Exactly, the effect would be so small that it would be difficult to distinguish from any thermal effects produced by the heat of engine or UFO's hull. Particularly against flat background of sky, with no details. But the effect shows itself over the water and on dust particles and debris. Possibly even on grass.
Thanks for the links; I look forward to watching them. I think it was Paul Hill’s book “Unconventional Flying Objects” that got into some interesting effects of ufo’s on incidental matter near the craft. As I recall he also concluded that the propulsion system was comprised of some kind of quasi-static gravitational field mechanism.
And the most mysterious GR effect, where two UF riverine patrol boats, in Vietnam, got caught up in a fire-fight with a single UFO. UFO was capturing bullets fired from boats, curving their path 180 degrees and sending them back at the boats.
I’m not convinced that this is a gravitational effect: lead is a pretty good electrical conductor, so a high-amplitude high-frequency electromagnetic field would induce a strong repulsion effect. And then there’s the issue of shielding – an interstellar craft would have to possess some kind of field that would repel high-speed particles in space to prevent hull damage. It could be a very short-range force; the nuclear strong force has a repulsive pole at subatomic scales – perhaps they’ve learned how to use that somehow.
I am grateful for finding an informed soul. So many people try to impose their ignorance. Yeah, till one reads Carl W. Feindt's Water UFO cases one can't really express an informed opinion. I completely agree that UFO propulsion is derivative of the general relativity. Specifically, its called gravitomagnetic field and that field exists in GR. I wouldn't call it anti-gravity, because there is no such thing. It is just gravitomagnetic field, or artificial-gravity. Gravitomagnetic field is the same shape as magnetic field, that's why the name.
Thanks, yes I’m well-acquainted the principles of gravitoelectromagnetism, and I think those second-order gravitational phenomena (which most people aren’t even aware of) likely play a key role in all of this. I think that gravitomagnetism gets its name more from its inductive aspects and its gravitoelectric nature, which are analogous to magnetism, but they’re very similar in shape as well. And there are some other good sources out there – I don’t rule out anyone’s opinion just for missing out on Feindt’s intriguing collection of reports ;
And gravitoelectromagnetism describes two gravitoelectric poles, a positive and a negative, just like electric charge. If we call ordinary gravitational charges "positive," then the other one, the negative pole, would repel all ordinary matter. Colloquially, most people know this concept as "antigravity," although it is more technically accurate to call it "gravitoelectric repulsion." But let's not allow the government's massive PsyOps campaign to dissuade us from speaking plainly - we're talking about antigravity here, and it's a theoretically valid concept, regardless of what the "noisy negativists" have to say: most of them have a crappy grasp pf physics anyway.
But I should mention that gravitomagnetism alone can’t explain the levitation we observe with these craft – just like magnetism, it’s a conserved field with two polarities and no net gravitoelectric charge, so a gravitomagnetic field alone doesn’t explain the momentum changes of these craft. Sonny White, the research director at NASA’s Eagleworks program in Houston, has published a number of interesting papers that develop Alcubierre’s field propulsion concept – and that actually
does offer a plausible (albeit highly speculative) theoretical propulsion concept.
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@marduk correctly warned us, we should not be jumping into conclusions. We can't really tell which role EM fields have in creation of the artificial gravity. Maybe its just an side effect of say power generation. Or maybe its both? It requires a careful study.
We have a lot more to learn than we know, that’s for sure. But the principles of gravitoelectromagnetism do seem to be the first real light of understanding what we’re dealing with, technologically. And it's worth noting that every electromagnet creates a minuscule gravitomagnetic field, because electrons have mass, and mass moving in a circle generates a gravitomagnetic field. It's just too small to detect in the case of ordinary inductors, unless perhaps you're using an extremely high current and a core with a very high gravitomagnetic susceptibility and nonlinear permeability to amplify the field.
I didn't know that Alcubierre warp drive can produce faster-than-light speed? Do you have any reference?
Yeah it’s in his original paper, “The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity.” If you haven’t read it yet I’d think you’d enjoy it, and it’s an easy read, which is unusual for papers on general relativity:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0009013v1.pdf
I think that is what keeps me being interested in the paranormal in general, it is an absolute impossibility that all UFO/Paranormal witnesses are "Crazy" or "Liars".
In my mind it is debatable whether UFO's actually have a "physical" presence but either by accident or intentionally there seems to be a definite effect on the observers "perception", this may sound like I am belittling these events, but I actually think the opposite, because "perception" is all we have.
I believe that a paranormal event requires a Human, because that is the only constant across all cases I have heard of, but untangling what is going on is far more complicated than "chicken and egg"* scenarios.
As an afterthought the title of this thread is UFO "Design" which implies (to me at least) that they are "crafted" as opposed to "evolving", to be more clear: design implies that there was a "thought" process behind their "creation" rather than natural actors. For example: a Bird has evolved to fly, but an Aeroplane was "designed" to. What I am getting at is maybe UFOs are not "constructed" but rather "grown" or it could be a combination of both, think Horse selective breeding.
In a nutshell maybe UFOs are not designed at all, and evolved alongside, if not before us? or maybe even as "part" of us (our perception at least).
It’s become fashionable lately to question the physicality of the objects reported by eyewitnesses, which is a shame: there are all kind of cases involving radar confirmation and physical trace evidence and so forth. Some sightings may be unknown forms of energy fields and others may be psychological phenomena, but certainly not all of them. Some of them are solid, and appear to be machines. I think it’s very plausible that they could be living machines of some kind, and perhaps even be conscious in some sense – I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these things were smarter than we are; some kind of highly advanced artificial intelligence (and after all, what’s the real difference between artificial intelligence and organic intelligence anyway? It could very well be superior to the flawed and messy brand of consciousness generated by our peculiar mushy neurological soup).
I don't buy at all that the distortion effects would be low.
I mean we're talking about dozens of tons of mass energy compressed into very small volumes. Enough to keep a few dozen tons in the air that doesn't want to be there.
Dozens of tons of matter is gravitationally insignificant, even at high densities – the Earth has a mass of roughly 6x10^21 metric tons, and we can’t detect any gravitational lens effect around it, in fact we can barely detect the gravitational lens of the Sun.
Think of this way: the gravitational deflection of light is directly proportional to the magnitude of the gravitational field. So if you had craft that generated a gravitational field so strong that you could see the gravitational lens effect with the naked eye, then what would keep the craft from collapsing under that enormous gravitational field gradient (and sucking you into it in the process)? The tidal forces alone would rip any material structure to shreds.
The only way I can make sense of it is if they’ve figured out how to modify the coupling constant between mass-energy and spacetime, with respect to the second-order gravitoelectromagnetic effects that we mentioned earlier. If you could engineer a material that had an extremely high and nonlinear gravitomagnetic permeability, for example, you could generate powerful gravitomagnetic effects using a modest magnitude and density of mass-energy. It’s analogous to putting an iron core in an electromagnetic coil – using a small current you suddenly get a much more powerful field. And if that’s the case, you might be able to generate a polarized gravitational field for propulsion purposes, without having to harness the mass-energy of a neutron star to do it. Which would mean that you wouldn’t wipe out an entire planet every time one of your craft suffered a modest containment failure.