42 · answer #10 · answered by pokerfaces55 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋