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==Mechanism==
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At the heart of the gravity drive are two basic principals;
At the heart of the gravity drive are two simple principals;


# Creating a co-proximal spacetime curvature anomaly, with the '''lowest''' vacuum pressure density located on one side of an object, creates a condition where gravity associated with lowered vacuum pressure density creates an attractive force in modified spacetime.
# Creating a co-proximal spacetime curvature anomaly, with the '''lowest''' vacuum pressure density located on one side of an object, creates a condition where gravity associated with lowered vacuum pressure density creates an attractive force in modified spacetime.
 
# Creating a co-proximal spacetime curvature anomaly with the '''highest''' vacuum pressure density located on the opposite side of the same object, creates a condition where a repulsion force associated with elevated vacuum pressure density exists in modified spacetime.
# Creating a co-proximal spacetime curvature anomaly with the point of '''highest''' vacuum pressure density located on the opposite side of the same object, creates a condition where a repulsion force associated with elevated vacuum pressure density exists in modified spacetime.


For obvious reasons this is called the [[Volfson]] force.
For obvious reasons this is called the [[Volfson]] force.

Revision as of 16:56, 25 September 2010

The invention of the gravity drive was a turning point in the history of humankind. Before the development of the Katabatic Process, by IRAKi researchers under the permanently absent/stoned supervision of Milus Blondel[1], humans, and the tiny planet they were stuck on were locked into a technological dead-end (see Rocket Science). Space travel was limited to mainly un-manned vehicles which were tediously slow, fragile assemblages of tinfoil and recycled aluminium, pottering about in the local system on one-way journeys. This was about as useful as crawling around in a swamp in the dark with one hand tied behind your back while being given navigational instructions by a blindfolded committee. Without gravity propulsion humankind was doomed.

Discovery

Like almost all IRAKi technology, the initial research was based on a phenomena that had been taken for granted for so long that no-one had ever thought to investigate it further. Everyone knew that children who don't want to be picked up are able to make themselves heavier - two year-olds doubly so - but until the over-confident bunch of rejects and reprobates who formed the core 'scientists' for IRAK were given the task of explaining the screamingly obvious, no-one had any idea why it happened. It's important to understand that the 'invention' of Matter transmission had made everyone at IRAK so insufferably cock-sure of themselves[2] that they thought they were capable of cracking the biggest long-term problem there was. While we can all be glad that they did crack it, we really would have preferred it if someone less annoying had got there first.

A key moment was when they (probably accidentally) discovered the LaGrange Rejection Phenomena, a sub-atomic modification of spacetime that could be initiated and controlled by managing the boson spin synchronisation within atoms using that same technology that the EMTI uses, ie Randomly Synchronised Spin[3]. As Milus Blondel was often fond of saying; it's all in the spin.

Mechanism

At the heart of the gravity drive are two simple principals;

  1. Creating a co-proximal spacetime curvature anomaly, with the lowest vacuum pressure density located on one side of an object, creates a condition where gravity associated with lowered vacuum pressure density creates an attractive force in modified spacetime.
  2. Creating a co-proximal spacetime curvature anomaly with the highest vacuum pressure density located on the opposite side of the same object, creates a condition where a repulsion force associated with elevated vacuum pressure density exists in modified spacetime.

For obvious reasons this is called the Volfson force.

This process requires an eye-wateringly large amount of energy but fortunately[4] the principle of Decoupled momentum had recently been discovered and high-power 'Noles'® could be integrated at molecular level delivering virtually unlimited power.

The other reactant required to make gravity drives effective is, of course, mass. The greater the mass, the stronger the repulsive and attractive forces. Something planet-sized is a decent starting point, but there's nothing like a good-sized sun to really get things moving. It is important, however, to fail to collide with the attractant masses so all gravity drives are capable of switching from high to low vacuum pressure density for manoeuvring purposes.


Footnotes and references

  1. which didn't prevent him from claiming the credit
  2. and smugly rich
  3. however, in the case of gravity manipulation, there is nothing random about it
  4. again, the luck of these people was unbelievable