Theoretical Sci-fi Physics.

[Malenfant]

Originally Posted by Hilary_155

With regard to gravity plating in a ship as well as anti-gravity...

Is it assumed that this artificial gravity follows the inverse squared law? Is the pull stronger on your feet than on your head? Does it extend outside the ship? Do the ships collect dust gravitationally held to their hulls?

I don't know about the "official" explanation, but the only way for any artificial gravity plate tech to make sense or me is that it has to be generating a pseudoforce, like centrifugal force. i.e. you have one set of plates at the 'bottom' of the ship, and however it works, it only affects what is enclosed by the hull of the ship. Once you leave the ship (specifically the confines of the enclosed hull, which presumably has a 'grid' that generates the pseudoforce within it), you don't feel the artificial gravity anymore.

Otherwise you have a ship radiating a g-field of 1g that affects everything (spaceships, asteroids, planets, etc) within a rather large distance, which is not a good thing. ;)