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I haven't done any research in this area. Does anyone know of any
studies of micro-gravity inside the cab of a space elevator? Remember to work, the entire system has to be under elastic tension. The designs I've seen discussed use a big counter-mass at the far space end of the cable to hold the system in place above the anchorpoint on Earth's equator. The trivial case is when the cab is down on the Earth side. Obviously we're at 1G on the surface. I've presumed as the cab rises the effect of Earth's gravity goes down as inverse square (Universal Gravitation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation Are objects inside the cab of the space elevator near the "space" end undergoing any form of microgravity? The system really isn't in free fall because of the counter-mass suspended above it and the cable running below. Does the tensive forces provide any form of microgravity inside the cabin or are the occupants fully in 'free fall'? That doesn't seem quite correct either. Only if the cabin were in orbit without any connective cable. The counter-mass *is* appling force to the system to hold it stable. Maybe the effect of any 'artificial gravity' are too small to be consequential? If you were to suspend a cabin above the counter-mass would you end up with an artificial gravity in the vector direction of 180 degrees opposite the Earth's surface? i.e. the 'floor' of the cabin becomes the surface of the cabin opposite the Earth, alongside empty space? I haven't studied this question at all. Any cites to any studies on this appreciated. Dave |
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