US Has Heavily Researched Anti-Gravity, Book Says

Reuters ^ | Friday September 7 12:15 PM ET | By Bradley Perrett

[Shooter 2.5]

LOL, I love reading your posts.

[RightOnline]

"Einstein did. It's the curvature of spacetime."

And to think I always was under the impression that it's the spaceature of curvetime.

Dang.

[malarski]

Congratulations on being politically correct. You don't need gravity to suck!

[Hillary 666]

Where the hell were these people when I needed to get snow off my roof?

[RightOnline]

You mean this?

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[XBob]

32 - "has anyone even figured out what gravity is? Einstein did. It's the curvature of spacetime. "

I guess he didn't tell anybody else. I'm smart, but no Einstein. What does what you said mean?

[Cultural Jihad]

has anyone even figured out what gravity is?

Bingo. Science has no explanation for electricity, magnetism, and gravity. It can predict their occurrences and measure them, but has no way of explaining what exactly they are.

[XBob]

thanks, that's what I thought

[cmsgop]

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[Dead Corpse]

Anything with mass deforms the local space/time. In effect, we aren't stuck to the planet because of some kind of graviton. We are in fact slidding down a slope created by the gravity of the center of the earth.

Or some such BS.

Now ask him where the highest point of gravity would be. You'd think that it would be in the opposite direction of gravitational pull, ie; away from the earth, starting at the center of the earth. So theoreticly, you'd weigh a lot more standing two inches from the earths core even though there isn't enough mass between you and the core to make a difference.

However, if there is a graviton type particle/wave/wavelet, the focus of said particle would originate at the focal point ie; the center. The effect would propagate like all other observed forms of radiation with the effect thinning out over distance from origin.

Podkletnov and others are working on this as we speak.

[Faraday]

I don't think "antigravity" research would be productive. Note however that there is evidence for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. This is theorized to be caused by a property known as quintessence. It has properties similar to what antigravity would exhibit. Further discussion of this phenomenon can be seen at the April 7, 2001 edition of Science News and at Physical Review Focus, 2/24/2000. Many other sources are available by searching "universe acceleration".

[Dead Corpse]

Wrong oh Mighty Brain-bot. Electricity and Magnetism are well known.

They are working on gravity. Give 'em some time.

Jeez, you don't think the world is flat do you?

[longshadow]

I guess he didn't tell anybody else.

Actually, Einstein published his theory of Gravitation. That's what his "General Theory of Relativity" is about.

[Faraday]

Science has no explanation for electricity, magnetism, and gravity. It can predict their occurrences and measure them, but has no way of explaining what exactly they are.

In science, things are exactly what can be measured/determined about them. For example, an electron is a particle with certain mass, charge, spin, and quantization potential properties belonging to a class of particles known as leptons. That is exactly what "they are." To ask for more goes into the realm of philosophy and metaphysics. The latter realm is generally unproductive and unreliable, imho.

[Roscoe]

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/science/dean.html

[Kevin Curry]

Electricity and Magnetism are well known.

Their effects are well known. Exactly what they ARE is matter of considerable conjecture and disagreement.

If you knew even half of what you think you know, I'd still give my cat 3-1 odds in a game of "stump the dummy" in a head-to-head match.

[Kevin Curry]

In science, things are exactly what can be measured/determined about them.

What is blue? No, not the wavelength. The color itself. Exactly what is it?

Go ahead and fiddle with your sliderule, Poindexter. Take all the time you need.

[djf]

In one of the Berlitz rags he talks about something called the Biefeld Brown effect, where a strongly charged dipole has a force towards one of the poles, I forget which. This led me to do some research, I at least found out that Thomas Townsend Brown was a highly respected guy who had traveled the world doing surveys on the gravitational field and variations. Since the electric field and the magnetic field are at right angles, a very small gravitational effect, at right angles to the other two, might make sense. It was rumored that some levitation devices were constructed, but the static sharges needed were in the hundreds of thousands of volts range. Make yur hair stand on end, if not fall out completely.

[Faraday]

What is blue? No, not the wavelength. The color itself. Exactly what is it?

This question is probably more usefully directed to an expert in human perception, which I am not. But I'll take a crude stab at it, since it arises from the physical world. Blue is name people give to a mental image which we would assign to a category known as color. It arises from the interaction of an photon of a limited range of frequencies with the eye as processed by the brain.

Things can exist as independent entities (matter and energy), as our perceptions, or as pure theoretical constructs. Science uses all three categories, but focuses on what can be known about the first.

While were at it, Bruce, perhaps you could tell me what "number" is. Is it similar to an electron? or "blue"?