A few thoughts on artificial gravity. You can do it by spinning a torus roughly 447.13 meters in diameter at 2 rpm. Or, a much easier way, pipe a plasma conduit in the last 1 cm of the floor panels. With 1 meter separation, you should get an effective 1-g field generated, at the floor plate, itself. Go beyond 3 meters and the effective gravity is nil, allowing for proper deck spacing. My calculations show that 1.01 cm diam plasma conduits should, at a mean circulation rate of 6 rpm up to 600 rpm, generate the require amount of gravity. You have similar fields running in circles, every 1 meter in, from all directions. Mean plasma volume, assuming a 1% cubic reconcentration rate puts you at 182.888 liters* of continuous plasma. Of course, you would tap off of the plasma for major spacecraft/station functions, like life support, lighting (arrays) & automatic doors/internal motion sensors & cameras/mics. Maintaining the plasma at the specified level should give you a 1-g constant, once you figure out the precise circulation rate required. A grid-pulse to circle pattern or entwined spiral pattern should provide for the proper circulation pattern. All plasma movement MUST be in the same direction or the subsequent E-M field produced will create instabilities in the gravity field and local electronics. Due to proximity, EM shielding is not likely to take care of such fluctuations. It may take some time to perfect a precise pattern. The baseline design is for a disc-shaped spacecraft/station of 51.7 meters outer diameter. The plasma grid ends at the 49.7 m diam circle and begins at the 5.7 m diam core, allowing for an zero-g lift or crawlspace. Effective gravity would be toward the floor, topside and below, facing opposite directions. (Below you would be upside down compared to the top deck, just like on the Enterprise from TV and movies.) System design assumes higher-than-room temperature superconductors for the waveguide control magnets, which guide, contain, and accelerate or decelerate the plasma, according to computer control. Smaller grids could be built for artificial gravity (and for anti-grav units) though they would be more complex in execution and control. The tighter you put high-gauss/electron fields together the more interference you generate, e.g., accidentally ripping out the iron from red blood cells could be a side effect of a misaligned unit. Were talking about PLASMA running at about 1 million degrees or so, not exactly low-tech stuff. At the low power level this system would run at, theres little chance of stray particle radiation. Anti-grav units OUTSIDE of an artificial gravity system would be different, since they would tend to interact with the planetary gravity field in unpredictable ways. I this this is a partial reason for reports of strange radiation at sites of anti-gravity spacecraft takeoff/landing sites. * Actual value of 182.887573052 liters, constant. (Yes, I really do think up this sort of stuff on my own. I see future events play out in my head as if in high-def video clips. Now you may get an idea why I dont go out in public, much. Most people dont know the difference between Bremstrahlung and Synchrotron radiation, let along GCR and Solar radiation.)
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 08:26:25 +0000
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