Recent content by pegamin

What can I say. I'm in complete awe. I'm so glad my silly idea is giving ground to such serious ones. Please, keep it going... my sense of gratitude is accelerating at a rate of many billion Newtons/sec.

Wow. Thank you for your rapid feedback, that leaves me rather speechless... You always give me a lot to think about. As for my story, for the moment I think I'm going to stick to your previous advice; "Not being slavishly hard-SF does not detract from a story, it’s quite orthogonal to it". So...

A very good point, Ryan. So, following this completely un-scientific train of thought, let's consider your idea (that probably has enough juice in it as to open a dedicated thread). Could we conceive then that: this not large but continuous force of the person interacting with the Earth indeed...

Excellent! Thanks a lot for your useful answers, that actually trash my initial conception. Because yes, I'd like to stay somewhere near actual physics. I mentioned Andromeda for no particular reason, but it could actually be a gravity pull from any other galaxy or celestial body, even farther...

I know, it's coming up... but it's going to take a while, I even fear I might not be around to witness the event. But in the meantime, my character's still suffering his gravity problem... and since his position according to Andromeda varies constantly (sometimes Planet Earth is between his...

Hello, I'm new at the forum. I'm a science-fiction writer. My question then concerns an imaginary, fictional situation. I'll try to be brief but it's not easy to explain: Let's imagine that a character who lives on Earth is strongly attracted by the gravitational force of some other celestial...