Is it really just an engineering problem? | The Real Physics of Artificial Gravity

Join the nerd club: patreon.com/c/u83887531/membership    / @popculturescientist   Artificial gravity is one of the oldest unsolved problems in spaceflight. We know it's essential for any trip to Mars but after a century of theory and decades of testing, we still haven’t built it. Is that because we can't? No, we definitely can! Just not the way scifi does it. This episode is about scifi tech we CAN have! I can't believe I get to say this but 'It's just an engineering problem'! Today I'll talk about what gravity is and why we can't use gravitons to 'create' it. I'll get into the scifi solution and the real physics solutions of thrust and rotation and look as some of the research happening now to make space safe and keep our gravity loving bodies healthy. Topics covered: • Gravity and the curvature of spacetime • Why our bodies need gravity to function • What scifi tells us about gravity 'generation' • The real physics we can use • How much gravity do we actually need Let me know what topic you'd like next! And if you want bonus content then join the nerd club on Patreon or through YouTube memberships. ———— Subscribe for more science in your favourite sci-fi. Things to read: What does speding a long time in space do to the human body by Richard Gray: BBC Futures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/... The DLR short-arm centrifuge at :envihab: https://www.dlr.de/en/research-and-tr... The principle of relativity by Dover books - a collection of original papers on the special and general theory of relativity translated into english