{"id":3979,"date":"2018-04-13T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acarlstein.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2018-04-13T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T20:11:29","slug":"using-acoustic-levitation-to-fake-gravity-in-space-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.acarlstein.com\/?p=3979","title":{"rendered":"Using Acoustic Levitation to “Fake Gravity” in Space Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I got an idea while sleeping. How about using Acoustic Levitation to fake gravity in Space Stations.
\n Acoustic levitation is also known as ultrasonic levitation, acoustic tractors, and ultrasonic tractors.<\/p>\n

The reason I said “fake” is that we are not really creating a gravity field but instead we are using the principle of acoustic levitation to\u00a0 push the astronaut towards one direction (which would be considered the floor).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Note: I don’t know if this is a good idea since I don’t have the budget, the knowledge, the time or the way to experiment this concept; however, if this is actually plausible, then I think it would be interesting to experiment and find out.<\/p>\n

I am not going to over over the details of Acoustic Levitation in this post since there are many places where its explained such as HowStuffWorks (check link here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I leave you with some videos below showing how acoustic levitation works.<\/p>\n

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\n This is a video made by Argonne National Laboratory:
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