Can artificial gravity be created in space?
I would like to ask, in space, is possible to create artificial gravity? If so, how? And if not what are we missing to create this gravity? Dave: In space, it is possible to create “artificial gravity” by spinning your spacecraft or space station. When the station spins, centrifugal force acts to pull the inabitants to the outside. This process could be used to simulate gravity. It wouldn’t be exactly the same, though, because large coriolis forces would also be present, and things would fall in curves instead of straight lines. I am reading about space colonies and I saw some pictures of what it would be like inside a cylinder shaped space station. There is land all around the inside, so if you were standing on land in it and looked up, you would be looking down on the people above you. How would the gravity work then and wouldn’t the gravity of the people above you pull you “up?” Lynn: As stated above, the method proposed for creating artificial gravity on a space station is to use a
