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- Figuring out how biological strength should vary in High G's
This is a basic conundrum that has bothered me for years:
if you or a species like you is "adapted" to Twice Gravity (or any other multiple of 9.8m/2 squared) and your life functions and capacities are near identical,
How strong/fast are you? Compared to 1G?
See, this is the issue of mass vs. weight, power lifting vs. long distance jumping. Standing freely without collapsing under your own weight, vs. sprinting.
Gravity exerts itself on all your molecules equally, not just the ones on the surface. If something is 200kg, or about 440lbs in 1 Earth Gravity, it should theoretically be 880lbs in 2G's,
but in 2G's how much harder would you or any machine have to throw it in order for it to traverse the same distance?
Practically speaking, if a human began with a 4.54 kg stone,
which is about 10 lbs on earth, in 2 Gs, that object is "20 lbs", but wouldn't the Arc of hurling it Require FOUR, not TWO times the kinetic energy to produce the same acceleration, and wouldn't the parabola be shaped differently?
Thus I began to question, would someone who could jump 2 meters from standing, in order to also jump 2 meters from standing in 2Gs, require the same strength that would propel them 4 meters on Earth but also lift 4, not two times as much?
Thus double vs. quadruple problem leaves me confused. How strong/fast would a humanoid have to be?
Would it be some strange hybrid like x2.83 (the multiplicative average of x2 and x4?)? Would everyone just be exponentially stronger but the same speed, or gradually slower but the same strength?
in 10Gs,
would a person have the power to move "10 times faster", on Earth, and thus be 100 times stronger,
or would they be "10 times stronger", on Earth, but only 3 times faster on Earth, and move 1/3rd an Earther's speed on their 10G Homeworld?
if you or a species like you is "adapted" to Twice Gravity (or any other multiple of 9.8m/2 squared) and your life functions and capacities are near identical,
How strong/fast are you? Compared to 1G?
See, this is the issue of mass vs. weight, power lifting vs. long distance jumping. Standing freely without collapsing under your own weight, vs. sprinting.
Gravity exerts itself on all your molecules equally, not just the ones on the surface. If something is 200kg, or about 440lbs in 1 Earth Gravity, it should theoretically be 880lbs in 2G's,
but in 2G's how much harder would you or any machine have to throw it in order for it to traverse the same distance?
Practically speaking, if a human began with a 4.54 kg stone,
which is about 10 lbs on earth, in 2 Gs, that object is "20 lbs", but wouldn't the Arc of hurling it Require FOUR, not TWO times the kinetic energy to produce the same acceleration, and wouldn't the parabola be shaped differently?
Thus I began to question, would someone who could jump 2 meters from standing, in order to also jump 2 meters from standing in 2Gs, require the same strength that would propel them 4 meters on Earth but also lift 4, not two times as much?
Thus double vs. quadruple problem leaves me confused. How strong/fast would a humanoid have to be?
Would it be some strange hybrid like x2.83 (the multiplicative average of x2 and x4?)? Would everyone just be exponentially stronger but the same speed, or gradually slower but the same strength?
in 10Gs,
would a person have the power to move "10 times faster", on Earth, and thus be 100 times stronger,
or would they be "10 times stronger", on Earth, but only 3 times faster on Earth, and move 1/3rd an Earther's speed on their 10G Homeworld?