Two papers on the subject, the result of 250 experiments over the course of 3 years, are currently being considered for publication, so this isn't the product of a tinfoil-hat fever dream. The experiment is being described as "the gravitational analogue of Faraday's electromagnetic induction experiment in 1831".
How incredibly cool is this?
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Interesting. The article noted the existence of non-theoretical applications, but I wish they's gone into more detail.
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Well, if we could create gravitational fields of sufficient strength they'd be a pretty useful form of propulsion in spaceships. And of course, in zero gravity enviromnents we could just create our own. I'm sure that there are all sorts of more subtle uses that haven't occurred to me yet, but those two alone would be huge.
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Its nice to see them doing something other then slamming small particles together at high speeds just to see what happens.
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Noemon, that's the sort of stuff that occurred to me, but I was curious to know if they thought it was realistic. Like, remember when scientists found a way to "teleport" subatomic particles? I rememeber reading that they did not think this would ever lead to being able to teleport objects or people, but possibly to near-instantaneous information transfer.
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Yeah Icarus, if the types of things I was talking about are made possible by this technology they'll be a long way down the road, I'm sure. I expect that we'll hear more about this once the papers have been made available for peer review.
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Two papers on the subject, the result of 250 experiments over the course of 3 years, are currently being considered for publication, so this isn't the product of a tinfoil-hat fever dream. The experiment is being described as "the gravitational analogue of Faraday's electromagnetic induction experiment in 1831".
How incredibly cool is this?
Does that mean they'll be able to use it to fly, and to single people out on the basis of their DNA, like the gravitomagnetic fields in Heinlein's The Sixth Column?
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This is definatly something i would want to read more about. This type of thing could have a ton of posibilities
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Enigmatic, are you mad? If they reverse the polarity before they've reconfigured the deflector dish, that will mean certain doom!
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If they can use this effect to generate gravity waves, does anyone know if the waves will have the same speed as an EM wave?
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An interesting Slashdot comment I read: "Artificial gravity is not the real exitement around this experiment. The really important part is, you know, experimental evidence that may provide insight into the unification of relativity and quantum mechanics."
I'm going to abstain from discussion, though, until I know enough to say something worth putting forward.
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This thread is a mixed review for me. On the one hand the actual information is very cool (thanks Noemon), but on the other hand I'm irritated at myself and at you bums for getting to all the good Star Trek jokes before I could.
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streams is andromeda, a scifi show I never quite understood.
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I guess the first question we need to ask is: How long before we can make this into some sort of weapon?
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lol, kinda like the internet is for porn thing.
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