The Quest for Gravity Controll......
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 10:07 am
.......Where fact meets Fiction.
In a very odd episode of Horizon screened a day or two ago [Project Greenglow; the Quest for Gravity Controll] an overview was given into the strange world of 'serious science's' attempts to get to grips with the problem of gravity - why it has no 'polarity' [ie why matter only ever attracts other matter and never repels it unless another force is involved], and can it be manipulated in the way that say, the emf can. It seems that in the 90's both BAE and NASSA were very interested in finding new methods of providing propulsion for space vehicles [though BAE's first interest was in the use of gravity waves to detect 'stealth' aircraft] and funded significant work to investigate the potential of new theoretical advances in our understanding of the nature of this fundamental force.
In both cases they [purpotedly] dropped all work in the field, and the program had two rather embittered scientists, one from each institution, both of whom claimed the plug had been pulled on some very promising potential advances - mainly for financial reasons. Both establishments provided rather terse statements saying they were 'no longer working in that field' but later in the program both did however contribute with short segments on work that they were carrying out within the area of new propulsive technologies. Oddly at the very end even The British Department of Defence allowed the previous head scientist from BAE's 'Project Greenglow' into the defence establishment at Porton Down in order to see work they were doing that just might bring the ideas back to life.
There were no major breakthroughs [that we were made party to - but then, would we be?] made by either BAE or NASSA, but recent ideas put forward by a Russian Scientist - and soon to be put to the test at CERN - might just point a way forward. This guy - Dragon Someboby or another - goes deep into the quantum realm for an explanation as to what is going on in respect of why it is that the Universe, instead of colapsing in on itself as one would expect under the influence of gravity, seems to be expanding and all the matter in it accelerating away from itself. Whence, is the question, this acceleration - where does it come from....and the traditional answer is 'dark-energy' [which no-one knows a thing about - but you have to stick it in there to make the sums work]. What happens, says Dragon, is that as the form of space boils and bubbles with matter/anti-matter pairs flashing into existance and then immediately anhialating each other, for the briefest of an instant the matter particle is attracted to the matter of suns, planets etcand this produces a polarity alighnment [like fillings sitting on top a magnet] of the particle pairs where all the matter is directed inward and the anti-matter outward. This produces an anti-matter gravitational force 'envelope' around each sun, planet, moon etc - and it is this that is driving the acceleration of matter away from itself in the expanding Universe.
It's a good enough idea for CERN to have allocated him time to test the theory, and they are at present trying firstly to create enough stable anti-hydrogen to carry out a test to see if it does indeed 'fall upward'. Enter the guys at Porton down who took our 'all pissed of' guy from BAE in to a empty hanger [nothing for the russkies to see there!] and showed him a sreeen with a stable piece of anti-matter that seemed to be repulsed by just the presence of a human body coming close to it. The cagy defence guy even went so far as to say that there might be life in the old Project Greenglow yet!
All through the program you got the feeling that there was much more you weren't being told than what you were, and given the obvious defence applications of the work that's hardly suprising, but one wonders just exactly how far these guys have really got along the path toward controlling gravity. Find this and see it if you can, it's weird stuff presented by a highly respected popular science program.
[Postcript; Some of the other 'techs' they showed were quite interesting. One guy said that 'negative matter' [wtf is that?] could be used to create an effective 'warp drive'. Another was convinced that his 'n-drive' [or was it 'm'] was the way forward. These guys were the 'nutty proffessors' on the edges of the field, running the very real risk of total ostracisation by the fields they had achieved eminance in, by simply placing too much belief in an idea that might not hold water. Brave guys. Respect.]
In a very odd episode of Horizon screened a day or two ago [Project Greenglow; the Quest for Gravity Controll] an overview was given into the strange world of 'serious science's' attempts to get to grips with the problem of gravity - why it has no 'polarity' [ie why matter only ever attracts other matter and never repels it unless another force is involved], and can it be manipulated in the way that say, the emf can. It seems that in the 90's both BAE and NASSA were very interested in finding new methods of providing propulsion for space vehicles [though BAE's first interest was in the use of gravity waves to detect 'stealth' aircraft] and funded significant work to investigate the potential of new theoretical advances in our understanding of the nature of this fundamental force.
In both cases they [purpotedly] dropped all work in the field, and the program had two rather embittered scientists, one from each institution, both of whom claimed the plug had been pulled on some very promising potential advances - mainly for financial reasons. Both establishments provided rather terse statements saying they were 'no longer working in that field' but later in the program both did however contribute with short segments on work that they were carrying out within the area of new propulsive technologies. Oddly at the very end even The British Department of Defence allowed the previous head scientist from BAE's 'Project Greenglow' into the defence establishment at Porton Down in order to see work they were doing that just might bring the ideas back to life.
There were no major breakthroughs [that we were made party to - but then, would we be?] made by either BAE or NASSA, but recent ideas put forward by a Russian Scientist - and soon to be put to the test at CERN - might just point a way forward. This guy - Dragon Someboby or another - goes deep into the quantum realm for an explanation as to what is going on in respect of why it is that the Universe, instead of colapsing in on itself as one would expect under the influence of gravity, seems to be expanding and all the matter in it accelerating away from itself. Whence, is the question, this acceleration - where does it come from....and the traditional answer is 'dark-energy' [which no-one knows a thing about - but you have to stick it in there to make the sums work]. What happens, says Dragon, is that as the form of space boils and bubbles with matter/anti-matter pairs flashing into existance and then immediately anhialating each other, for the briefest of an instant the matter particle is attracted to the matter of suns, planets etcand this produces a polarity alighnment [like fillings sitting on top a magnet] of the particle pairs where all the matter is directed inward and the anti-matter outward. This produces an anti-matter gravitational force 'envelope' around each sun, planet, moon etc - and it is this that is driving the acceleration of matter away from itself in the expanding Universe.
It's a good enough idea for CERN to have allocated him time to test the theory, and they are at present trying firstly to create enough stable anti-hydrogen to carry out a test to see if it does indeed 'fall upward'. Enter the guys at Porton down who took our 'all pissed of' guy from BAE in to a empty hanger [nothing for the russkies to see there!] and showed him a sreeen with a stable piece of anti-matter that seemed to be repulsed by just the presence of a human body coming close to it. The cagy defence guy even went so far as to say that there might be life in the old Project Greenglow yet!
All through the program you got the feeling that there was much more you weren't being told than what you were, and given the obvious defence applications of the work that's hardly suprising, but one wonders just exactly how far these guys have really got along the path toward controlling gravity. Find this and see it if you can, it's weird stuff presented by a highly respected popular science program.
[Postcript; Some of the other 'techs' they showed were quite interesting. One guy said that 'negative matter' [wtf is that?] could be used to create an effective 'warp drive'. Another was convinced that his 'n-drive' [or was it 'm'] was the way forward. These guys were the 'nutty proffessors' on the edges of the field, running the very real risk of total ostracisation by the fields they had achieved eminance in, by simply placing too much belief in an idea that might not hold water. Brave guys. Respect.]
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