A lot of people say Anit-Gravity isn't viable, Why?

Question

Several years ago, on an ancient TV news program called 60 minutes, there was a story of one individual who did succeed in producing the effect of anit-gravity, this individual also documented the experiement on film.

Unfortunately the individual was an eccentric who was not a professional scientist, but rather a modern day "mad scientist", just a guy that liked to tinker and experiment.

It wouldn't be accurate to say that many have tried and failed, when one tried and succeeded.

Its unfortunate that this so called mad scientist wasn't a properly trained researcher, who would of documented every aspect of the experiment. To duplicate and determine the why and what that made the experiment work.

Still, because this crazy guy did succeed, doesn't mean that there isn't any hope. But rather researchers shouldn't give up the endeavour.

If one can do it, even if it takes another three hundred years to figure it out. So will someone else succeed, eventually.

Answer 1

It's possible you're thinking of Professor Eric Laithwaite. Professor Laithwaite was a highly respected engineer, who amongst other achievements developed the linear induction motor. Unfortunately, in later life he came to believe that gyroscopes could be used for reactionless propulsion - one of his "demonstrations" was an apparent anti-gravity effect.

Oh, btw, it wasn't exactly ancient!

Answer 2

There are numerous ways to over come gravity - for instance, opposing magnetic fields comes to mind.

Unfortunately, the term "anti-gravity" indicates that somehow we have neutralized or eliminated gravity - and this isn't viable - at least at the present time with our present technology and knowledge. Gravity is a force which is closely related to both mass (energy) and space - and until we understand exactly how these factors are intertwined, we'd just be spinning our wheels.
One things for sure, if we find a way to negate gravity, it will take an equal amount of energy as the object affected will gain to levitate it. Perhaps this knowledge alone is why there's not a whole lot of serious research going on to negate gravity.

Answer 3

Anti gravity is not something that my mind has any knowlegde of. However I to have been pondering this kind of subject for a while. I think the answer to the way we have seen flying saucers operate is, magnetic fields. I believe this because it answers soo many other questions, for example why don't we seen windows on "UFO's" ? The answer here is that the image processing device is the same as that of MRI scanners found in hospitals. These machines use a radio wave within a uniform magnetic field. Some of the radio energy disappears into atoms of odd atomic numbers, anyway back to the spirit of Your question. I think that there is no such thing as anti gravity, sorry. But I think that what we see from UFO's is the use of magnetic fields that are naturally generated by celestral bodies, and most of them create these fields. The other problem with the idea of anti gravity is that gravity itself is a relatively weak force when compared to others. We feel the pull of gravity at about 10 metres per second a second. The Earth, like all things in our experence, is made up of atoms. Atoms have neutrons, protons and eletrons. Electrons are attracted to protons through electromagnetism. The protons neutrons make up the core, which takes up very little space of the atom. The electrons are particles of all most no mass, however they orbit the core and are responsible for taking up most of the atom's volume. And it is these electrons interacting with each other that form the rules of our World. So if one were to fall off a tall building they would fall to the ground at a devastating rate, but they would be stopped by electrons in the sidewalk, they would not fall to the centre of the Earth.
I believe that these kind of machines would change the economic landscape and that's why we do not see them, imagine no roads! cool a. ANYWAY I think the actual answer to Your question lies within another question of why does a heilum ballon rise? Ligher yes of course but how does heilum in a ballon interact with the other heavier gasses? I believe through magnetic fields that electrons create as they move. Have You seen the pattern a welding cable arranges iron filings into? I wonder how someting soo smaller can do this. AS to the unfortunate "mad" scientist he drummed out because the mainstream does not consider what it can not see and touch. A magazine article worth reading is in New scientist January 12 2002. NASA has employed a Russian by the name of Podketnov to build a pulse wave gravity generator of some kind. He claims he can knock a book over place on end at a distance of a kilometre. I looked at this and in my mind I would say that he would have to see the book first! Looking at the picture of Podketnov's machine my opinion is that is has little or nothing to do with gravity. Have a look see what You think... Unfortunately the web resouce didn't show picture, I think You'll need the magazine itself ... I recon that these machines should look something like the model of the atoms taught to children in senior schooling. If heilum goes up, why not build a bigger version, gotter be worth a shot...
I Think anti gravity isn't viable because we have only seen it work in one direction on everything. I believe magnetic fields are viable because we have seen then attract, repel. And they are selective.

Answer 4

There are many phenomea of repulsion . It happens inside the atom. Even Quantum mechanics has identified the point where the electron is repulsed from the Nucleous. Like poles of magnets repulse . An airplane flying in the sky works againt gravity to stay up. Its quite an anti gravity device.The TGV in the train rails of Europe are basically on the principle of anti gravity.
For indicating that anti gravity does not exist would be admiting to have discovered the secret of gravity. I dont believe that physics has understood or explained the real mechanism of gravity yet.

Answer 5

As of this time we do not know how to make anti-gravity. If the "mad scientist" succeeded then where are all the applications of his apparatus?

However, we do know that anti-gravity does exist. Astronomers have found that galaxy clusters are moving faster and faster apart in spite of their gravitational attraction. Thus there must be a force that is overcoming the attraction and speeding up the universe's expansion. It's just that they don't know how to produce this "dark energy" here on earth. But they are studying it so maybe sometime in the future we can produce it.

Answer 6

Hehehe. I remember hearing about that. But it was never proven (one way or the other) if the guy had actually succeeded or if it was a scam. Documenting something on film isn't worth wasting the celluloid. And videotape is even worse. After all, didn't one of the more famous illusionists make a jumbo jet 'disappear' in front of a film crew?

But the idea isn't all that crazy. We just don't know quite enough about how gravity actually 'works' to be able to do it yet. And that certainly isn't 'proof' that it can't be done. We just don't know how to do it..... Yet ☺


Doug

Answer 7

That guy did not succeed. There are many ways to make something fly, from magnetic fields to air currents and countless other ways. What he claimed was anti gravity was really something else. It just looked like anti gravity because that is what he said it was.

If the laws of physics are really what we think they are, then anti gravity is impossible. It is impossible to design a machine that obeys the laws of physics as we understand them to make anti-gravity. Now if if he discovered new physics, that would be different. But he didn't. Or at least he didn't publish the theory for others to look at and either disprove or learn from, like Galileo, Newton and Einstein did.

Answer 8

If an object could be made to defy gravity, the possibility should be viable as long as the energy cost is not less than whatever would be released by dropping it back to the ground.

Answer 9

On this planet we have gravity because the planet itself.
So you cannote escape this force.
It is nice to note that gravity and magnetism are rueld by rules that can be mathetically described in the same way.
ectromagnetic fields to create a force to balance the force of gravity on a metal object it is something realistic.
If you are upon the object you can fly.
But yet somewhere you should have somewhere something that "attracts" the metal object
Having a machine that target a planet and generate "attraction" toward the planet so that the machine can escape the gravity of our planet and fly it is something that "attract" my fantasy :-)

Answer 10

Until you repeal the law of conservation of energy, it's an impossible phenomenon.
If an anti-gravitational field existed, you could move an object into the field, raise it with no energy required, then extract energy from it as it fell back to the original level.