Is Repulsorlift Technology Just Around the Corner?

Surfing the net tonight, I came across something fairly intresting. An article discussing antigravity experiments that could some day revolutionize flight as we know it. This link should allow you to view the article in question.

Looking over the article, and the near minute long video clip that goes with it, I got the distinct impression that this sounded just like a fairly basic description on how a repulsorlift works. In fact, looking up repulsorlifts on the OS, my impression that this sounds like a description of how a repulsorlift works only grew stronger. Repulsorlifts are antigravity engines which push against a gravity field. This sounds to some extent like what is happening here. There is no engines like what one may find in a jump jet or a hovercraft to lift the experimental "vehicles" used in these experiments.

If these "vehicles" are in fact succesful, could this bring us one step closer to repulsorlift technology becomeing a reality and not merely something to be found in Star Wars? Could we, or perhaps our children or grand-children, someday be purchasing actual landspeeders rather than cars?

 

I hope so.

 

neato

 

That particular version of "AntiGrav" is BS. There are a few organizations who are putting money into the study of possible technologies, NASA and Boeing among them.

There is a spin cylinder experiment that is said to have decreased the weight of an object, it was done a few decades ago, but the "inventor" never gave out the plans for the device. This has prevented anyone from copying it exactly and proving or disproving the thing.

If I am not mistaken Boeing did alude to some kind of success, but the decrease in mass for the object was less than 1%, don't get your hopes up that even that is some kind of beginning, with the right setup you can make an object with a nice little magic trick.

The only real possibility I have read about is through the use of rapidly rotating magnetic fields, the equations to which I could not even begin to explain to you here.

There are all kinds of possible loop holes, but the problem is getting technology to overcome the most basic laws of nature.

I suppose there are also possibilities in the use of Superstring therory, but we are only beginning to put those ideas together.

 

Interesting........they should get Stephen Hawking working with them. I just finished his book, "A Brief History of Time" and he knows physics like no one else. If we ever did get up to space, as in like everyone having ships, he has several theories about wormholes opening, thus creating hyperspace.I won't bore you with the specifics, but it is plausible that we could have hyperspace in the kinda near future (Not so bad for a 13 year old, huh?)

 

Interesting article if it is true. I also once read of a tesla coil experiment where (as a side effect) the force of gravity seemed to decrease. Using an electronic gravity counter, the gravity seemed to decrease, but when they used the simple hands-on pendulem experiemnt, it turned out that the electronic device was wrong. Don't get me wrong though, i am all for repulsarlift tech. I could drive a speeder to work.

 

well... there is already magnetic repulsion technology

~NiKe, DaRK LaDy oF THe SiTH~

 

Wait about 10 more years.

 

i'm all for technology but i prefer something with wheels... or anything else that is physically touching the ground. just give me a car with an engine that doesn't pollute and i'm fine

or better yet, a motorcycle

~NiKe, DaRK LaDy oF THe SiTH~

 

Well, just look ath the Harrier fighter jets.
Those babies can go at a vertical takeoff and can even 'hover'.
Perhaps soon, though, we'll have real repulsor technology.
And then I can finally get my swoop.

 

The Harrier uses pre-exsisting technology to lift off. And the exhaust from such technology, at least what Westover AFB was saying in the early '90s, would do too much damage on a standard runway. This would not produce jet exhuast to lift the plane off the ground.