Antigravity by H G Wells and "Dr Cavor"
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10.5.2000 |
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Clovis de Matos |
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Antigravity by H G Wells and "Dr Cavor" |
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Wells, H. G. , "The First Men In the Moon", http://www.literature.org/authors/wells-herbert-george/ , , ( ) Page Nr. . |
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In this novel H. G. Wells narrate the discovery by Dr Cavor of a new material call the Cavorite. This material had the spectacular property to screen the gravitational field produced by the Earth and other Celestial Bodies. |
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Dr. Cavor manufactured a spacecraft using its Cavorite material to go to the moon. This spacecraft is a sphere made out of Cavorite pannels that you can "open" or "close", allowing gravity to act on certain parts of the spacecraft or avoiding its action, thus creating a total gravitational pull on the whole spacecraft. Using this Spacecraft Dr Cavor leaves with a friend to the moon, by simply screening the gravitational attraction of the Sun and Earth on the spacecraft and allowing the moon to attract the spacecraft with its gravitational field. |
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At the present time there is no known material with the property to screen a gravitational field. However some recent research in the area of superconductivity, nanomaterials and quantum state of vacuum might bring us more informations about the interaction between the gravitational field and special states of matter at a quantum level (e.g., coherent macroscopic quantum states of matter like superconductivity). one might also think about the future possibility to manufacture new synthetic materials which structure will be designed at the nanoscale providing a way to control the quantum state of the vacuum and allowing stable states of negative energy which would be usefull for the control of local gravitational fields. |
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| Feasibility |
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Requires New Technology |
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| Keywords |
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antigravity , cavorite , superconductivity , velocity of propagation of the gravitational field in material media , gravitational properties of matter at quantum scale , new synthetic materials , quantum vacuum , negative mass , nanostructures |
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