Hi there,

I'm writing a science fiction story for a game and I'd really appreciate some theoretically possible methods of creating artificial gravity on a large ship in space ( without using centrifugal force ) these idea's can be wacky and imposible for us to create now, so long as they have some theoretical posibility.

Thanks alot !

Paul J

You could be in a ship thats constantly accelerating at 9.81 m/s².
You could stick little magnets everywhere in people's bodies and then adjust a magnetic field properly.

You could stick little magnets everywhere in people's bodies and then adjust a magnetic field properly.
Or just make a suit with tiny magnets.

And for the ship to slow down, the ship would do a 180 degree spin and slow down at 9.8 m/m/s.

Originally posted by Alien Mastermind
Or just make a suit with tiny magnets.

I do not like wearing a suit but I sure would like to have that one.

If you put the magnets under the skin and then something wen't wrong you could have people floating down the street while there legs and arms exploded.:D

the concept of gravity in space? perhaps a misnomer. a book i used to read often (it was a fave) featured a atom-cluster shaped space station, with a grav cenerator at the centre. every corridor was perpendicular to the grav gen, every access tube parallel to the emanation.. (imagine it as the hub of a wheel)

and the key concept? its not gravity pulling you towards something.. its antigravity pushing you away.. a repulsive force that means that objects move away from the grav gen..
the centre control roomwas a massive sphere, and people walked all over the inner walls, cos as far as the grav gen was concerned, every direction was down :)

the other thing to note, was that the grav field got less over distance, so the outer modules were like 0.6 g, and centre 1.4g.. handy for training/fitness purposes and for placing lifeforms from various races that had different grav requirements

if anyone has read Astro Pilots, by Laura J Mixon, youll know what im talking about :)

Work backwards from Inflationary theory. Because gravity represents a proportion of potential energy allowing for something from nothing, just devise a plot device that can allow for a way to fool local space fabric that the vessel is borrowing more than its share. Hope that's suitably sci-fi for you. (I know I've horribly chopped up the theory based on my pitiful understanding from the book Inflationary Universe, but you know it is science fiction)

Wasn't that why Velcro was invented