How gravity regulation works?
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UPDATED: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 23:48
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CrevanReaver wrote:
Friday, February 02, 2007 21:35
According to Joss Whedon's "A Brief History of the Universe circa 2507 A.D." that was in Serenity: The Official Visual Companion terraforming the new worlds involved "gravity regulation".
Here's my theory on the subject:
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Gravity regulation involves "gravity regulation satellites". These satellites employ controlled beams of graviton streams, which specifically focus interference patterns on the "gravitational core" of a celestial body. A network of many satellites doing this results in significant fluctuation in the gravity field being imposed on that body. Controlling the focal point and interference patterns of the graviton beams enables use of this fluctuation to either decrease or increase the gravitational pull of a celestial body, literally changing its surface gravity.
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I see your graviton beam theory and raise it by tachyon particles.
Hasnt anyone watched Star Trek? There is always tachyons involved...
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Quote:Tachyons only travel faster than the speed of light because they have negative rest mass. I assume theres a time expansion issue but theres nothing in hard science that really says what happens beyond lightspeed because Special Relativity says its impossible.
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I see your graviton beam theory and raise it by tachyon particles.
Hasnt anyone watched Star Trek? There is always tachyons involved...
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citizen wrote:
Sunday, February 04, 2007 13:44
Tachyons only travel faster than the speed of light because they have negative rest mass. I assume theres a time expansion issue but theres nothing in hard science that really says what happens beyond lightspeed because Special Relativity says its impossible.
and yet.. there they are.
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Quote:Yeah they have a cool sounding name. That's why every Sci-Fi show talks about Gravitons even though they don't have a clue what they are
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and yet.. there they are.
.If they were called mundaneons it would be a different story.
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
It's also likely that these same discoveries are probably behind the technology of the spaceships like Firefly that can cover very large distances very quickly -- not to mention the ships that made the trip from Earth-That-Was.
If nothing else -- assuming (and I think you have to) interplanetary distances are comparable to what they are in our own solar system -- there's no way you're getting from one planet to another as fast as Serenity tends to unless you're going pretty darn fast -- and even then, it'll take a long time unless you accelerate pretty darn hard. In which case all the crew ought to be a thin layer of yuck on the aft bulkheads... unless the gravity generator is compensating for the acceleration to produce 1-g downward at all times.
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I think it's MAGIC!
Help me Tom Cruise! Make gravity with your witchcraft!
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Originally posted by citizen:Quote:How do you know?
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Gravity isn't something that can be put into a beam.
Gravitiational Force is the attraction of two bodies with a mass.
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"It's just an Object"
But don't they have tractor beams?
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Originally posted by wratchit:
I think it's MAGIC!
Help me Tom Cruise! Make gravity with your witchcraft!
All technology is magic when viewed by less technical. But really, at every stage, as soon as we "explain" some aspect, some other unknown is thrown into the mix.
Actually, I know Tom is the current foil, but really I think we need to take a closer look at John Travolta's nostril thingies in Battlefield Earth to witness real magic in action. Ever notice how eerily close Battlefield is to Serenity in theme and mood?
"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"
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Instead of Psychlos you have the alliance.
Chiwetel looks a little like Travolta........
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
If nothing else -- assuming (and I think you have to) interplanetary distances are comparable to what they are in our own solar system -- there's no way you're getting from one planet to another as fast as Serenity tends to unless you're going pretty darn fast -- and even then, it'll take a long time unless you accelerate pretty darn hard. In which case all the crew ought to be a thin layer of yuck on the aft bulkheads... unless the gravity generator is compensating for the acceleration to produce 1-g downward at all times.
i noticed that, but also if you noticed, that they didn't go flying into the wall every time they turned around during flight, but if they were really traveling at speeds necissary to get from one planet to the next, that would crush everybody, or take a significant ammount of time to turn around, but maybe they also have some way of defeating inertia, hell it is science fiction.
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