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Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation - New antigravity solution will enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century, he predicts.

Noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber will present his new exact solution of Einstein's 90-year-old gravitational field equation to the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque. The solution is the first that accounts for masses moving near the speed of light.

Felber's antigravity discovery solves the two greatest engineering challenges to space travel near the speed of light: identifying an energy source capable of producing the acceleration and limiting stresses on humans and equipment during rapid acceleration.

                    Maybe we can get somewhere after all.

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Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation

New antigravity solution will enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century, he predicts.
On Tuesday, Feb. 14, noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber will present his new exact solution of Einstein's 90-year-old gravitational field equation to the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque. The solution is the first that accounts for masses moving near the speed of light.

Felber's antigravity discovery solves the two greatest engineering challenges to space travel near the speed of light: identifying an energy source capable of producing the acceleration and limiting stresses on humans and equipment during rapid acceleration.

"Dr. Felber's research will revolutionize space flight mechanics by offering an entirely new way to send spacecraft into flight," said Dr. Eric Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin and STAIF peer reviewer of Felber's work. "His rigorously tested and truly unique thinking has taken us a huge step forward in making near-speed-of-light space travel safe, possible, and much less costly."

The field equation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has never before been solved to calculate the gravitational field of a mass moving close to the speed of light. Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it. The closer a mass gets to the speed of light, the stronger its 'antigravity beam' becomes.

Felber's calculations show how to use the repulsion of a body speeding through space to provide the enormous energy needed to accelerate massive payloads quickly with negligible stress. The new solution of Einstein's field equation shows that the payload would 'fall weightlessly' in an antigravity beam even as it was accelerated close to the speed of light.

Accelerating a 1-ton payload to 90 percent of the speed of light requires an energy of at least 30 billion tons of TNT. In the 'antigravity beam' of a speeding star, a payload would draw its energy from the antigravity force of the much more massive star. In effect, the payload would be hitching a ride on a star.

"Based on this research, I expect a mission to accelerate a massive payload to a 'good fraction of light speed' will be launched before the end of this century," said Dr. Felber. "These antigravity solutions of Einstein's theory can change our view of our ability to travel to the far reaches of our universe."

More immediately, Felber's new solution can be used to test Einstein's theory of gravity at low cost in a storage-ring laboratory facility by detecting antigravity in the unexplored regime of near-speed-of-light velocities.

During his 30-year career, Dr. Felber has led physics research and development programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Department of Energy and Department of Transportation, the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and national laboratories. Dr. Felber is Vice President and Co-founder of Starmark.   Link

Comments

[Will]

This is good shit Steel! This is why I am a chem major! Science is the future of our species. the scientific mind and the opposable thumb are the only reason I am able to tyoe this comment right now. the booze is hindering, but nevertheless another example of a great invention...

[Mouse]

Wow! It'll be kind of like shooting pool with magnetic distraction. Space balls anyone? Let's see. If I can hang on that long (end of century) I'd like to take that ride. Don't know where the heck we'd go, but maybe, if we can drive faster than the speed of light, I could come back in a younger body too!

[Phoenix]

What if you could do that and come back as a fifteen-year-old. You could change all kinds of things - provided you knew what your 'past' entailed. But then, as it's all a chain of related events, where would know to make the first change?

I think I wouldn't have let my mother talk me into going to a southern private girls' college.

Trouble is, it is one thing looking back on our pasts and another thing taking a chance that a random change in choice would produce a better life/future. What a conundrum. Talk about playing the odds. I'll settle for coming back a 23 year old with the knowledge I have now.