http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292392,00.html
it used to be what goes up MUST always come down. gravity.
its always been said that this theory woudl go bunk if someone could levitate something, which has been impossible. so the theory holds. well now scientists have at least gotten things to levitate at a quantum (nano) level. its a start, but in the future they should be able to get things to float. basically rewritting the science books.
i always tell believers in stict scientific knowledge and nothing else that they are fools. b/c what they believe religiously today will be proved wrong in the future. so those same “science and thats it people” are wrong today……b/c their science is wrong. kinda makes you think.
i would like to float however, back to the topic. just seems newton wasnt exactly correct in his assessment.
levitating is called removing the gravity field. like how you can cancel the magnetic field around something. you would need allot of energy though.
i know, but its still possible. which bunks the theory of gravity.
just like nothing can go faster than the speed of light, well who knows but in the future than could be proved wrong also. dark energy is a new field in physics and quantum computers and nano technology will revolutionize everything.
No, the fact that it is possible does not negate gravity.
As Cyan stated, and you said that “you knew”, it would take a lot of energy to accomplish… energy is FORCE, and FORCE is applied in a vector, one that would be equal to and opposite the effect of gravity.
And we have been able to do that on a pretty LARGE scale for decades now, on a modest scale for millenia.
Besides, had you read the article, it is NOT about levitation, it is about the reduction of FRICTION.
ok, its about a TYPE of levitation. using lower friction.
but notice how they say levitation is for small things……for now. everyone know the technology advances of the future will make many things possible. levitation would be one of these.
and that would break the law of gravity. our planes can go up, but not indefinitely. they must come down at some time, and they fly due to forces of push, drag, etc.
gravity will still be there, but it wont be the law of what goes up must go down. with new technology, you can break that theory. you can have something float forever if you wish to. which goes againt the theory.
and all science have exceptions to their rules. they just dont fully understand them. in time they will.
Dude, it is a reversal of attractive forces for particles smaller than protons. And you can already get protons to repel each other… they do it naturally…
right, if we can amplify something like that, there is a natural levitation. against gravity.
so the world already has things besides magnetic that go against gravity.
doesnt that break the law of gravity?
right, if we can amplify something like that, there is a natural levitation. against gravity.
so the world already has things besides magnetic that go against gravity.
doesnt that break the law of gravity?
were does it say you can’t use energy to counter act gravity?
using energy is the only way to do it. Can’t really do anything without energy.
And Switch is right. The laws of gravity still apply. Otherwise, jumping would be considered breaking the laws of gravity.
when you jump you come down.
when you use energy like a fuel, thats pushing against gravity and will keep you afloat.
this doesnt use some much energy right. they just place things correctly use their natural energy. which isnt man made energy.
so theoretically couldnt nature do this somehow at sometime, and would need man to arrange it? then it would be a natural thing that goes against gravity.
they use a example of a amphibian, the gecko, and how it uses these natural constructions to defy gravity.
It is still energy, just because it is not mechanical does not mean it is not energy.
Gravity is still just fine.
Birds fly. Gravity still works.
Planes fly. Gravity still works.
The space shuttle goes into space. Gravity still works.
We come back down after we jump because we stop countering gravity’s force.
When I drop a bowling ball off the roof and it doesn’t move to a lower elevation then you can say gravity is bunk.
I’m guessing that you failed or never took high school physics, Balung?
The law of gravity would not be bunk just because of levitation. :roll: Gravity can be overpowered by an outside force, but it is still present.
Lol, I had plans at one time to build a hovercraft from old vacuum cleaner parts. I never did it in part because it would have to be plugged in and therefore been limited to fifty feet of travel. With the balung anti gravity theory as long as it was plugged in I would have made a hole in the earths gravity. I suspect All Gore would have made a movie about me…
i’m still saying these forces are in nature.
so if nature constructed them itself, over millions of years, the way we humans did with technology, wouldnt that be a naturally occuring happenstance? so done by nature, objects theoretically, if put together correctly by nature, could levitate.
wouldnt that break the laws of gravity if you saw an object that could levitate w/o man made interference of it. nature was able to construct it itself (hypothetically).
so can anyone answer that.
if nature was able to constuct these minute particles into the same way we put them, so naturally the levitation occurs, wouldn’t that be against gravity? its a natural occurance (hypothetically) and if the world and nature had made something like that, some object, that would really mess with the theory of gravity right?
wouldnt that break the laws of gravity if you saw an object that could levitate w/o man made interference of it. nature was able to construct it itself (hypothetically).
what makes us special?
so can anyone answer that.
Yes, I can.
From the article, MAN altered the particles to reverse the forces. He did this with an application of energy to tap the existing energy to be applied in a different way.
Analogy:
2 magnetic particles with 1 having its S pole facing another particle’s N pole. They are drawn towards each other. Man interferes, flips one particle over so that both N poles are facing each other, the two particles are now forced apart.
We did not change the nature of magnetism by doing this, we USED the nature of magnetism. We applied outside energy to change the particles, and then let their existing energy provide the repulsion instead of attraction.
but again,
what if these forces that we set up, all we did was arrange them, what if they were arranged by nature of millions of years.
what would that do to the theory of gravity if newton had objects in the natural world to look at that can levitate?
thats what i’m trying to get at.
wouldnt that break the laws of gravity if you saw an object that could levitate w/o man made interference of it. nature was able to construct it itself (hypothetically).
what makes us special?
repeat. why does it being nature or man mature?
Literally speaking, the Space Shuttle violates the law of gravity if you want to define gravity as “What goes up must come down.” So does light. These things go up, but do not have to come down.
