When in a station in Elite dangerous, your CMDR will be experiencing centrifugal force - centrifugal force is not real and is only a perception - i.e artificial gravity (which I will explain). You surely feel the pressure when you accelerate in real life. Whether you attribute it to fictitious forces or other forces depends on your choice of the "reference frame" (vantage point).
From the viewpoint of your body's reference frame, which is not an inertial frame, there exist fictitious forces (inertia and/or centrifugal and/or Coriolis' force) that would push your body towards a seat in a car. With centrifugal forces, the force increases the closer it is.
If you are in a car when the brakes are jammed on, then you will feel pushed toward the front of the car. However, there is really no force pushing you forward. The car, since it is slowing down, is an accelerating, or non-inertial, frame of reference, and the law of inertia no longer holds if we use this non-inertial frame to judge your motion.
The ground is stationary and, therefore, is an inertial frame. Relative to the ground, when the brakes are applied, you continue with your forward motion, just like you should according to Newton's first law of motion. The situation is this: the car is stopping, you are not; so, you head out toward the dashboard. From your point of view in the car it seems like you have spontaneously been pushed forward. Actually, there is no force acting on you. The imagined force toward the front of the car is a fictitious force.
If a car is standing still and then accelerates, the car actually comes up from behind you, and, using the seat, the car pushes you forward. You may interpret this feeling as your body being pushed backward into the seat. Really, you are attempting to maintain your velocity of zero, and the seat is coming up from behind to push on you. There is no backward force. The imagined force is a fictitious force (artificial gravity). Fictitious forces arise in non-inertial, or accelerating, frames of reference.
In the words of a site cited below (putting it much better than I can): "In space, it is possible to create "artificial gravity" by spinning your spacecraft or space station. When the station spins, centrifugal force acts to pull the inhabitants to the outside. This process could be used to simulate gravity".
If you watch a time lapse of an ED station, you will see it spinning (which is creating the artificial gravity) and also orbiting the planet.
That is why in the International Space Station today there is no gravity - it is not spinning. To the stations in ED have been made to purposely spin (as far as I can tell) to create the artificial gravity.
From the viewpoint of your body's reference frame, which is not an inertial frame, there exist fictitious forces (inertia and/or centrifugal and/or Coriolis' force) that would push your body towards a seat in a car. With centrifugal forces, the force increases the closer it is.
If you are in a car when the brakes are jammed on, then you will feel pushed toward the front of the car. However, there is really no force pushing you forward. The car, since it is slowing down, is an accelerating, or non-inertial, frame of reference, and the law of inertia no longer holds if we use this non-inertial frame to judge your motion.
The ground is stationary and, therefore, is an inertial frame. Relative to the ground, when the brakes are applied, you continue with your forward motion, just like you should according to Newton's first law of motion. The situation is this: the car is stopping, you are not; so, you head out toward the dashboard. From your point of view in the car it seems like you have spontaneously been pushed forward. Actually, there is no force acting on you. The imagined force toward the front of the car is a fictitious force.
If a car is standing still and then accelerates, the car actually comes up from behind you, and, using the seat, the car pushes you forward. You may interpret this feeling as your body being pushed backward into the seat. Really, you are attempting to maintain your velocity of zero, and the seat is coming up from behind to push on you. There is no backward force. The imagined force is a fictitious force (artificial gravity). Fictitious forces arise in non-inertial, or accelerating, frames of reference.
In the words of a site cited below (putting it much better than I can): "In space, it is possible to create "artificial gravity" by spinning your spacecraft or space station. When the station spins, centrifugal force acts to pull the inhabitants to the outside. This process could be used to simulate gravity".
If you watch a time lapse of an ED station, you will see it spinning (which is creating the artificial gravity) and also orbiting the planet.
That is why in the International Space Station today there is no gravity - it is not spinning. To the stations in ED have been made to purposely spin (as far as I can tell) to create the artificial gravity.
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