This is truly YUGE! http://www.bbc.com/news/science-env...ng&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
A hundred years after electromagnetic waves were found to propagate, every home, office, and factory is full of electrical devices. A hundred years from today's proof of concept, every home, office, and factory will be full of devices using gravitational energy instead of electricity. I plan to see it.
When scientists figure out how to transmit this new energy through wires, then miniaturize them into chips, there will be a lot of new toys under the Christmas tree, which will be lit up by similar wires leading to wall plugs connected to a grid of gravitational substations throughout the city.
Don't worry, Denny and Brainiac. As I play with my new toys, I'll remember you, stuck up there in the dead higher dimensions. Empty space has properties, which we call forces. Electromagnetic, nuclear, gravity...and next in line, the Q force, also called EM...on which devices will be designed after the gravitation century. http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39214.0 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39004.2800
Now I understand why you post after dark...you're a vampire! A hundred years from now you'll still be chuckling about the good old days of crank phones and party lines..while playing with your new glow in the dark toys!
Forces (force carrying particles) arise from different quantum fields within space. They aren't necessarily properties of space itself.
Gravity is many orders of magnitude weaker than the other forces, so unless we develop the ability to move the Earth and park near a black hole that's not likely.
Is there still not the possibility of amplification. Couldn't it be possible Gravity is more easily influenced and changed than say electricity?
I feel like this thread is missing a post vaguely criticizing the scientists, regaling us with a decades old story about tangentially related work an industrial laboratory, and lobbing a few unwarranted insults towards certain other posters in this thread. What gives?
You assume it will be wireless, and that power can't be boosted. As I said, wires and transformers are the next steps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_substation
Not necessarily so, but as that phrase implies, not necessarily not so either. Each force may be our perception of a particular dimension. We may be confusedly bunching together all dimensions and calling the whole thing space. When scientists learn how to dissect space, they may find a dimension for each force.
Is that your theory or is it an existing theory based on math and modeling? I'm just curious because I have never heard this discussed before.
I always wondered if the key is in dissecting space or unlocking a sense in the brain that allows the perception..ability to visually recognize multiple dimensions ..now all we need are probes and volunteers! Just finished the article...frickin' amazing!
Note my use of the word "may." It's my opinion, based on science readings exceeding Denny's illiteracy by about 50 hours per week. By the way, the anticlimactic peer-reviewed paper finally came out days after the news. http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
