Comment Re:Artificial Gravity? (Score 1, Insightful) 323
In another book of Arthur Clack he proposes an entirely different way to get artificial gravity.
The spacecraft can constantly accelerate with acceleratin equal to 1g. This means that the articicial gravity force will be directed about the spacecrafts axis (immagine a simple rocket here) and the experiance of being inside would be like in a several story building with the lower levels located right above the engine. When the spacecraft needs to stop there would be a short period of 0g during which the whole ship changes direction to 180 degrees.
The obvious drawback is that we don't have enough power (and reactive mass to throw backwards) to constantly accelerate a craft all the way yo Mars and beyond.
A possible solution would be to have a nuclear reactor and use superheated water or a gass of some sort as fuel. In this way we get very high acceleration with relatively little "reactive mass". (in the book they used a small black whole that could accelerate the hydrogen fuel to speeds close to the speed of light :)
All of this being just a theory though. I got no idea if it can realy work.
The spacecraft can constantly accelerate with acceleratin equal to 1g. This means that the articicial gravity force will be directed about the spacecrafts axis (immagine a simple rocket here) and the experiance of being inside would be like in a several story building with the lower levels located right above the engine. When the spacecraft needs to stop there would be a short period of 0g during which the whole ship changes direction to 180 degrees.
The obvious drawback is that we don't have enough power (and reactive mass to throw backwards) to constantly accelerate a craft all the way yo Mars and beyond.
A possible solution would be to have a nuclear reactor and use superheated water or a gass of some sort as fuel. In this way we get very high acceleration with relatively little "reactive mass". (in the book they used a small black whole that could accelerate the hydrogen fuel to speeds close to the speed of light
All of this being just a theory though. I got no idea if it can realy work.
