Space is a BIG PLACE Ping!..............
I like the pictures but the rest of it makes no sense to me.....
Nothing new under the Sun...
While the technologies we’d most desire, including:
* instantaneous teleportation,
* safe travel through a wormhole,
* or warp drive,
would all be transformative, they seem to require something that doesn’t exist within this Universe, at least as we understand it today.
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Around 1850, James Clark Maxwell postulated all of those in his 200 field equations. All but 4 were thrown out by a self-educated man who lived in his mom’s basement and never revisited again.
Today, Maxwell is little known, and his original manuscript is near impossible to find.
He’s only remembered for his contributions to electrical theory. Where 4 field equations were turned into vector equations by the the self-educated man, giving us all we know about the electromagnetic spectrum - which covers pretty much everything. Neither Einstein nor Tesla would have amounted to anything without reading Maxwell first.
Best to use magic for things like this.
It was not really that long ago that some guy was sitting under an apple tree.
I have seen advances in my lifetime that I did not expect.
back in the the 60s I remember thinking we were in the golden era and everything had been invented.
I was very wrong. So are these guys
the article hurt my brain
1) The travelers in the craft are teenagers. And
2) Pizza in boxes are glued to the floor.
According to the 3rd law of teenage behaviors -- the travelers will cling to the floor.
Gravity Sucks.
I don’t have a clue about any of this but I wonder why any created force can’t be countered. Or created.
Eric Weinstein posited recently that string theory is fake and being used to distract the physics world from researching this exact stuff.
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 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).