Gravity Control

[space11]

Here it is again.<br /><br />Http://www.gctspace.com<br /><br />Any thoughts?

 

[wvbraun]

I'll wait for a working prototype. Hope it's real though.

 

[strandedonearth]

Yes, it would be nice if it worked. I hope if/when they demonstate that it works that they broadcast the results as widely as possible, before the corporate interests that stand to lose put a stop to it, either by buying and burying the technology or arranging a lab 'accident,' such as a natural gas leak.

 

[tap_sa]

Couple of ex-east block web designers slap together a site with pretty renderings direct from Mars Attacks seasoned with superficial mumbojumbo about superconductors, BEC and ZPF. Is anyone genuinely considering this to be real?<br /><br />If you believe this wait till you hear about my FTL drive. It's almost ready, I just need a million bucks and a ZPM! Oh, you don't have the ZPM? Well that's ok just give the million and I'll get ZPM from someone else.<br />

 

[jmilsom]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. It’s a great web site put together, it seems, by two guys from Hungary. If the CEO has been researching the subject for fifteen years, where are the links to the research papers? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[riflemannl]

i want proof, no pictures <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[nikolai9]

It may be coming <br />http://www.gravitycontrol.org

 

[kmarinas86]

http://www.searleffect.com/

 

[cyrostir]

the first trailer was OK, but the second was just goofy.<br /><br />the nazi's experimented with antigravity during the last few months of WWII with supposidly harmful effects on the scientists and different animals and such

 

[kmarinas86]

Wouldn't we think that gravity is easier to make and amplify than antigravity? And some people think that the government has antigravity devices, well why not gravity devices too? Imagine what kind of forces they could use against people by generating an artificial source of gravity? that's eviiiiil.....

 

[yevaud]

I have an odd belief about the theoretical control of gravity: we'll never be able to do it.<br /><br />If gravity is an expression of mass, a force proportional to it's "warping" the fabric of time and space, if you will, then here's a very real problem I see:<br /><br />How do you "mimic" a sufficient mass to create a useful gravity field? Wouldn't, by definition, any hypothetical device that could create gravity waves have to also create all of the effects of the proper mass to achieve it?<br /><br />Now suppose you tried to do this, and create a gravitational effect of 1G. The machine would have to mimic the mass of the planet Earth!<br /><br />I would like to be away from town that weekend. Preferably on Mars... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[kmarinas86]

Well, there superconductivity! Mag-Lev Trains have been built already, but cost is high. An electro-magnetic field decreases with distance just like gravity does.

 

[yevaud]

That's true, but as you know, an electromagnetic field on that sort of scale far overpowers the force of gravity. I mean, for example, it takes a small electromagnet to pull iron filings up through the air, to the magnet. But it takes the entire mass of the Earth to create the gravity to hold it down.<br /><br />Which the tiny magnet overpowers. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>