I don't know anything about science, so I probably wasn't even being accurate, but I was writing a character once who could manipulate her own gravitational field and the way I had imagined that was the power let her float, but she had thrusters to actually give herself direction and allow her to control her flight. (She could also do really long jumps and stuff sort of like you can do on the moon but more controlled, etc.) I can see how a more sophisticated control would allow you to push and pull yourself toward things without thrusters, but then wouldn't there be a lot of incidents of objects getting accidentally sucked into your gravitational pull? Unless I guess there's an innate control of it that allows it to be very precise from the beginning?
Again, I don't actually understand physics so probably I'm wrong but that's why I never really pictured the standard Superman flyer as manipulating a gravitational field. Cause his flying doesn't seem to have an impact on the rest of the world around him in terms of the force it produces?
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Date: 2013-04-07 10:03 pm (UTC)Again, I don't actually understand physics so probably I'm wrong but that's why I never really pictured the standard Superman flyer as manipulating a gravitational field. Cause his flying doesn't seem to have an impact on the rest of the world around him in terms of the force it produces?