PSI Blog 20210301 Anti-gravity?
Thanks to Tao Lin
for the first question of the week:
“I highly enjoyed your book Infinite Universe Theory. Thank
you for your stunning and informative work. Now on to my question, which
doesn't directly relate to the universe being infinite, but is connected.
This might sound crazy to you, depending on what you’ve
read, but in my research, I’ve become pretty convinced that both
extraterrestrials and humans have mastered anti-gravity, allowing UFOs, both
alien and manmade, to fly in ways that defy conventional physics. Based on your
theory of gravity, Aether Deceleration Theory, can you speculate on a possible
way to achieve anti-gravity?”
[GB: Tao, thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed the book. You will
be getting the first prize. I listed your choices below.[1] Please
let me know which one you would like.
Because gravitation is an acceleration, any device that
counteracts that acceleration is what might be called an “anti-gravity”
machine. Anything that temporarily leaves the surface of Earth could be called
such. I guess I am one of those “machines” when I jump off the surface of the
snow while skiing. To your point, a rocket is an anti-gravity machine. Unfortunately,
all anti-gravity machines require fuel, except when getting a “gravitational
assist” when passing a massive cosmological body surrounded by decelerated
aether having reduced aetherial pressure.
With respect to visits from aliens traveling from the nearest
star, Wikipedia says this:
“The journey to Alpha Centauri B orbit would take about 100
years, at an average velocity of approximately 13,411 km/s (about 4.5% the
speed of light) and another 4.39 years would be necessary for the data to begin
to reach Earth.”
Also:
“The fastest
outward-bound spacecraft yet sent, Voyager 1, has covered 1/600 of a light-year
in 30 years and is currently moving at 1/18,000 the speed of light [16.7 km/s].
At this rate, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take 80,000 years.”
So, don’t get your
hopes up about traveling to the stars anytime soon or receiving visits from aliens.
Looks like “social distancing” with regard to Centauri is permanent. Accessible
alien life would have to be in our own solar system. NASA has looked at the
planets and their moons pretty well—no sign of extraterrestrial civilizations above
ground at least. Looks like we can leave the UFO trope to the conspiracy
theorists.
Of course, the quest
for a truly miraculous anti-gravity machine has been a dream even before Einstein’s
perfectly empty space nonsense made it seem possible. The imagined machine would
exist as a solitary system within an environment of nothingness (e.g., “space-time”).
It supposedly would reverse gravitation by manufacturing “anti-gravity” within
itself, perhaps by producing a magical “pull” to counter the magical “pull” some
still believe to be the cause of gravitation. But those silly ideas stem from the
failure to understand the univironmental nature of the physical cause of gravitation.
They are some of the more grievous products of the assumption of finity and its associated aether denial.
Tao, as you know, univironmental
determinism claims that what happens to a portion of the universe depends on
the infinite matter within and without. As you surmised, the analysis of the quest
for anti-gravity has very much to do with Infinite Universe Theory. As I
explained in Aether Deceleration Theory,[2]
gravitation is an acceleration. Per Newton's Second Law of Motion, all accelerations
require an accelerator, something that can produce collisions with other things.
In the case of gravitation, once having collided with baryonic (ordinary)
matter, the causative particles (aether) become decelerated per Newton’s law.
The aetherial pressure around massive bodies decreases as a result, while its
density increases. Gravitational potential is the difference between the distal
pressure of aether and its proximal pressure.
To reverse that
situation indeed would be miraculous. That vision would have to remain
imaginary—it never could happen. One would have to accelerate all the decelerated
aether particles proximal to any material body to velocities greater than those
of distal aether particles. Even if that were possible, the energy required
would be greater than the resulting anti-gravity effect. It would be like
cutting down an entire forest just to get a single piece of lumber. Looks like
we will have to be satisfied with practical anti-gravity engines similar to the
ones we have already.]
[1] "The
Ten Assumptions of Science" (pdf, ebook, paperback,
hardcover); "The Scientific Worldview" (ebook, paperback, hardcover, audiobook);
“Universal Cycle Theory” (pdf); “Infinite Universe Theory”; (Kindle, b&w or
color paperback), "Religious Roots of Relativity" (Kindle,
b&w or color paperback).
[2] Borchardt,
Glenn, 2018, The Physical Cause of Gravitation: viXra:1806.0165