anti grav! yay!

[Darth Rock&Roll]

bout time someone made some advances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4mdEdaRTDw

[qiphlow]

neat!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitron

[Bär]

I thought this thread was "anti-gravy". I think it's time for a feeding.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

ok, so lets place bets on how long it takes to make one that can hold a 200 lb human or 3 and have controlled flight.


My bets on , already been done and in teh works for a long time, just not publicized and mass marketed.

[Ben]

Does anyone know how it works? magnetic?

[JustinCobb]

Yes. Just ordinary magnetism.

[nianfong]

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.

-Fong

[I-mon]

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.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

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?

[qiphlow]

flying car, anyone?

[Craig]

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

[Darth Rock&Roll]

I think if they combine it with lifter tech they will be on their way to free energy and zero fuel input vehicles.

Loadstone will shoot through the roof in value, so buy up some futures!

[Bill]

This

http://www.rexresearch.com/desev/desev.htm

is much closer to anti-grav, imo. Amazing for 1964.
The guys on the show Mythbusters built a small one of these a year or so ago.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

This

http://www.rexresearch.com/desev/desev.htm

is much closer to anti-grav, imo. Amazing for 1964.
The guys on the show Mythbusters built a small one of these a year or so ago.

i believe that is an example of lifter tech.

i think if you make a spun copper ring and apply a positive charge, it will lift as if it was anti grav, but it is ion propelled.

I am also sure they have ion propulsion in the works for travel to mars and even have a couple of craft that are beyond testing.

[Darth Rock&Roll]