It is said that a spinning space station could simulate gravity. Why wouldn’t you just be hovering inside a spinning compartment?
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Once you’re spinning with it (as you will be), it takes an inhumanly strong leap to remove your momentum and get stuck hovering.
If it was a sphere or closed disc and you’re not touching anything, yea. The idea is to use a doughnut shape for the habitable sections.
Centripetal force(actually change in angular momentum).
Objects in motion will stay in motion so when you drag yourself up to speed with the rotating space station your body will want to continue going in a straight line, because the hull of the ship is in the way you will continuously be pressed into the side of the ship giving the sensation of gravity.
By spinning, you would be forced towards the walls of the space station by centrifugal force. Further, by spinning at a certain speed, you can produce enough force so that it feels like the usual gravitational force you feel on Earth.
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