Artificial gravity: Difference between revisions
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The [[Halo]] Installations apparently rotate<ref>''[[Halo: The Flood]]''</ref>, and may use centrifugal force to provide at least part of their Earth-like gravity, possibly employing the same gravity generation techniques used by the Covenant, or another method, to generate the rest. | The [[Halo]] Installations apparently rotate<ref>''[[Halo: The Flood]]''</ref>, and may use centrifugal force to provide at least part of their Earth-like gravity, possibly employing the same gravity generation techniques used by the Covenant, or another method, to generate the rest. | ||
====Falsification==== | |||
However, there is scientific proof that such a method would not work, as stated in Project MARS, by Werner von Braun: | |||
"...but there is an excellent reason for not going all the way with our synthetic gravity. If you are standing on the floor, which is, of course, where a nail would come if you are thinking of Lunetta as a tire being punctured, your head is pointed directly at the center of the hub. When you move peripherally in either direction, your head must go slower than your feet to keep your body in line with the synthetic gravity. But since you are unaccustomed to such walking, because on Earth you must wander many miles for there to be an appreciable convergence of the gravitational pull, here, where it happens rapidly you tend to fall in the direction of your movement." | |||
According to this, centrifigul gravity, realistically, is impossible. | |||
==Linear Acceleration== | ==Linear Acceleration== | ||