Expressed in the simplest of terms, it should be some kind of force which would oppose gravitation, annul it and make possible the levitation of bodies.
For physicists, antigravitation is a nonsense, since no such mass exists which could repel another mass, prevent the spread of gravitation or, like Verne's Cavorite, isolate a body from its influence. According to understanding available to date, this cannot be achieved – either by way of anti-matter or by some field.
For SF writers antigravitation and levitation are very desirable, but also so fantastic that their achievement and use by man are regarded as impossible, that even authors of this field are not too keen to write about those things, and they rarely do so.
For various “inventors” antigravitation is, just as it is for constructors of a perpetuamobile, a possibility of achieving fame by constructing some kind of anti-gravitational flying craft.
In the my previous work: “How the velocity of light can be excedeed”, I have shown that light is not a special // separate (or positive) physical entity and that velocity of light, c, is not the property of light itself but is, in fact, a vacuum or space transference constant - the ability or property of vacuum // space to transfer electromagnetic impulses at precisely that and only at that speed.
Using the existing methods and accelerators I have also shown that it was not possible to accelerate the particles to a speed exceeding the velocity of light, c, in other words, that this is not possible, not due to the increase the particle mass, m, but because the acceleratory effect of force F, which affects the particle - and which is transferred exclusively at the velocity of light, c, - falls towards zero when at the velocity of the particle v that is close to the velocity of light c.
Superluminal particle accelerator, download white paper
I wish to propose that the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 1999 be awarded to the writer Arthur C. Clarke, presently resident at: Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The works on which I base my proposal that Mr. Clarke be awarded the Nobel Prize are his novels Childhood’s End, and City and Stars.
Although the rest of the opus created by Mr. Clarke represents just as respectable a basis for the award of a Nobel Prize, I shall restrict myself to formulating my proposal on the two works that I have quoted.
As you know, Mr. Clarke is an author of SF literature, and I am fully cognisant of the fact that the great majority of literary theoreticians do not regard such literature as being either serious or valuable. To date, a Nobel prize has never been awarded for an SF opus, although some of the authors who did receive the prize are, in addition to writing the usual and fully accepted genres, also authors of well known SF works for example, William Golding, 1983.
If satellites were motionless, they would rapidly plummet to Earth - but they don't because of a magic ratio between forward velocity and the rate at which they fall, giving them a stable orbit at any altitude. This concept captivated Professor Petar Bosnic, leading him to a simple question: could a rapidly rotating ring create lift in the same manner that a satellite remains in free-fall? He joins us to talk about his vision for a new propulsion from the concept of "Gravifugal Force"
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