That would be different than real world gravity fields work. Gravity is a stronger force on your feet than your head when you are standing up. The difference is minor but the field is not uniform and there is a stress that is applied against an object in a non-uniform field such as gravity. This is why we do have a Roche limit and Saturn has rings and Niven wrote "Neutron Star". You do feel a "force" in free fall, it's just in free fall around the earth the gradient isn't strong enough to really feel. If you were in free fall around a small black hole the gradient would tear you apart. At 250 km over the earth's mean radius, an additional 5 meters would result in a difference of acceleration of about 0.0137 mm/s^2. Not huge, but detectable.
I had wondered about gravity fields applied by deck plating, and I don't think it's ever been spelled out how they work or at what rate the field falls off. If the field is "uniform" does it cut off sharply - like over the distance of a Planck length?
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On 27 Feb 2018 at 18:53, Richard Aiken wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Bruce Johnson
Thing is, inertial damping and artificial gravity, which are also
canon in the LBB´s are essentially just that: attractive gravity
control.
Agree about artificial gravity.
But inertial damping could be "pusher" fields just as easily as it
could be "puller" fields. In "actuality," it's probably both, in order
to lower the stress on what's being manipulated, by spreading the
forces involved out among as many vectors as possible.
Gravity (and one would assume, these fields as well) doesn't "stress
things that way because it acts on each particle of an object
"equally".
That's why you don't feel any gravitational force when in free fall.
What you normally experience as gravity is your body being
prevented from responding to gravity by the ground/floor.
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com
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