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topicmaker
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 Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject: First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity |
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Have scientists been able to artificially generate a gravitational field ? Researchers at the
European Space Agency believe so. Their experiment involves a ring of superconducting material
rotating up to 6 500 times a minute. Superconductors are special materials that lose all electrical
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miglaugh
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"Although just 100 millionths of the acceleration due to the Earth's gravitational field"
They're talking about Gs there right? If so it doesn't seem like that would attract much of anything. But like anything else they could probably fine tune it and advance the method and materials over the next 100 years and maybe one day be in the range close enough to 1G to be able to counter the muscle atrify effect of 0G. I take it when they say it's much much more powerful (ha!) then what Einstien predicted they must mean that he pridicted no additional gravitational force aside from the mass of the matter itself. Superconductors rock! |
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