Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation [Anti-Gravity!]

PhysOrg.com ^ | 11 February 2006 | Staff

[VadeRetro]

I should have read more carefully. Your payload has to flit from star to star for its acceleration, repelled by their antigravity.

Beats me.

[Coyoteman]

Your payload has to flit from star to star for its acceleration, repelled by their antigravity.

If that's the downside, well I guess I could live with it.

[AMHN]

"Einstein rejected a 5-dimensional solution because it didn't feel right..."

Let's not forget, Einstein also rejected the cosmological constant and the expansion of the universe...I think he felt it didn't feel right either.

Later he claimed it was his biggest mistake...

[PatrickHenry]

At 57.7% of lightspeed, the relativistic effects aren't very great. Mass is only about 1.35 times your rest mass, and time has slowed only down to about 74% of your clock rate back on earth. You gotta really get going faster to get crazy effects.

[burzum]

This article was posted next year.

Dang! I was hoping to hear of the solution this year!

[grey_whiskers]

See my post #21 in this thread :-)

Cheers!

[mikrofon]

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It's not just a good idea...

It's ze Law!

[VadeRetro]

And yet the Felber effect kicks in there.

[Lurker]

Weeing flying cars would be horrifically painful, I'm sure.

L

[steve86]

So how do you slow down?

Rotate the narrow-angle tractor beam to the rear so it exerts braking force.

[longshadow]

. I still don't know what to make of this.

Here's hint: notice the style of the writing. This reads more like somebody trying to sell you a new car with a fancy new transmission technology than it does a serious science discovery.

That alone pegs my bullshit detector.

Additionally, as you've already pointed out, particle accelerators routinely accelerate particles well past 0.577c, so this effect should have already been seen in the lab for years if it were true.

And lastly, didn't "Physicist" post something a while back that basically showed that if you could "counter" the effect of gravity, then in principle you can build a perpetual motion machine to do useful work for free, which is to say it violates energy conservation.

But that's just my layman's take; I'll way for the big guns to weigh in on this.

[JRios1968]

So if you get to .57 the rest is free? How do you slow down?

Why, you simply have to put on the brakes, to slow down from Ludicrous Speed.

[VadeRetro]

If that's the downside, well I guess I could live with it.

It's a narrow beam projecting in front of you. So, to get the star in the beam, you essentially have to tell your spaceship to fly right through the star, or something close to that.

[mcshot]

Felber me up Franklin just doesn't have that ring...yet.

mc

[martin_fierro]

d'oh.

[O Neill]

" We're approaching Felber Speed, Sir ! "

Captain: 'Full Felber ahead, Mate!'

Mate: 'Aye, Captain...but she cawn't take much more. She's gonna blow!!'

[PatrickHenry]

Here's hint: notice the style of the writing

It's a press release, and apparently it's from Felber himself. I hope he's not jumping the gun and doing a "cold fusion" act. We shall see.

[burzum]

The jury is still out on whether Einstein's equations on general relativity were right, though. That's why they sent up a sattelite last year to test them.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that. There have been confirmation experiments since 1919 that have validated general relativity. The modern confirmation experiments tend to be more on the order of determining if general relativity is still accurate to some insane number of decimal places (similar to the experiments with QED). Physicists generally hope that there is a bump or an error in their measurements because it means that the theory is not completely refined, therefore giving them something to do! It may come to be that there is a certain range of velocities or masses at which GR does not follow observations (and physicists certainly hope this is the case!), but then it will be put in a similar place as Newtonian mechanics--valid over only a certain range.

[PatrickHenry]

Ping

[InterceptPoint]

New antigravity solution will enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century, he predicts.

This is simply unacceptable. I want my anti-gravity NOW. No excuses.