What does grav "Look" like

Hmm,

Richard asks:  What does a grav field "Look" like?

Well, I assume you are using a densiometer to "look" at it.  Or some
other means to measure gravitic potential.  (How else would you "see"
it?)

Well, the model I have looked at grav plates as though they are some kind
of resonant effect within the hull of the ship.  Thus, you have grav plates
on the 'floor' and 'ceiling' of your ship, which makes the entire hull
into some sort of resonant cavity where the plates interact with each other
in creating your grav field.  I would GUESS that *however* anti-grav works,
this would be the most efficient way to place the plates.  (Sort of a
gravitic laser cavity without a beam?)  You see this way you don't have to
waste energy creating a field outside and 'above' the hull, as the grav
effect is confined to inside it.

What does it "LOOK" like?
Well, inside the ship, Traveller literature seems to indicate that there is
no difference between the effect of grav plates and standing on a planet's
surface.  So, to my mind someone with a densiometer would detect things on
the ship normally.
	Now, we are told that it is difficult or impossible to
look through a ship from the outside with a densiometer while the ship's
plates are on.  Well, using my model above, the potential well of the plates
would make the ship something like a very deep potential well, but with no
grav field trailing off into space as a normal field would do.  Consequently,
It would look kinda like a fish tank.  The fish can see in the water normally,
we can see around the tank normally, but when one tries to look into the tank
from the outside, or from inside the tank to the outside, there are distortion
effects which are rather considerable.
	If you had sufficient computing power turned on the problem, or data
on what the ship's grav field "looked" like normally, one would be able to
scan through the field distortion.

How's that sound?

2G Scott
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