Carlos Velazquez

I've posted about this before. This, a new supposed force from large electrostatic pressure differences, was "discovered" by a NASA scientist, Dr. Charles Buehler, so he can't be easily dismissed as a crackpot. What is new in the report for me is the reference to minute unseen "ultra mundane corpuscles" as a medium proposed in the 17th century by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier.

Well. Today astrophysicists and QM physicists are saying there is no such thing as a vacuum. That empty space is really filled with an invisible quantum foam. Funny how science comes full circle sometimes. I'm not claiming we've achieved warp drives. But this obviously should be researched and verified or vilified. Well, at least disproved. I could not resist the temptation to alliterate and rhyme in the same phrase.

"Dr Charles Buhler takes people through his lab in a new video. He explains more about how they developed and detected a new force from large electrostatic pressure differences. They claim this force can test theories of physics related to gravity and a macroscale casimr effects. This is highly controversial but if this proves out then we could get the equivalent of Star Trek impulse drive and something like antigravity. Buhler thinks his new force and work would suggest that Le Sage’s theory of gravity could be more correct than Einstein. Gravity is an area of physics that is actually not conclusively understood."

"Le Sage’s theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748. The theory proposed a mechanical explanation for Newton’s gravitational force in terms of streams of tiny unseen particles (which Le Sage called ultra-mundane corpuscles) impacting all material objects from all directions. According to this model, any two material bodies partially shield each other from the impinging corpuscles, resulting in a net imbalance in the pressure exerted by the impact of corpuscles on the bodies, tending to drive the bodies together. This mechanical explanation for gravity never gained widespread acceptance."

Le Sage Theory of Gravity Aligns More With Exodus 1G Propellantless Force | NextBigFuture.com
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Tim adds:

"a NASA scientist, Dr. Charles Buehler, so he can't be easily dismissed as a crackpot."

James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt were NASA scientists too so I don't know if you can credibly make that claim, alas.

Basically quantum foam is reminiscent of the largely dismissed concept of the aether (aka the fifth element or quintessence) Which was largely dismissed after the Michaelson Morley experiment failed to prove it's existence and so Einstein just chucked it as unprovable. Maybe it is a reality but there is zero proof of it. (The Michaelson Morely experiment was an attempt to find out which way the Earth was moving relative to the aether. They took a single beam of light and split it and bounced it around via mirrors in opposite directions then merged the split beam back together, hoping to measure a difference between the two when they merged. The beam moving against the aether should have arrived slightly after the one moving with the aether. It didn't; they arrived at the exact same time. This is what inspired Einstein to come up with Relativity.)

I fear physics has grown increasingly speculative and imaginative without any real evidence. Dark Matter is another case in point.

I would agree this should be investigated. But of course this violates Newton's Third Law of Motion. If we could harness it we would essentially have a reactionless drive, which is pretty much the same thing as a perpetual motion machine - a violation of basic physics.

I strongly suspect it is an artifact of quantum indeterminacy. I think it is a measurement issue.

On the other hand physics is never "settled science" and perhaps he's right after all. I most earnestly hope so! It would be wonderful if we could really understand gravity and find ways to artificially generate it. Right now the closest we have to making gravity is by spinning an object, or accelerating it,both of which take a lot of energy and require a lot of tensile strength (for rotating an object) not to mention in the centrifugal force method (I know; centripetal acceleration is what is real and "centrifugal force" is an illusion, but it may as well be real) suffers from coriolis effects, making it impractical on a small scale (like a spaceship). Gravity which is stronger at your feet than your head isn't all that helpful.

And certainly antigravity would revolutionize our civilization. Getting off Earth easily would be a huge boon to Mankind. We could colonize the solar system. We could go to the stars with a gravity drive. it would be wonderful.

Too wonderful methinks. Like a Buzzard Ramjet or cold fusion it is just too good to be true - and so probably is.

So I'm not holding my breath.

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