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like in most sci fi, the inside of a space ship have gravity like earth instead of 0G. aside from creating a huge rotating cylindrical chamber how can it work or space travel will always be done on zero g?
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i don't know if it's possible outside of that concept with current tech, but the huge rotating donut base in space sounds awesome

was conceptualized by nasa way back in 1975

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus

i like how it was depicted in the elysium movie.

edit: found this on the cornell university website

Can gravity be produced uniformly over a surface, from gravitons???

Ryan: Gravitons are theoretical particles that would carry the gravitational force, the same way that photons (light particles) can be thought to carry the electromagnetic force. Gravity is very weak compared to the other forces in the universe, so its force-carrying particles are very difficult to detect. Nobody has ever detected a graviton, and the only way that we know of to produce them is to have mass, as I described above. So the only way that we know of to produce gravity uniformly from a surface would be to make that surface have a lot of mass

Can gravity be produced in a space city without rotating the whole city?

Ryan: As far as anyone knows, there is no way to produce gravity other than with mass. Things that have mass have a certain amount of gravity and will interact with other things that have mass. By rotating a city in space you would not create gravity, you would simulate it. Assuming your city was ring-shaped, and spinning fast enough, everything in it would feel a force pulling them outward, but it would be the centrifugal force, not gravity. For most purposes, it would act in a similar way, but it would not be identical. For example, if you dropped something from very "high" (close to the center of the ring) it would not hit the ground directly below it. As the falling object traveled toward the "ground" the ground would rotate underneath it. This is sometimes called the Coriolis force. If you read Arthur C. Clarke's novel "Rendezvous with Rama" he describes a city that rotates to simulate gravity, and even talks about what its weather might be like.

so i suppose without some kind of crazy technological breakthrough we will be using centrifugal force for any really long manned missions.
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