Antigravity
See: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2157975.stm"; target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2157975.stm</a>;
I've heard of his experiment but I've also heard that other scientists had difficulty in duplicating it. So why is Boeing, BAE, and Nasa looking into it? Perhaps Boeing duplicated the experiment but is keeping on the DL? Is there any merit to this phenomena?
My understanding of modern Quantum physics is that every force (Strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electro-magnetic, and gravity) has an associated boson (force transmitting particle). The only one yet to be directly observed is the Graviton. But bosons do not have anti-particles like baryons and fermions (eg. there is no anti-photon or anti-W particle) so how would you reproduce anti-gravity? Even anti-matter produces normal gravity... So this is why I have a heard time believing in anti-gravity, unless I am missing something significant here.
I've heard of his experiment but I've also heard that other scientists had difficulty in duplicating it. So why is Boeing, BAE, and Nasa looking into it? Perhaps Boeing duplicated the experiment but is keeping on the DL? Is there any merit to this phenomena?
My understanding of modern Quantum physics is that every force (Strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electro-magnetic, and gravity) has an associated boson (force transmitting particle). The only one yet to be directly observed is the Graviton. But bosons do not have anti-particles like baryons and fermions (eg. there is no anti-photon or anti-W particle) so how would you reproduce anti-gravity? Even anti-matter produces normal gravity... So this is why I have a heard time believing in anti-gravity, unless I am missing something significant here.
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I wonder if our understandng of things like quarks, leptons, bosons, etc. is at the same level of understanding we had when we first unconvered the atom and its constituent parts. Surely there were initial observations or assumptions made about the nature of atoms that proved to be incorrect (or only partially correct) as the math and instrumentation improved.
We are on the right track but I have a feeling we're just learning to crawl if you take my meaning. Read any good book about cosmology and the related theories of how things came to be, and there are clearly areas we are just beginning to understand. I think anti-particles and their role in the universe is one of those things.
[ 07-29-2002: Message edited by: Moogs ]</p>
strap some toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat
drop from at least table height.
toast always wants to land butter side down...
a cat always wants to land on its feet.
the result of this experiment is that at about a height of 4 inches, the cat and toast spin perpetually, each repelling the other from floor contact, generating an anti-gravity effect!
with enough toast and enough cats, we're flying.
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
[ 07-29-2002: Message edited by: curiousuburb ]</p>
<strong>One can argue that a chemical rocket booster is an anti-gravity device
Not successfully though.
<strong>don't forget the buttered cat anti-grav system.
strap some toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat
drop from at least table height.
toast always wants to land butter side down...
a cat always wants to land on its feet.
the result of this experiment is that at about a height of 4 inches, the cat and toast spin perpetually, each repelling the other from floor contact, generating an anti-gravity effect!
with enough toast and enough cats, we're flying.
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
[ 07-29-2002: Message edited by: curiousuburb ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
The problem with this is that the repulsive force of the toast is not nearly as strong as the force from the cat (a much larger object), therefore the cat's force will win and it will land on it's feet.
The above is based on my own experimental data.
[ 07-29-2002: Message edited by: Snof ]</p>
say... blackberry jam over an expensive white carpet.
then the toast forces overwhelm all but pumpkin sized cats
[ 07-29-2002: Message edited by: curiousuburb ]</p>
har har har.
I like cats....and buttered toast....but my friend's already tried this, and sure enough no spinning.
BTW: I heard a rumor that Apple will use this technology in their next ?Breakthrough Digital Device??. They will call it the iPodklenov? ok, that was bad..
[ 07-30-2002: Message edited by: Blizaine ]</p>
<a href="http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifters.htm"; target="_blank">http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifters.htm</a>;
BTW... could a ladder be correctly descibed as an anti-gravity device?
<img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />