Paul Jay's Ponderings

If somehow an inexpensive way to get around gravity was discovered and made public knowledge, what would you do? I have a feeling that I'd give it a shot. And if it were seemingly reliable enough, I'd try to figure out how to make a run for it. That's right, as nice as this planet seems to be, if I could gather enough resources to live in space for a while I'd give it a shot. Of course gathering those resources might be a bit more difficult, but if enough like-minded individuals could get together on such a project, not too far-out given the circumstances. Even something crude like an old propane tank with heavy glass portals added and a lot of plastic water containers on it for shielding could work. Besides it'd would just have to only hold one atmosphere, resist micrometeorites, and limit radiation to some degree. If anti-gravity could be produced at a much lower energy requirement than chemical rockets, then getting such a crude rig where you wanted it wouldn't be too big a deal. I guess having working spacesuits to make such a venture worthwhile and having guidance/navigation facilities adequate for space travel would be much bigger problems...

However, if anti-gravity did become readily available and achievable through simple means... I wonder if people really would be content to stay, or would there be quite an exodus despite how suicidal and risky it seems.

Personally, I think being one of the earlier settlers on Mars might be neat.

Labels: escape, gravitics, gravity, planet, sci-fi

Out of curiosity, I wonder how many people would take off (even if temporarily) if they had access to cheap and affordable anti-gravity technology? Think about it, with the right pressure vessel (just has to hold one atmosphere differential, some welding skills and a big compressed air tank should do) and anti-grav heading for space would be a lot less harder. Still unless it was an hour jaunt or so (wheee!), there'd be the issue of working out life support, space suits, air locks. But hell, at least you really know that you could get away from all the B.S. if you wanted. Anti-grav technology if it existed, would also mean that c is no longer the speed limit (you'd get over that whole inertia thing.) So if you had the time to work it out, you could also leave the solar system. Find other planets, maybe one with breathable air and edible plants and/or critters. Now that could be fun, afterall it's the basis for a lot of sci-fi.

Labels: earth, excaping, gravitics, randomness, sci-fi

Let's say there's a particle that's the opposite of the neutron and it can't really annihilate a neutron because it carries no charge. (It's like slamming inert objects into each other, not much bang to it.) But it does displace space, and being the opposite it will still try to get at the neutron. But the magnetic forces/dynamics inherent in atoms push these particles out like little spinning tops.

So these little displaced things take up volume and push the atoms together. Regular charges don't affect anti-neutrons, since the opposite charge of neutral is neutral. :p You get enough of this stuff, and it probably accounts for matter that can't be accounted for. That and its displacement might have something to do with the phenomena we call gravity. (Think of it as a relational vector buoyancy between objects based upon relative displacement rather than a direct field effect force. But that's crazy, isn't it?)

But you could probably find some neat things if you could tweak magnetic fields right. I'd be willing to bet you could do some neat photo-electric things with 'em as well. You might be able to change the particle to something other than an anti-neutron or make it blind to the neutron and slip on by.

This just might be the trick to kick-starting gravitics, and anti-neutrons just might be axions. But what do I know.

Labels: anti-neutrons, boredom, gravitics, randomness