At present, scientists study gravitational fields passively. They observe and try to understand existing gravitational fields produced by large inertial masses such as stars or planets, without being able to change them, as with magnetic fields. It was this frustration that led Füzfa to attempt a revolutionary approach: creating gravitational fields at will from well-controlled magnetic fields and observing how these magnetic fields could bend space-time.
In his article, Füzfa has proposed, with supporting mathematical proof, a device with which to create detectable gravitational fields. This theoretical device is based on superconducting electromagnets and therefore relies on technologies routinely used, for example, at CERN or the ITER reactor.
https://phys.org/news/2016-01-paper-method-gravitational-fields.amp.
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Listen to the story told by André Fuzfa, the physicist with the radical.
plan to manipulate gravity which could one day result in astronauts.
walking, like captain Kirk or Han Solo, rather than floating around in.
their spaceships.
With a PhD in Theoretical Physics in the field of Cosmology in his pocket.
André Fuzfa is a professor at the University of Namur, and is well on his.
way to turn science fiction into reality.
Working within the field of the physical nature of dark energy and.
extensions of Einstein’s general relativity, Prof. Fuzfa has made a bold.
but grounded claim that mankind has the ability to create and control.
artificial gravitational fields with technology currently available. By.
doing this, he has thrown out a snowball, which might very soon turn into.
an avalanche of futuristic applications.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but.
independently organized by a local community.
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