Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation [Anti-Gravity!]

PhysOrg.com ^ | 11 February 2006 | Staff

[PatrickHenry]

I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career.

[PatrickHenry]

SciencePing

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[REDWOOD99]

This article was posted next year.

[OpusatFR]

Sure. What news. I can just see flying cars in the future. Not a happy thought for anyone in Hampton Roads who has to contend with the drivers from h$ll here.

[Brilliant]

You wonder why the Klingons have not paid us a visit, then.

[Screamname]

Human travel near the speed of light has already been proven and demonstrated countless times already by the French when they retreat.

[null and void]

Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it. The closer a mass gets to the speed of light, the stronger its 'antigravity beam' becomes.

Oh??? If that is truly the case, one of the big barriers to FTL/near C travel vanishes. That was hitting individual atoms at that speed would generate a lethal shower of X-rays and secondary particles.

[Brilliant]

The jury is still out on whether Einstein's equations on general relativity were right, though. That's why they sent up a sattelite last year to test them.



Special relativity is the one that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.

[silverleaf]

Man someday may travel at the speed of light, but bureaucracies will still require at least 30 days to investigate customer complaints.

[Fiddlstix]

ROTFLMAO!

[Drango]

A lot of science geeks are "folding"! For more info, please join us on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1572512/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

[furball4paws]

Well, I don't know anywhere near enough to realistically comment on this, but I'll zip an email to a theoretical physicist friend of mine and get his comments.

Long distance space travel would be real cool and I'll volunteer to be the first to go, one way or round trip.

[Lancer_N3502A]

Sit Down, Shut Up and Hold On cause HERE WE GO AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN...

[ANGGAPO]

"Beam me up, Scottie"

[Lancer_N3502A]

[grey_whiskers]

Paging Wendell Urth...

BTW, PH, is Physicist on your list? [From the title of the thread, it seems like we should congratulate him ;-) ]

Cheers!

[keithtoo]

I was gonna do this, but I had to fertilize the lawn this weekend.

[RightWhale]

I also dunno about this one. There are an infinite number of possible solutions. Einstein rejected a 5-dimensional solution because it didn't feel right, which if we might use Einstein's gut as a guide, makes solutions less than nessarily true even if they are exact.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

NasaSpaceFlight.com is carrying the story, too...

An abstract from one of his papers on the subject (paper is readable in PDF)
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0505098


Shows up in Nasa Daily, too... for Feb 10.

Looks fairly legit, not a crackpot physicist.

[Drammach]

I donno about this one, but Dr. Felber seems like he's had a responsible career.

I just object to the idea of referring to it as "The Felber Drive"..

" Cap'n, the Felbers are out, we canna escape the Darwinians ! "

" That strange feeling as we approach Light Speed is known as the Felber Effect.."

" We're approaching Felber Speed, Sir ! "

No, I don't like it.. I don't like it at all....