h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Gravity the unknown force


If you cannot see it is it there? If it were not for magnetism science would be hard pressed to understand natural forces that do spectacular things, but are little understood. What is the major difference between the week force and the strong force? Is this terminology just scientific gobble de gook? Have you ever wondered why a magnet picks up iron but not paper? Or have you ever wondered why there is no north and south to static electricity yet it will repel under certain conditions?

Just think of it; science has known for nearly one hundred years, that there are conditions under which static will repel itself, but they have not yet been able to see how this ties in with overcoming the power of gravity. The reason does appear to be that the logic of the scientist has been put into a straitjacket. What is it that is holding science spellbound all these years? It appears to be what they see as the magnitude of the situation. For example, for two spheres to repel they need to be of the same mass and the same potential.
Trying to create the same potential as the earth is quite a problem for science as they see it. Is there a way round the problem? The efforts so far to circumvent the problem have not met with any success. It does seem though that millions of pounds are being used on creating a steamroller to crack a nut. A great deal of effort is still put in, to create larger, and larger voltages on spheres, which is known to be doomed to failure, because of the natural limits on capacitance. Then they do not admit to what the real agenda is, as most of the work carried out is considered to be for the testing of insulators, or is funded under some other guise.

So how do we trick the planet into feeling that the force that it is encountering is equal to its own?

And how do we stop the force from grounding itself while it is being charged up?

Now these are not big problems, but so far science has not been able to resolve them, even though the nutcracker is easier to make, than the steamroller.