Anti-Gravity....Can anyone help me out here?
I'm a senior biochem major so I'm not exactly illiterate when it comes to this type of science but my older brother who is quite the theororiest was trying to explain to me how he read somewhere that someone had taken a sub atomic particle (I assume an electron) and used a superconductor and somehow created a gravitational field with it. He also mentioned how it broke one of the laws of thermodynamics but he can't account for which one exactly. There seemed to be a lot of holes in his explanation but it seemed to him to be some very promising findings in terms of future technology.
Does this sound vaguely familiar to anyone and could you elaborate on this? 10 points goes to the best and most helpful elaboration.
2006-11-27 08:38:07 · 4 answers · asked by Shortstuff71 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
OK people, he's getting his masters in English so his understanding of science is a little off so try and cut him some slack. He also said this while intoxicated (as I'm sure many of you were this past weekend) so it's legitimacy is questionable.
We were talking about what gravity and large bodies of mass have in common. He mentioned this and then I had to try and decipher what exactly he meant. He never mentioned fusion or fission using neutrons and besides I figured he is at least attuned to some degree with that type of science. Alas, the details are somewhat vague so I apologize but maybe his incoherence correlates to an incorrectness in what he said.
2006-11-27 12:29:30 · update #1
Every particle is going to have a gravitational field. When dealing with atomic or sub atomic particles, there are only two ways you can increase the gravitational field. It can be altered by adjusting the size (number of neutrons) or by altering the charge (protons and electrons). It seems that if the charge of an electron could be increased with a superconductor, it would have a greater attraction to protons around it. As a result, the pull would be stronger and the gravity would increase.
The only part that I don't understand is how you can increase the charge of an electron. A "super conductor" is pretty vague. I have heard of people using particle accelorators to crash neutrons into atoms to split them up or remove electrons. This also increases the charge and therefore increases the atom's attraction to other particles.
I hope that helps.
2006-11-27 08:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by Wiseass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that rings a bell with me is the "gravitational field". He may be referring to nuclear fusion, which hasnt been accomplished yet for more than a few seconds. A magnet, electricity, etc is used to heat a deuterium and tritium atom (or another combination) to temperatures similar to that of the sun so that they will fuse and release great amounts of energy. This is what happens within a hydrogen bomb, but researchers have been working for decades to harness it as an energy source. Check out the ITER (international tokomak experiment), that is the reactor that several countries are teaming together to build in france. hope this helps:)
2006-11-27 08:48:11 · answer #2 · answered by chanel217 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I see only two plausible possibilities:
(1) Your brother is playing tricks on you.
(2) So much was lost in translation that what you wrote bears no resemblance to the original work.
2006-11-27 11:34:33 · answer #3 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
source? because your declare isn't genuine. some do. some are deists - that signifies that god leaves you and the remodeling into to its personal contraptions and doesn't care what occurs. some are Panentheists - that signifies that existence is a multidimensional journey and we are god(s). some are atheists. the large MINORITY believe in God. Are you getting your information from Conservapedia?
2016-10-07 21:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by grego 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋