The space station in 2001 A Space Odyssey had the gravity problem solved. This should have been the way the International Space Station should have been designed.
Sure. Add water and stir, don’t shake.
Theoretically, yes. Practically, no.
Have the Supreme Court declare its “right” to existence, and it will be so.
The space station in 2001 A Space Odyssey had the gravity problem solved. This should have been the way the International Space Station should have been designed.
No problem...just spin the space station you are visiting.
Manned rockets accelerate at roughly 2G for 8 minutes to reach orbit. To do this requires about 6,000,000 pounds of Saturn 5 rocket, most of it discarded/burned during the process.
To SWAG the “160 hours to Jupiter” trip, we’d need something on the order of 7.2 billion pounds of rocket ... and that’s just for a single one-way trip.
I’d compute the mass required (assuming perfect E=mc^2 conversion) for a 1G 100 light year trip, but for the moment I’m fried.
Suffice to observe that space travel, at speeds fitting comfortably into human lifespans, is EXTREMELY expensive.
Gravity is not a state property. It is a happenstance, merely a result of other processes. Solve those processes (well, one of them) and you have the ability to control a gravitational field. I even developed an experiment to test the hypothesis. Anyone have a billion dollars I can borrow?
What they don’t tell you about rotating rings are things lie vertigo and the Coriolis effect that make them next to worthless.
Like the Higgs Boson who walked into church and said you can't have Mass without me! (Bada-bump)
Mass or acceleration (spinning works). No other way to create gravity.
An argument has been made that gravity is virtual, not a thing in itself, but an effect caused by the curvature of space by mass.
To start with, under many circumstances, time and space seem to be two dimensions of the same thing. Change one and you change the other. And if you are familiar with Einstein’s two dimensional grid model of space, you know that mass acts upon space by deforming it, also deforming time in the process.
The hard part, much more difficult to conceptualize, is that the grid is actually three dimensional, so bodies with mass deform space all around it, towards it. And this deformation of space and time is such that it seems to do what gravity does, but without the need for gravity.
In any event, this perhaps makes creating “artificial gravity” easier, because instead of manipulating gravity, you manipulate space time like mass does.
Gravity from one million light years away effects us, so imagine traveling on
a wave of gravity to anywhere at any speed. Watch out for that one speck of
dust at high speeds though, one particle and it's curtains.