It also makes a really good pulse drive; you hyper accelerate plasma down a series of ever increasing speed magnets out of the rear of a space ship. Would kick the hell out of Orion..
The question is quite simple where in the universe I would be completely at rest. Not moving at all. I ask the question because if everything is accelerating from a single point does that mean my mass is greater than if I was totally stationary? If the whole universe suddenly became stationary...
? I said it "would" work :)
"I understand that they use centrifugal force to adjust the international space station; I can understand this working, as a space station has a certain amount of attraction to the Earth in other words sharing its gravity."
Ahh that makes total sense theoretically then if you stood on the inside of the cylinder rotating and suddenly the cylinder decided to disappear you would be flung out into space in a perfectly straight line and therefore the force I'm trying to get to grips with is constantly attempting to...
I didn't say that it did what I said was that the gravity initially pins you to the floor and as the floor starts to rotate gravity both holding it down and at the same time the base spinning will force you to the side. Take away the base standing on the grass with the cylinder rotating around...
stevendaryl You don't need anything attracting the water to the bucket. What you do need is a way to get the water in the bucket spinning. So, for example, if you put a lid on the bucket, then spin it, the water will be forced to the bottom of the bucket. At that point, you can take the lid off...
In which direction is the force pushing you down, I know that sounds like I have answered my own question, but you are saying you will forced against the wall of the cylinder, but the essentially the cylinder is spinning away towards you depending on which direction you are looking. So what you...
I still believe, in zero gravity, that there has to be a physical attraction between the cylinder wall and the object and that nothing would gravitate towards the walls just because it’s spinning.
Yes I do understand that , but that depends on gravity being present, same scenario but in zero gravity, if you spin the bucket with water in it the water would simply float away into space and all you would have is a spinning bucket. Nothing is attracting the water to the bucket. On Earth the...
Hi I’m having a problem with a concept, well actually with a force. After watching a program about sending man to the other end of the galaxy in which a huge tube was created in where people lived and gravity was simulated by spinning it and producing Centripetal force. My problem is that I...