I’m currently reading through The Expanse series (on Caliban’s war at the moment) and the always talk about the feeling of gravity as the ship moves at 1G. I understand that higher gravity forces make the feeling of an elephant on your chest but the say they can walk around the ship as if everything is normal while under 1G of thrust. Wouldn’t any forward momentum stick you the the opposite wall or is their engine at a weird angle?
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If you are on a ship with thrust, “down” will be toward the back of the ship. To put it another way, the ship is always moving “up”.
> Wouldn’t any forward momentum stick you the the opposite wall
Any forward thrust would indeed stick you to a wall, and you would name that wall “Floor” and you would walk around on that wall and put your furniture on that wall.
The wall opposite “Floor” would be called “Ceiling” and the thrust would make it very hard for you to reach out and touch “Ceiling” unless you are very tall.
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