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The real answer for this question is black magic. You know, the shit that makes your computer work.
You —-> Black Magic —-> Screen

It works something like that.
First of all you have to question what gravity really is. We all think that it is some kind of mystical force that attracts you to earth. Oh you do? well there you go, black magic.
Anyway there are a few different ways we could do this. First of all you need to develop it in secret so that the public sector can’t duplicate it and you will have a monopoly on the product. This = money.
You could always go with the old spinny thing where you spin the whole ship at the correct velocity so that it produces exactly one G of outwards force. (sometimes known as centrifugal force, some say centripedal force but i maintain it is just black magic so it doesn’t matter) This is a boring way of making gravity because then you would only be able to walk around the outside of the ship like in 2001 a Space Odyssey. (although this was awesome at the time)
I hypothesize that we are all being fooled by the physics of our fore bearers and that relativity and the speed of light limit is all garbage. I further hypothesize that gravity is not such a difficult thing to understand so long as you have a voodoo chief with at least a PhD in ‘Awesome Shit’.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could have space ships that are all trippy and psychedelic so that you never quite know which way gravity is going to go when you step somewhere (like some kind of platform game or The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy [now why didn't they make a sequel to that movie? It was awesome and so were the books]). Any who, gravity is just something that in like 100 years they will look back on us and go “man i can’t believe those noobs didn’t understand gravity”.
I don’t really know where i’m going with this just that there has to be some way to manipulate the flow of gravity. After all it is really just a dimple in the spacial fields surrounding large bodies. Surely it has something to do with the relative attractions between electrons and molecules and whatnot. I blame religion.

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