Question: can you make gravity gloves

Helen Gath answered on 18 Jun 2014:

Good morning!
To make gravity free gloves would be amazing, so please let me know when you have invented them!
Sadly, I think it could be quite hard, because the force of gravity is all around us, it is inescapable. You can’t touch it or see it, but gravity is there.

Gravity could be described a bit like magnetism – the attraction between two objects which pulls them together. Everything on the planet is held in place by gravity; our planet has its own gravitational pull which draws all object towards its centre. The degree of gravity, or force of pull, experienced by an object depends on it’s size and location. For example, if you stood up now and dropped a pencil it would fall very quickly because gravity has a stronger pull when close to the earth. If you went into space, there is a much weaker gravitational pull as you are further away from Earth. Dropping the pencil in space it would not be pulled down so much, and it would move more slowly.

Because gravity is not tangible (can’t touch it), you can’t escape it. Making gravity gloves very difficult. You can only find areas where gravity is weaker or stronger. HOWEVER, what is very cool is that you can experience what it may feel like to be in space and feel weightless. Astronauts have discovered that if you fly a plane in a certain way, you can counteract the force of gravity and float around in the plane. This basically involves the planes doing a nose dive from very high in the air!! Though astronauts use this to prepare for trips into space, anyone can pay to do this as a leisure activity! I would certainly give it a try!