Posted on 11/21/2024 1:13:49 PM PST by Red Badger
I don’t have a clue about any of this but I wonder why any created force can’t be countered. Or created.
In the 1800s there was a movement to close the patent office since everything that could be invented, had been.
If only there was some planet we could exploit.
No, it pushes. Down.
“I am not sure Mankind can avoid destroying itself, more than likely not.“
Well we sat and watched as unseen figures stole an election and installed a senile illegitimate and a puppet who is presently trying to piss off the Russians as a way to strike back at his nemesis. So yeah, I’m with you. Seems more likely than not.
“Today, Maxwell is little known”
He is hardly little known. Every student of physics, at any level beond high school, knows about the 4 Maxwell equations.
Eric Weinstein posited recently that string theory is fake and being used to distract the physics world from researching this exact stuff.
Every student of physics, at any level beond high school, knows about the 4 Maxwell equations.
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But those are not his, but Heaviside’s. The other 196 are unknown.
The problem with “anti-gravity” is that it’s not really about you or me or anybody else... it’s about the Earth (or whatever large celestial body that’s pulling you toward its center.
If your mass were to dramatically increase, that would only increase the gravitational attraction between you and earth. If the standard equation holds (no reason to think otherwise), you only overcome Earth’s gravity in 2 ways:
> your own mass becomes zero
> you provide a sustainable thrust away from the center of the earth sufficient to match or overcome the force of gravity.
That ‘anti-gravity thrust’ would generally vary with height since the force of gravity will vary, depending on your proximity to the earth’s center. So technically, anyone on top of Everest could jump higher than they can on the shores of the Dead Sea... not that anyone’s measured that difference (it would be a very very tiny difference).
But nothing is gonna simply cancel out gravity... the gravitational force needs to be countered, and that only comes via something that provides its own upward force... a plane, a rocket, a leap (which clearly doesn’t last very long), etc.
Anti-gravity? Sure, we’ve got some of that. Right over in aisle 12, next to the magnetic monopoles. Can’t miss it.
I am assuming you are talking about Faraday.
He’s talking about Oliver Heaviside who reduced/rewrote 20 quaternion equations into the 4 vector calculus equations all classical E&M students know and love. Same underlying equations, more compact notation. He didn’t ‘throw away’ anything.
Is it ‘gravity’ or just bent space time?
“Everything that can be invented has been invented” - attributed to Charles Holland Duell, Commissioner of Patents in the US Patent Office, 1899.
Note that inventions are the creation of something entirely new, while science is discovery - the laws of nature were already there, just formerly unknown, to be discovered.
Yeah, I know that quaternion equations deal with movement in three dimensional space, but shoot me in the head if I was ever asked to actually solve one.
Oliver Heaviside.
I believe that gravity and time are intimately related.
Time-dilation occurs when traveliing near the speed of light beause of the propulsion force required to achieve the near light-speed velocity. The Gs observed in the acceleration are the same Gs exerted by gravity.
In my simple-minded opinion, if time-travel is possible then anti-gravity is possible, and vice-versa.
Hmmm...
It is really a geometric problem and the real question is: Can we turn space-time inside out?
But of course it is.
One problem: We are somebody’s ant farm.
And if Earth is some type of cosmic oasis, I’m pretty sure that by now they solved the crossbreeding problem.
I really don’t think anti-gravity will matter (it’s the reason I opted to not have children).
Enjoy life; our fate is not our own (except for what we choose).
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