3. Rotational hypergravity
In addition to microgravity studies, testing living beings under
hypergravity conditions can help us understand the effects of gravity
on them. Gravity above 1
g
is considered to be hypergravity.
To increase gravity, you would need to travel to a more massive planet
such as Jupiter or Saturn. Hypergravity can also be simulated on Earth
using centrifuges, which create other forms of linear acceleration.
When different forms of linear acceleration (including gravity) act
on a body, that body is really being subjected to their resultant.
That resultant plays the same role as gravity, its direction being
taken as the physiological vertical (figure
24
). Under rotation, the inertial force is
centrifugal and proportional to the radius...
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