Posted on 12/29/2014 8:29:32 PM PST by Deathtomarxists
Some guys spend their spare time restoring automobiles, devoting garage space to motionless Corvettes and Camaros.
Pares is making his own warp drive.
To hear him and his small team of supporters tell it, something weird is happening out here in the garage.
“The compression of the fabric of space,” Pares says matter-of-factly.
Pares’ garage is exactly as it sounds. This is not some converted hangar or temperature-controlled shed. Pares’ laboratory, the headquarters for his Space Warp Dynamics endeavor, is attached to the mid-size Aksarben-area home where he lives with his wife and their cat. It is split in halves, each side large enough to accommodate a not-very-large car. It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It is a garage.
On average, Pares spends a couple of hours a day here almost every day of the week. To bend the fabric of space, he sits in front of a tray of instruments, twisting knobs and glancing every now and then into a Faraday cage, where a 3.5-pound weight hangs inside an electrically isolated case. Outside the case hangs a strange instrument made up of V-shape panels with fractal arrays on the surfaces. The instrument is the latest version of what Pares believes is the world’s first low-power warp drive motor.
He turns around and points to the back of his garage door, where a red laser — beamed at the weight and reflected back against the door to demonstrate the movement happening in the case — drifts from its original spot. Slowly, in incremental amounts, the weight is drawn toward the V-shape motor.
“You’re not supposed to be able to do this,” Pares says.
At just 100 watts of power, he claims an electrical field created by his arrays is ever so slightly condensing space...
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Indeed.
But to get beyond the "ever so slightly", you will need a full 1.21 Gigawatts.
I know a guy that was working on a way to split H2O to get free Hydrogen.
He set his car on fire...
It may be a Faraday shield to remove electric fields...
but not magnetic fields.
Ping me when he does it with a Maxwell shield.
He’ll need a flux capacitor.
Overthink? Nope. The ability to warp space is still dependent upon mass, and small masses and low power just ain’t doing it.
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Many of them are extremely intelligent and creative.
A tip o' the hat to crackpots everywhere! :-)
I read once where the key to advanced flight propulsion is to eliminate gravity around the vehicle, via on board electromagnetic generators. Then propulsion requires only a small force.
I’ willing to bet government grants are involved somewhere in all of this?
Proof of concept is the most important step. Everything else is merely a refinement of the initial discovery.
Very good.
Whoops, my bad!
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