A Secret Project to Counter the Force of Gravity | Space’s Deepest Secrets | Science Channel

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Published 2024-06-05
The story of how a large aerospace company, BAE Systems, began a secret project to counter the force of gravity while NASA simultaneously ran a similar 'Breakthrough Propulsion Physics' program. #ScienceChannel #SpacesDeepestSecrets

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All Comments (21)
  • @SammerAsby
    Someday in the near future, we will be able to travel faster than light.... "Imagination is more important than knowledge!". Albert Einstein
  • @daveoatway6126
    Electricity and magnetism were magic 200 years ago. We just don't understand gravity, and never will if we only study it with the same theories that work with electricity and magnetism.
  • @OresteParlatano
    Why you are insisting in considering gravity as a force? According to Einstein gravity is a geometry.
  • A clue: Gravity is not a force, but the curvature of Space-Time. Start there.
  • @mpbasics8285
    i dreamt over and over about this....i really thought this just need a little insight
  • Yeah, the research hits a dead end so everyone starts to work on other things. How mysterious.
  • @TeferaDadi
    The magnet can act like magnet by only spinning.therefore, spinning of matter can create Magnetic field and that's why you couldn't see the upward motion of spinning magnet.the levitating magnet can go upwards if and only if the base on which magnet is spinning can also spins with magnet with the same direction. To see the effect,just accelerate the base while the magnet is spinning.
  • @sidharthghoshal
    This upward lift is not even a lift. The core point here is conservation of angular momentum. When the Gyro is not moving you have to use a lot of force to generate torque to keep it from tilting and lift it. Once its spinning conservation of angular momentum prevents it from tilting so you now ONLY produce the force needed to lift the thing. That reduction is what makes it feel easier.
  • @antigrav1302
    Just do a You Tube search and study the lecture presentations of late aerospace engineer Harvey Fiala. He proved through experimentation that a gyroscope can be used to generate thrust. His concept has little to do with how Laithwaite claimed weightlessness. The real clue on how to engineer thrust out of these gyros that Laithwaite did show can be seen in his Christmas lecture that demonstrates how momentum is not transferred as typically expected, if an offset gyro's precession is impeded. The atypical momentum transfer allows for the engineering of rectifying inertial impulses.
  • @chem7553
    Interesting topic sort of. That said: there are definitely cases in which electric charge can be additive.
  • If one were to build a rigid cubic structure holding arrays of gyroscopes in cells this would operate like a single gyroscope. The gyros would possibly synchronize as a single field. If you made it such that you could turn a set of cells in one direction or another it (think of the Rubicks Cube) would break the symmetry of the cube. Might have interesting effects.
  • @SJR_Media_Group
    Former Boeing... Gravity is one of Four Fundamental Forces... gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces — that are responsible for shaping the universe we inhabit. Gravity is a force which tries to pull two objects toward each other. Anything which has mass also has a gravitational pull. The more massive an object is, the stronger its gravitational pull is. Earth's gravity is what keeps you on the ground and what causes objects to fall. Near Earth's surface, the acceleration due to gravity, accurate to 2 significant figures, is 9.8 m/s2 (32 ft/s2). This means that, ignoring the effects of air resistance, the speed of an object falling freely will increase by about 9.8 Meters per second (32 ft/s) every second. Good luck overcoming Earth's hold on everything on it's surface, even the Moon can not overcome Earth's pull. The gravity of The Sun at its surface is 27.9 times that of Earth. Therefore a person's weight (if they could stand on the Sun) would be 27.9 times that on Earth. To overcome Gravity, you would have to have ZERO Mass... good luck with that. Only Photons have Zero Mass... that is why they can travel at the Speed of Light...
  • @cattigereyes1
    Electromagnetic fields need more study. Mercury spun with electricity create fields. Electric fields can be changed. Electromagnetic waves need study, just like many forbidden phenomena.
  • Human flight was seen as impossible at one point ... then it wasn't.
  • @wordbird711
    The universe is fundamentally electric and so is gravity.
  • @jaybenjamin4563
    Well is it possible to take the same event that occurs between magnets pushing apart and harness it to make things that fly without the need for fuel? An idea I wondered since I was a kid. We’ve seen how fast magnets can come together or push apart. Seems like that could be made to make things that fly.
  • @johnconnor6725
    Dark Energy push's Mass apart so we need to understand the frequency of it.