In Star Wars there is gravity inside of the Death Star. Is there a way to create gravity in a space craft?

Question

In Star Wars there is gravity inside of the Death Star. Is there a way to create gravity in a space craft?

Answer 1

There is no known way to create artificial gravity on a spacecraft except by spinning it, which is why 99% of science fiction movies are fake. Or maybe 98%. Babylon 5 used spinning space ships as well as Space Odyssey: 2001. Also Mission to Mars and Red Planet. Even Armageddon had a spinning space station but the scientific innacuracies in that movie rules out any serious consideration.

Answer 2

Yes and no. True artificial gravity is still very much in the realm of science fiction. But with current technology, you can (in principle) simulate it with centrifugal force: spin the spacecraft. Wernher von Braun included this in his proposal for a giant ring space station. The Soviets planned an artificial gravity experiment for one of the later Voskhod missions (which never flew), keeping a tether between the capsule and the last booster stage, then rotating the two around each other. Gemini 11 later actually made such an attempt, using the Agena Target Vehicle rather than the booster stage. It had partial success, but just barely--the astronauts managed to generate .00015G, probably just enough to get a pen to fall faster than a feather would on Earth. Or maybe less. I've read that one thing they learned was that doing that was worse than leaving them in free fall, that the constant rotation disoriented the astronauts.



For training, both the US and Russian space programs use centrifuges to simulate high gravity. To try to simulate weightlessness, they have two methods. For long-term training exercises, they use a giant swimming pool. For shorter things (like testing people's susceptibility to space sickness) they have a special plane that flies up high, then drops like a rock for 45 seconds or so. They do a specified number of these parabolic arcs before returning to base.

Answer 3

We really have no actual way to create true gravity...as in a force due to mass....other than make the spacecraft impractically massive.





When you see sci-fi movies and people walk around the spacecraft...are you sure it is possible because of gravity? What if the spacecraft is accelerating, and they are walking on the wall just behind the rocket thrusters?



Or, what if they are rotating a wheel, the centrifuge method. The occupants are accelerating inward, and because the outside wall pushes them inward, they are under the illusion that gravity is outward.

Answer 4

synthetic Gravity. once you're going around in a merry flow around, you sense a pushed to the facets. extensive area ships are many times shown around which rotate transforming into a synthetic gravity. while the merry flow around rotates in the international your weight doubles, while they flow in area your weight will become comparable as in the international. yet you're able to as properly see some area-ships that are actually not around or rotating yet have the synthetic gravity. properly shall we are saying the Hollywood human beings dint hassle to shield any theories, they only left it on our mind's eye. I certainly have not are available the time of certainly one of these thank you to have synthetic gravity in a small area deliver that's stagnant or has consistent speed in area. remember, you ought to regulate the synthetic gravity with the acceleration/deceleration in the course of the area holiday so the gravity is comparable. Its kinda stupid how the entire team falls while hit with the aid of laser no count if it is synthetic gravity and quite hassle-free to comply with keep away from any fluctuations. in any case, that's how human beings understood being hit, else it would be very uninteresting.

Answer 5

Yes. Centripetal force. You spin the spacecraft and everything stick to the inside

walls just like gravity.

Answer 6

Centrifugal force is the most practical way, though it requires much stronger materials than what today's space stations are made of. Stronger means heavier, and the cost of lifting a large rotating space station into orbit is much greater than what we are now spending on the ISS.



Farther in the future, ships on long journeys might use their engines to accelerate straight ahead for long periods. In that case, the crew would gravitate toward the rear of the craft.



Einstein proved that acceleration is equivalent to gravity, so both engine thrust and centrifual acceleration are true gravity, even though they are not caused by the presence of a huge mass.