• Question: how do you make gravity?

    Asked by Luke to Agata, Chris, John, Kirstin, Michael on 21 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: John Allport

      John Allport answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      You can’t make gravity, it is the effect of one mass on another, so it occurs naturally. In theory you can make artificial gravity in space using centrifugal force, by rotating part of the spaceship like a giant wheel. There’s a good article on the BBC website about this at
      http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130121-worth-the-weight

    • Photo: Chris Hackett

      Chris Hackett answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      yea as john says you cannot make gravity, it is always there, created by everything that has mass. You remove the effects of it on your body by going into freefell, which is what astronauts feel in orbit.

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