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[Star Trek] How do Inertial Dampeners work?
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Newton's first law of motion: An object at rest tends to stay at rest.

Inertial dampers "trick" this phenomenon into making the area being dampened move almost as a unit. From a relative perspective, no movement occurs, thus no inertial effect. Relative to the observer, all of space moves around them.

If you're asking how it accomplishes this feat... uhm. Gravitons or something.