Answer to Question #95023 in Physics for Darius Maharaj

Question

Suppose someone discovers a material which the force of the Earth’s gravity cannot pass through. Suggest a few uses for it.(In practice the force of gravity passes unaffected through a vacuum and through all materials).

Answer 1

For example, you can arrange a wonderful attraction - to make people feel what the astronauts are experiencing at the orbital station. those. weightlessness state.

Or use this effect for medicinal purposes, when the patient spends a lot of time in a supine position, and this is harmful to his health.

This material will revolutionize construction - goods can be raised and lowered using much less powerful mechanisms; the same fundamental changes will occur in transport, in mining, in general in industry.

In addition, it will be much easier to go out into the near-Earth space and travel to the planets of the solar system.