Anyone who has played with magnets knows it is possible to push one magnet along by forcing the north or south pole of another close to the same pole of the first. Such a magnetic shove wouldn’t be a bad form of propulsion if there were a way to keep it going. In fact, some Japanese scientists are trying to propel ships using this principle --- but instead of forcing actual magnets close to the ones built into their ships, they continually generate repulsing magnetic fields in the surroundseawater to push vessels along. Yoshiro Saji and his colleagues at the Kobe University of Mercantile Marine in Kobe, Japan, are convinced that their method of electromagnetic propulsion has the potential to moreficient,faster way of powering even large tankers.
Saji begins with a large electromagnet mounted along the ship’s sides. An electric current from on-board generators is then passed from one side of the ship to the other through conductive seawater, creating a magnetic force that pushes against the ship’s magnet. The seawater is driven backwards, and the ship is pushed forward, As the ship moves ahead, a current continually flows through a constant repulsive field to drive it onward, In a sense the ship is lifting itself by its own bootstraps.
The concept work well for ships and submarines useing magnetic fields to propel their vesles via water acting as the primary force being pushed on but as far as anyone knows no such medium has ever been discovered for air craft and if our government knows the truth their keeping it a closley guarded secrect.
2007-06-28 03:34:52
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answered by Anonymous
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My interest in physics is limited but I'm amazed at how ignorant some of the people who offer up 'answers' are.
So allow me to try and give you a satisfactory explanation. The quick and easy answer would be that it is indeed 'possible', yet we may be as far from our reach as a unified theory.
In modern physics the force of gravity is thought to be due to elementary particles known as Gravitons. There are fundamental problems with physically 'observing'these 'particles' but should we find an antiparticle for the Graviton and by some means manage to harness it antigravity propulsion would be very much within reach.
2007-06-28 01:15:30
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answered by yasiru89 6
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There are four fundamental forces in nature:
the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, the electromagnetic force, and the force of gravity. Even though gravity is the weakest of the four, it is based upon amounts of huge amounts of matter to have any noticeable force at all. So, to counter it, one would need to first find an prove there is such a thing as anti- or negative gravity. Then we would have to learn how to harness it.
Right now, we can somewhat manipulate the electromagnetic force in order to move things--like MagLev trains. But, even then we're not using an anti-magnetism, we're just using regular magnetism in a way to suit our needs. If we were to try and use gravitational force to move things [well, other than dropping them], we would have to create a gravitational field for an object that could counter the earth's gravitational field. Unless you have something more massive than the earth, the object will not generate a stronger field of its own. All we can really do is use things like differing air pressures, such as an air foil, or get a gravitational "slingshot" by having a satellite zip around a planet for a boost in speed.
Right now, based upon our knowledge of the physics of our universe and our technology, anti-gravity is only theoretical and therefore we are unable to harness and manipulate it. All we do now is use one of the other forces to counter gravity's relatively weak pull.
2007-06-27 23:50:54
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answered by quntmphys238 6
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to my current state of intellect (im not a monkey im an ape), no. gravitational force is produced by the entire body, and not by a core component in the center of the world. which brings me to a question that i will ask later on....
i don't think it can be reversed. just as quanta can't be seen.
2007-06-27 23:48:59
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answered by Anonymous
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yes it is .
There are certain amount of charge in each atoms and there is gravity , to define gravity in simple words its probably the charge which flows in each and every particle of this planet even inside us .
our solar is made of the same particles containing the same basics of atoms and there charges.
moving straight towards the string theory there is certain wave of motion in charge which implies the structure of a atom and its particle .
Magnet is a comman and most unique device as it contains a highly charged strings within the electrons and there by when matched to similar charges it produces a force of bombarded electrons containing highly charged strings and pushes the similar charge .
within few years after we will be able to develop tools which will able us to work within the electrons we will be able to produce electrons which can actually repulse the charge of this planet at certain levels and heights .
simply the anti gravity material
everything is possible in this impossible world
2007-06-27 23:55:02
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answered by THE Negative Character 3
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The best engineers in history have not been able to produce this, the answer is, no.
2007-07-01 05:58:54
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answered by johnandeileen2000 7
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Based on our current knowledge of physics, no.
2007-06-28 09:49:05
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answered by Frank N 7
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