Comment Conservative and dated solutions? (Score 1) 95
With all the current debate in the soundness of our current physics model, I can't understand the continued funding, implementation, and developement of such antiquated devices as are currently used in the spacefaring arena.
To put this in perspective, our current model of physics insists that anti-gravity is an "impossibility" due to the accepted fact that the electric and gravity forces are unable to interact. Yet a recent article on MSNBC indicates that researchers are now discovering that certain particles (muons) do not react as is predicted by current physics. The article even goes so far as to say that these new discoveries could lead to the obsolesence of the current physics model. Imagine that. What happened to the Newtonian model may happen to the Einsteinian model!
One profound point made within the article is that only three of the four known forces are considered within todays accepted physics model. Currently, gravity is not covered within dynamic force interaction principals.
Further, an article publishing a documented case of an anti-gravity device came to my attention a few months ago. In the article was proof that anti-gravity is a reality though the device in question created a field of negligible power( measured at somewhere around 0.09% decrease), the field measured to be uniform directly above the device through the several upper floors of the building.
In all fairness, I must say that none of the recent discoveries are "here and now", nor directly affect current spacefaring as the original story topic may, but the spaceprogram we have is certainly doing fine with what it has already, so I say lets look to what comes next in technology rather than refine the technologies currently in use.
In conclusion, all of these new developments lead to many thoughts of what the future has in store for us. Whether science fiction or science fact, if we don't take the chance and try as the true space pioneers did, we may never know. I say, lets take the chance of embraceing our future and the new discoveries inherent therein.
[Sorry I don't know the links to the documents in question, but the one on MSNBC shouldn't be that hard to find. The one about the anti-gravity device may prove to be a little more difficult to find. I believe I got the link in the Langa List, but could be mistaken. It may even be one of the links on this page
