Anti-gravity made possible

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

Aluminum sounds better because it's easier to get.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

Sorry for the double post, but I've got another idea for future hover technology; an electric current in the underside of the vehicle that creates positively charged ions. Since they have the same charge, the repel each other, causing many of them to move upwards, lifting the vehicle above them. The only problems I can think of are a long-lasting, renewable source of electricity, and a way to contain the electrical field to keep the machine levitated.

[Prince Elite]

Anti Gravity mad possible thanks to the G-Diffuser

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

The G-Diffuser isn't real though. Please look at my post above you.

[Xortberg]

The G-Diffuser isn't real though. Please look at my post above you.

Not to be an ass or anything, since I know jack shit about science, but it seems to me that if anti-gravity were simple enough that a nineteen year old could figure it out that our brilliant minds woud have already found a way to do it.

[Prince Elite]

Not to be an ass or anything, since I know jack shit about science, but it seems to me that if anti-gravity were simple enough that a nineteen year old could figure it out that our brilliant minds woud have already found a way to do it.

18

[Xortberg]

18

I am going to be an ass here. I looked at his profile, dipshit. It says 19.

[Robert Monroe]

I am going to be an ass here. I looked at his profile, dipshit. It says 19.

Its ok Xort, I already said what you said a few posts back :D

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

How come every time I find something that claims anti-gravity is real it turns out to be from some kind of conspiracy theorist nutjob?

Maybe not this one. The guy at the top of the page says "The natural frequency of earth is [unparseable Latex Formula] hertz. This is equal to the ratio of the gravitational acceleration 9.8 m/s² divided by the escape velocity of 11,000 m/s and multiplied by [unparseable Latex Formula] where [unparseable Latex Formula] is the angle between the tangent and velocity vector at a point. The equation for the escape velocity as a function of angle φ is [unparseable Latex Formula]

At the velocity of 11,000 m/s, the angle comes out to be about 89.999994904°, which is practically vertical ascent. At light speed, the angle is 89.999158476°. At angle of 0°, the absolute magnitude of the velocity vector is 4,635,792,013 times light speed.".

And I just realized something: F-Zero machines aren't anti-gravity, because anti-gravity is the idea of creating something free from the force of gravity, and even F-Zero machines fall.

[Robert Monroe]

How come every time I find something that claims anti-gravity is real it turns out to be from some kind of conspiracy theorist nutjob?

Maybe not this one. The guy at the top of the page says "The natural frequency of earth is [unparseable Latex Formula] hertz. This is equal to the ratio of the gravitational acceleration 9.8 m/s² divided by the escape velocity of 11,000 m/s and multiplied by [unparseable Latex Formula] where [unparseable Latex Formula] is the angle between the tangent and velocity vector at a point. The equation for the escape velocity as a function of angle φ is [unparseable Latex Formula]

At the velocity of 11,000 m/s, the angle comes out to be about 89.999994904°, which is practically vertical ascent. At light speed, the angle is 89.999158476°. At angle of 0°, the absolute magnitude of the velocity vector is 4,635,792,013 times light speed.".

And I just realized something: F-Zero machines aren't anti-gravity, because anti-gravity is the idea of creating something free from the force of gravity, and even F-Zero machines fall.

That would be because F-Zero is a silly video game.

[Gene Inari]

I cant seem to find the article, But some scientists created a small hole inside a giant magent about the size of a room allowing weightlessness on earth. They had videos of a frog floating around inside the small hole and also had some liquid tests. I'll keep looking, I'll edit post when I find it

Take this for food for thought, but in the grand scale of the universe, Gravity is a pretty weak force. Magnetism has it all over gravity. There were several reasons why that frog was floating:

1. Magnetism is stronger than gravity. Put most simply, picking up paper clips with a simple bar magnet. The pull of the magnet on the clips overcomes gravity, but the effect of magnetism reduces drastically with distance from the source.

2. Water is a dipole, meaning it has magnetic poles. One side of a molecule of water is more positively charged than the opposite side of the molecule, which is negative. This is where we get hydrogen bonds and why water expands when frozen. Since it has magnetic poles, water can react quite noticeably to magnetic fields produced by other magnets.

3. The frog they were using is made of mostly water.

Long story short, when magnets and magnetic materials (in the frog's case, water) (or in general, other magnets) interact with each other, they create a force. This force can overcome gravity. However, doing it on a large scale requires some seriously powerful magnets. It just looks like anti-gravity, when it's just magnetism at work.

Sorry for the double post, but I've got another idea for future hover technology; an electric current in the underside of the vehicle that creates positively charged ions. Since they have the same charge, the repel each other, causing many of them to move upwards, lifting the vehicle above them. The only problems I can think of are a long-lasting, renewable source of electricity, and a way to contain the electrical field to keep the machine levitated.

This has already been done in a sense, it's called a Maglev: "a system of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles, predominantly trains, using magnetic levitation from a very large number of magnets for lift and propulsion."

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[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

What if the vehicle generated it's own magnetic field that was stronger than Earth's magnetic field? Would that work?

[Gene Inari]

No. Earth's magnetic field has nothing to do with anything on a person-sized scale.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

From Armageddon Online user Mezurashi:

"one of the recent suggestions I have heard discussed on TV (Discovery Channel) is that the future of mass ground transportation (cars, trucks, trains, etc) could become maglev sooner than we expected because of ever-developing technological refinements. Such as;

http://www.itkg.net/index.php?page=184

Just one 'new trick up the sleeve' we've found recently.

though I don't believe we're going to see All-Terrain Landspeeders any time soon, the realm of float-barge type refinement could come around sooner than we expect. for those who say the movie Minority Report I refer to a similar sort of thing to the highways as presented in that film, the grid-mesh ones. but again, nothing that complex is likely in the immediate now. I see more a moderate infrastructure retooling, say huge carpets of conductive mesh laid onto (or into) existing roadways which would allow for the maglev thing to occur without need of massive new contruction.

of course, the idea of Highly Focused Magentic Levitation has been kicked around for years. the theoretical Magnetic Monopole would certainly help (imagine a 'magnet' or magnetic source which is either a North or South pole only). the idea here, as best as I can figure, is that if you could generate a very strong but tightly focused magnetic 'beam' then you could levitate against the magnetic currents of the Earth itself. instead of repulsing up against a pre-set grid, you're doing so against the Earth's iron core, or something to that effect.

maybe that last proposition is how the Landspeeder (and other 'repulsor' tech) works in the SW universe.".

Think this guy's on the ball?