The space station's main commercial use would be to provide low gravity for research and manufacture.
The cylinders rotate to provide artificial gravity on their inner surface.
The whole thing rotates just fast enough to provide proper gravity.
This was naturally a cause of some concern to the Oberoni, so they set about finding a way to provide enough gravity for the theater.
With no other masses to provide gravity, the kernels defined the whole internal field of the habitat.
The gravity field provides workable gravity just under that found on Earth.
"Nothing within range is large enough to provide sufficient gravity," Tev informed her.
The backups were designed to provide gravity under normal conditions.
The centrifuge will provide Earth-normal gravity for exercise, but you can only run in a straight line.
However, the facts are that the station does sometimes provide gravity to those portions marked 'free fall'.