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From the old canon but also non canon sources it always seemed to me that you can't get into hypserspace too near to a gravity well (canon it is with the interdictor class ship in rebels but also a few … But now there was a hyperjump right into far within a gravity well. Is there any explanation anywhere for this? Or was that just artistic freedom that it could work? …

Sunshine doesn't strike me as the most scientifically inaccurate film, and how it deals with gravity has caught my attention. … The Icarus (I & II) seems to have long cylindrical compartments, with earth-like gravity in a single arbitrary direction. Is the way gravity works in Sunshine ever explained (any solid theories)? …

In new canon, anti-gravity is never mentioned. …

What is the name/author/publication of a science fiction, very short story, about an autistic child who is observed to create an anti-gravity machine from junk in his back yard, then dismantles it. …

When the good ship Serenity is traveling in deep space, the crew experiences what looks like an Earth-normal (or Earth That Was-normal) level of gravity. … Is it ever explained how the ship is able to generate artificial gravity? The ship doesn't spin, so rotation is out. …

In addition to the other logistical balefire questions, I was wondering if balefire obeys the laws of gravity. …

In Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) blaster bolts are affected by gravity, like bullets shot by weapons in Battlefield games. Is this right? … Are blaster bolts affected by gravity in the same way that real life ammunition is i.e. will they fall after a while? …

I don't know if it generates gravity on its own or has a gravity generator, but that's not important. I think we have basically two scenarios: Gravity works the same way as Earth. … If that's the case, when would the gravity shift? What if you're taking an elevator, would it be same as in the Total Recall remake? Everyone has the same gravity. …

On various occasions in The Expanse TV series, it's mentioned that the asteroid Eros has artificial gravity. As explained in-universe, the gravity comes from rotation. … How can rotation generate "artificial gravity"? I would guess normally it would create quite the opposite and whirl everything out into space. …

Bashir shows wonder and amazement at being in a low gravity environment. (He'd really never been outside artificial gravity?) … (Couldn't the gravity be reduced in the cargo bay at least?) In the TNG episode Hollow Pursuits, Barclay has problems with his anti-gravity device. (Why not just switch the artificial gravity off?) …

Inspired by the question How does the Death Star gravity work?, how does gravity work on the Millennium Falcon and other ships its size? … So how is gravity accomplished? …

There's a short story I read about a spaceship of human-analog crew that got caught in the gravity well and fatally crashed on a super-massive planet; the inhabitants of this planet were of course physically … adapted to the high gravity, and when they found the craft, it was to them surprisingly thin hulled and they were curious about the pink pulpy blobs that they found within. …

Looking at the town of Gravity Falls, it seems fairly small, without too many buildings. Both the Gravity Falls wiki and Wikipedia describe the town as "small." … So how large is the town of Gravity Falls supposed to be, in terms of physical size and population? …

This (along with mentions of "bone density juice" and the presence of "long-bones", extremely tall folk who'd grown up in low-gee) led me to conclude that the interior gravity in Ceres must be much less … What level of (presumed centrifugal) artifical gravity is maintained in Ceres? …

As I understood, the equation had to do with gravity. What was the relation of gravity with a massive infestation of a microorganism? …