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J. B. Stanhope replied to the topic Lightsabers, Warp drives and Phasers in the forum Sci-fi Writers 4 years, 11 months ago
So basically, if one were to fall on this holey planet, they would be in a mini orbit through the planet and around its core?Well it would be an orbit through the core, not around the core. It would basically be a straight line, they’d be going back and forth on. It’s a similar scenario to an oscillating spring. And that’s assuming the hole goes all the way through.
an asymmetrical planet, would there still be no gravity at the planet’s center? Or would it be in patches all over the planet?I think it would mainly cause the no-gravity location to be not in the geometric center. It might be possible that there’d be multiple no-gravity points, depending on how the mass was arranged. I’m not really familiar with gravitational analysis of weirdly shaped objects.
What if the zero-gravity area was full of water and the external gravity was all that was keeping the water in the no-gravity zone?That should work.
I like the idea of the gravity train! What do you think would be a good amount of time for it to take?I looked more into the travel time, and it turns out the travel time doesn’t depend on distance from the center. It only depends on the density of the planet. For earth, it would take 42.24 minutes. For you Jupiter-size, earth-mass planet, it would take 25.57 hours.
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