2007-09-16 07:51:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Its notoriously hard to foretell the future. In 1899, then Patent Commissioner, Charles H. Duell reportedly announced that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Obviously, he was wrong.
I remember reading an article in a science fiction magazine around 1960 that declared that ray guns were impossible since they would melt their own barrels. Within a year the laser was invented. We still don't have ray guns, but we could if we wanted to.
With Anti-Gravity, I'll probably make the same mistake that Commisioner Duell did, but I'm guessing No, we wont. Some science fiction inventions will remain just that. There just doesn't seem to be any basis for the concept. Its useful in science fiction, just like warp drive and shields, but thats all its ever likely to be: fiction. There's a good article in wikipedia.
2007-09-16 08:25:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, the closest thing in the universe to antigrav is dark energy, which is merely theoretical, but mag-lev trains such as the bullet train already exist and I think that is as close as we are going to get.
2007-09-16 18:27:59 · answer #2 · answered by scarmagista 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eventually, that is , if our infrastructure doesn't come crashing down first.
2007-09-16 15:02:32 · answer #3 · answered by Shifter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Ever" is an awfully long time.
I'd bet that we won't see them though
so I'd say no.
"Ever is not all that long for you & me.
2007-09-16 19:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by Irv S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think so. i believe the technology is already on the verge of being 'discovered'.
2007-09-16 15:30:43 · answer #5 · answered by deva 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably, you never know.
2007-09-16 16:14:27 · answer #6 · answered by Angel Eyes 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We can all dream on, can't we??
2007-09-16 16:14:19 · answer #7 · answered by Mark F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋