Posted on 03/17/2011 11:21:29 AM PDT by Normandy
Anti-gravity technology is a theme in many works of science fiction, and a hope for those who dream of radical engineering breakthroughs. It is also, I have learned, a topic of serious study in a segment of the scientific community. I recently interviewed Gregory Daigle, author of a newly released book Gravity 2.0: Design Strategies for a Gravity Modified World to learn more about the field...
FET: What made you focus on the design aspect of modification of gravity?
GD: If gravity-like fields, both attractive and repulsive, can be produced along the lines proposed by Extended Heim Theory (EHT) then it would make possible not only propulsive fields but also fields that might be described as barrier fields, suppression fields, traction fields and others. As an industrial designer, such new possibilities for producing fields capable of manipulating all matter much like electromagnetic fields manipulate ferrous materials presents exciting opportunities not only in products but also experience design and in redefining demographic relationships. If you can float to work, that’s an experience. If you can float your home, then how do you describe your residency? This has the power to impact land values (why buy when you can fly?), democracy (you can’t vote if you float) and injure social structures by creating not just economic divides, but vertical ones as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at freeenergytimes.com ...
Nothing wrong with dreaming. Just don’t ask me to put money into your anti-grav start up.
Pinging George Jetson...
/johnny
What, you don't want to get in on the ground floor?
Though prior condensed matter studies by Li, Torr, and Podkletnov & Neiminen have not been successfully replicated,
and with each experiment that tries to clarify the results, the observed effect has diminished.
I knew a guy that built gravity meters for a living, and other geophysical equipment. He told the story of how the missles take into account gravity anomalies over which they will travel into account. Changes in gravity due to mountains, oceans, changes in rock, etc. All of that is programmed into the computer. 9This was before GPS, etc.)
But the missles still were off course a bit. The government had him do some studies on determining if there was such a thing as “anti-gravity”. He did gravity measurements deep in tunnels, and high up on towers at the same location, among other things.
He said he thought it was conceivable that there is “anti-gravity”, but that it was too small for him to measure. And I would think that if it is too small to measure, if it does exist, how you would harness its power.
“Ground Floor” is probable the wrong metaphor for this topic. I’d like to jump on it from the 110th floor as it zooms up.
One of the problems is that the "source" of gravity is still a mystery. Sure, we know its properties, and that one of the properties of mass is gravity, but the source of gravity is one of the things that still puzzles physicists and scientists.
Something interesting is that it was GPS that proved a part of Einstein's theory of special relativity. The problem was that things on the earth kept shifting because their coordinates kept changing. GPS relies on very specific time-keeping. What was discovered was that time "runs" at a different rate in orbit than it does on the surface of the earth, and they realized that regular time updates needed to be made. And that's because gravity effects the rate at which time "runs."
Mark
Right up there with Cold Fusion....
“and with each experiment that tries to clarify the results, the observed effect has diminished.”
That in itself is interesting.
I thought that theory was put to the test before GPS. They synchronized two atomic clocks and sent one aloft in a high flying plane. When the plane landed they checked the clocks, and the one aloft was, or had been, running slower.
GPS doesn’t work unless you take relativity into account. Relativity was engineered into GPS from the beginning.
The fact that GPS works is a confirmation of relativity.
I can't get past that statement right there. Gravity, in my experience is only an attractive force.
“...but the source of gravity is one of the things that still puzzles physicists and scientists.”
As one who works with these basic properties, I too remind folks of this “mystery”. Electrical properties, electromagnetic fields, magnetic fields are fairly well understood. (Although still some mystery with the earth’s magnetic field.) But the one field that we ALL are VERY familiar with - gravity, we aren’t sure how it works! Although I suppose someone with a lot more brain power than I have perhaps “understands” it with regard to Einstein, bending of time and space, etc.
I think it is these “mysteries” that make life, and science interesting, and driving us to pursue those answers. It is a lot more fun when we don’t have all the answers.
I find parts of this really attractive, but I can see how Obama might shovel billions at this, and that repels me.
Whatever happened with the NASA project using spinning superconductors that was supposed to decrease the local gravity field.
I remember is was a big deal that NASA was jumping on board with the testing then nothing.
I imagine it either went nowhere because it was a bogus theory, or it was a very good theory that had certain realistically attainable applications and so was never heard from again.
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