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First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity
CompaniaHill writes "Have scientists been able to artificially generate a gravitational field? Researchers at the European Space Agency believe so.
"Small acceleration sensors placed at different locations close to the spinning superconductor, which has to be accelerated for the effect to be noticeable, recorded an acceleration field outside the superconductor that appears to be produced by gravitomagnetism. This experiment is the gravitational analogue of Faraday's electromagnetic induction experiment in 1831."
The effect is very small, so don't expect to see it used in spacecraft any time soon. But the effect is still many times larger than the predictions of Einstein's theories.
"If confirmed, this would be a major breakthrough," says [Austrian researcher Martin] Tajmar. "It opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world.""
Its one small step for man, one slightly more difficult giant leap for mankind.
"It opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world."
but i'm running scared
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
I'm not positive, but I think this can be accomplished readily today using a cat, a large rubber band and some buttered toast.
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They won't be able to leap as far with it turned on though...
"The weirdest thing about a mind, is that every answer that you find, is the basis of a brand new cliche" -
but we don't call that artificial electricity.
Obviously that's because if they let on that it was artificial, elitist snobs would demand the real thing.
Like that time I got slapped for giving that lady artifical respiration..
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Have you watched any Hollywood movies lately?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
The tachyon reverse polarity quantum flux adds a degree of unpredictability to the energy output, dumbass. Though the heizenburg compensator is at full pelt, you aren't going to get the compensatory power fluctuation to work perfectly.
Any energineer worth his brains would recognize that nanites would provide this kind of appropriate, precise energy output readout, but of course, deployment of such self-aware entities increases chances of a artificial intelligence takeover, which would suck.
This method has never worked out in practice - it's only good for producing spinning, suspended cats.
If you try to attach a shaft to the cat to transfer the rotational energy, the cat will stop trying to land on it's feet, and cling to the shaft. Thus no work is produced.
Attempts have been made to glue magnets to the cat, which is then suspended in a coil. However, it appears that the natural static charge produced by the cat seems to cancel out the expected induced current.
Experiments are continuing with *shaved* cats. I'm thinking about publishing some preliminary results, in hopes of winning an IgNoble.
Experiments are continuing with *shaved* cats.
Step one: Shave Shrodinger's cat with Occam's razor...
If true, this would be pretty much the biggest breakthrough since Einstein.
And what a breakthrough he was! I don't recall who invented him, but man, they don't build jews like that anymore...
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