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AntiGravity - a lá Boeing

Capt'n Midnight · 2003-09-10 23:39:59

So it possible in theory or not ? ===================== http://www.janes.com/aerospace/civil/news/jdw/jdw020729_1_n.shtml Anti-gravity propulsion comes ‘out of the closet’ By Nick Cook, JDW Aerospace Consultant, London Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, has admitted it is working on experimental…

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So it possible in theory or not ?
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http://www.janes.com/aerospace/civil/news/jdw/jdw020729_1_n.shtml

Anti-gravity propulsion comes ‘out of the closet’

By Nick Cook, JDW Aerospace Consultant, London

Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, has admitted it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology if the science underpinning them can be engineered into hardware.

As part of the effort, which is being run out of Boeing’s Phantom Works advanced research and development facility in Seattle, the company is trying to solicit the services of a Russian scientist who claims he has developed anti-gravity devices. So far, however, Boeing has fallen foul of Russian technology transfer controls (Moscow wants to stem the exodus of Russian high technology to the West).

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#2 11-09-2003 1:54am

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A quick link to an earlier thread on the subject which contains links to articles in New Scientist and the BBC.

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#3 11-09-2003 2:05pm

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I'm surprised noone has cited the interview that was carried out with this guy, where it was noted that the experiment wasn't repeatable. Basicly, he span the superconducting disk up to speed, and the weight suspended over the disk did flucuate in weight - but from the coolant's offgassing bumping the weight about rather than a real effect.

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#4 12-09-2003 11:34am

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I remember that New Scientist article, and thought just how amazing such a development would be.

It wasn't long ago a group of physicists managed to "beam" a couple of photons across a room. Give them fifty years, maybe they'll be able to transport sizeable matter.

I don't know if anti gravity technology is possible, but I'm more than willing to entertain the possibility until it's disproven beyond doubt(which I hope doesn't happen ).

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#5 12-09-2003 11:42am

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I'm not hugely up on physics, but doesn't the Pauli exclusion principle (along with Heisenberg) rule out the chances of sending anything more than a photon across a room.

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#6 12-09-2003 12:51pm

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Not really they just use Heisenberg Compensators - just like in star trek.

Seriously there might be a way of doing this by transferring the entrophy from one particle to another - you loose all information at the first one - this means that you can transport, but can't replicate (and there is no bloody pattern buffer)

not too sure about the in's and outs - but I agree with Bones - I don't want my atoms scattered across the universe and then there is the practical / philosophical question of whether transporters are murder.. (it's a clone that arrives at the far end).

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