is anti-gravity possible to produce by amateurs like me?

Question

i've also heard of an engine that can go many times the speed of light using this and method to attract particles??

Answer 1

If you are asking about anti-gravity cos you've seen an episode of star trek who's anti gravity engines run on anti matter then the answer is NO.
I saw a program on the Sci-fi channel a few years back and an American guy had made a circular pad with about 1 metre radius which once turned on you could put any thing on it and it would just float in mid air, this guy just built it at his own leisure.

The question of moving at light speed is impossible for nearly anything except light, scientist now believe that it would be more feasible to bend space around an object so it would instantaneously leave one point in space and reappear in another

Answer 2

Yes. there is an easy way for amateurs to accelerate electrons to superluminal velocities, there my causing enough of a distortion in space-time for antigravity to occur. Here is what you do.

Step1: Gather the following items: a penny, a microwave oven, a potato, two metal salad forks, two pieces of copper wire, about 20 inches long, two dinnerplates, an incandescent lightbulb, a role of duct tape, a fire extinguisher, and a pair of eyegoggles.

Step 2: Put on goggles.

Step 3:stick the forks upright, about an inch apart, into the potato. Put the potato on one of the dinnerplates, and put the plate into the microwave oven.

Step 4: Duct tape each copper wire to a fork.

Step 5: Shut the microwave door, but make sure that the ends of the wires that are not attached to the forks are sticking out of the door. This may require drilling small holes in the door of your microwave, but this is a small price to pay to witness antigravity

step 6: put attack the each of the wires to the light bulb with duct tape. One wire should be touching the top of the bulb, the other should be touching the metal part. Put the light bulb, with the wires attached, onto the other dinner plate. set the penny on top of the lightbulb.

step 7. set the microwave to high, turn it on, and step back.

The forks will become electrically charged by the microwave's electromagnetic field. This will cause a potential difference to build up between the forks. When this voltage becomes high enough, dielectric breakdown will happen across the lightbulb, thereby accelerating the electrons in there to upwards of several billion times the speed of light. This will cause a subspace vortex that will negate gravity and cause the penny to levitate.

Answer 3

That depends on what you mean by "anti-gravity".

If you are thinking about harnessing the power of gravity to build an engine, you can do this, but not with any sort of effect that would impress a "Star Trek" audience. Physicists are still fussing about the nature of gravity (and how it is connected to electricity in a "grand unification theory) to know how to build an engine that uses it.

In fact, a more common machine using gravitational energy is a pendulum clock - ranging from a grandfather clock to a small cuckoo clock. The gravitational energy stored in the weights powers the clock.

When I think of anti-gravity devices at home in my own backyard, I think about magnets. Rare-earth magnets are really neat, somewhat dangerous things that have attraction (and repelling) forces of say, 50 pounds or more. Stick ten of those on a board and you've got 500 pounds of pull, or push, or lift. But be careful - pinching your fingers or hands between two strong magnets like that will cause screaming and swearing and trips to the ER...

Answer 4

It's possible to be weightless - by surrendering to gravity and entering a free-fall. Spaceships in the orbit do that, sky divers do that, and even some rollercoaster rides do it, albeit for a few seconds. Gravity, however, is one of the fundamental forces in the Universe. You can't just cancel it. You can overcome it with another force, but you can't make it dissapear. If you could, the whole Universe would probably fall apart and cease to exist.

Answer 5

both things you said are both impossible. antigravity is something that just exists like matter.

if you want to go into what created it originally, that is too much of a loaded question with religious debate so i won't go there.

As for going faster than the speed of light, that is impossible. It all boils down to the famous equation E=mc^2. It means energy is equal to mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Dont get confused. The only reason the speed of light is in the equation is because it is a converting factor for energy and mass. In other words, this much mass can produce this much energy.

Well, i won't put it here, but the reason it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light is because when you plug into the numbers into the equation you find that it would take an infinate amount of energy to get a finite amount of mass to go the speed of light, and likewise, an infinate amount of mass that could get accelerated to the speed of light by a finite amount of energy.

In order to get something to go faster than the speed of light, you would need to find a flaw in Einsteins famous equation. Even if you could do that, Einstein is such a houshold name that nobody would belief you anyway.

The best attempt I have seen so far to disprove Einstein was put forth by Joao Mangueijo who claims that the speed of light in the past traveled faster than it does today, but now it goes slower.

This attempt is the best because it solves a lot of our current cosmoligical problems, but it still won't stick at its present state because it is pure speculation and has absolutely no evidence to support it at all.

Answer 6

Anti-gravity
. What it implies probably will never happen.
A rocket roaring off into space. The reaction engine could be deemed to be an anti-gravity devise.

Answer 7

Since many physicists believe that anti-gravity is impossible, I doubt that an amateur could do it. Most physicists believe that it is impossible to go faster than the speed of light.

Answer 8

Anti-gravity is not possible, and anyway, anti-gravity in the end would result in perpetual motion. "Amateurs like me" have been "inventing" anti-gravity and perpetual motion machines for centuries, and none of them work.

Answer 9

So far, nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Not sure about the anti-grav, though.

Answer 10

Sorry - I would have answered sooner, except I kept on floating away from the keyboard.

It's taken me hours to get myself back on the ground !

( Damn, Anti-Gravity Boots !!! )