On 27 Feb 2018 at 18:53, Richard Aiken wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Bruce Johnson
> <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>     Thing is, inertial damping and artificial gravity, which are also
>     canon in the LBB´s are essentially just that: attractive gravity
>     control.
>
> Agree about artificial gravity.
>
> But inertial damping could be "pusher" fields just as easily as it
> could be "puller" fields. In "actuality," it's probably both, in order
> to lower the stress on what's being manipulated, by spreading the
> forces involved out among as many vectors as possible.

Gravity (and one would assume, these fields as well) doesn't "stress
things that way because it acts on each particle of an object
"equally".

That's why you don't feel any gravitational force when in free fall.
What you normally experience as gravity is your body being
*prevented* from responding to gravity by the ground/floor.

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