a guy I know who is working for boeing, and he has told me alot of interesting things about what they are doing to move us forward in space travel. He said that they are working on a device that reduces the actual weight of objects by produceing a unusual magnetic field . he said that by useing special superconductive matierials in a magnetic field generator they can use this to travel at the speed of light. he said that the closer you get to reduceing a objects mass or gravity the more energy is needed to be pushed throught the machine. a relitivaly small amount can reduce the wieght by 5% in order to reduce it by 100% you need the energy produced by an atomic bomb. I then said well that sounds imposible , he then told me that it actually isnt that alll you have to do is produce the energy for a tiny fraction of time and that they have done it. its kind of like e.m.p. , the idea is to make a ship with this tech and once you produce the field it will put the object at the speed oflight
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
Interesting. I thought Boeing abandoned it already?
Was Dr. Eugene Podkletnov or Dr Ning Li involved?
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
WOW I would like to read more about this. Would you mind providing a link to the web site so I can read the white papers on Boeing’s Teams work? It doesn’t seem to be at their front page or visibly easy to find.
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
He was just joking…
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
What will they think of next!?
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
Boeing has other things to worry about, like working on a new airplane design to compete with the Airbus A380. Your friend is just joking around.
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
Sounds cool, but I am skeptical…
When matter approaches the speed of light, it actually starts to emit electromagnetic radiation. Perhaps inanimate objects can handle this conversion just fine, but humans? Hmm…
However, magnets are magical things.
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
AWESOME!!! I can’t wait to hear more about this. I have read recently about the use of magnetic fields and electro magnetic ways in current development.
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
So what is your question? Does this sound feasible?
I’ve heard a lot about magnetic fields, but nothing in terms of reducing an object’s MASS. Mass is a property of an object and a measure of its inertia, and shouldn’t be dependent upon any kind of magnetic, electric, or even gravitational, field.
Even if hypothetically (which is being very generous), the weight of the object could be reduced, it certainly couldn’t reduce the mass, which is ultimately going to lead to your undoing as you try to accelerate it close to the speed of light. It’s about energy conservation, and this proposal seems to in some way violate that law.
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
Either there is some major ish going on that we don’t know about or your friend was smoking some of the finest green when he dreamt this up. We haven’t even gone the speed of bullets yet and all of a sudden we’re going at light speeds? It sounds like one of those things we’ll have to see to believe. But if true then more power to them! I’m sure we would all like to be able to go to another planet someday.
31. August 2010 at 6:18 am
there still a number of problem,s…..just to start….a magnetic field as strong as an electromagnetic pulse…has a tendency to negate or disrupt normal electronic circuity …..making this difficult to control…..to achieve light speed….it is thought that only energy can withstand this….then there is the problem of thing,s getting in your way….at light speed…your ability to detect object,s in your path is nearly impossible….you won,t be able to see them until it,s too late….to detect them….let,s say with radar….you would need to project the radar energy to faster than that speed….so it could return to be detected…& then time for you to react…even though time is said to be suspended at light speed….theese are only a few of the problem,s you would encounter.