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whoa, justin's back. welcome back dude. I have friends on the LIGO project. if the gravity wave is understood (or even exists), it's possible that antigrav could exist in our lifetime.
This is just mag lev. they made a train based on the concept in japan. but it ended up costing too much. I believe they then succeeded in building a mag lev train around shanghai.
yeah the shanghai mag lev is pretty cool. it's completely pointless and impractical in that it takes you from the airport to a train station way on the edge of town and you then have to change lots of platforms to another train or get a taxi, and it's not cheap, but man it goes fast! there's no friction to deal with i guess. it doesn't reach a cruising speed it just accelerates and then keeps on accelerating and accelerating until it's cruising around this big curve on a 45 degree angle and then it slows down and you're there. takes about 10 minutes.
the major point here is about how stationary magnets cannot produce sustained levitation and control, but, magnets in motion are different.
i think mag lev trains involve an electrical charge being applied to the stationary magnets? which in turn activates the molecular structure into motion?
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i guess its a halfway step but its not really useful technology until they can do that without having anything underneath it. either that or they are planning to build this stuff into the ground everywhere