I'll try to post major sci news items here and anyone else is welcome to post items too and to comment if you like. But let's keep comments brief here please.
This is reported by Greg Volk at the CNPS site. He says this is a novel superconducting levitation thruster technology and tests showed that the earlier version "can deliver 1000 times more thrust per unit mass than the Xenon ion propulsion engine that NASA has used to propel its Dawn spacecraft beyond Mars to Ceres". "[T]his novel device is able to accomplish its propulsion with absolutely no physical energy input. It just needs to be cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures or below". The new version "is essentially a conically shaped superconducting coil and ... calculations indicate that it should develop over 30,000 times more thrust than [the] first version. Hence it should be able to lift heavy payloads off the ground." "[I]t should be capable of delivering 9 times more thrust, per unit thruster weight, than the Space Shuttle main engine". Also it should "be able to self-levitate off the ground" like the "hoverboard in the movie Back to the Future". So it should also be good for maglev here on Earth. The inventor is raising $32k online to do testing on the new version. See https://igg.me/at/levitation-thruster.
Here's more on the previous story from https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/supe ... -thruster#.
- Manned space ships that could attain near light speed velocities and travel to the nearest star system (e.g., Proxima Centauri) in 4.5 years, instead of 20,000 years.
- Historically, social advances have been brought about by technologies that either improved transportation (moved people or goods more efficiently from one place to another) or improved on energy production. This technology should do both. If it works as expected, it would bring untold prosperity to the world.
- The videos may not seem impressive, showing only a very small thruster causing a slight movement of a pendulum, but it should be scalable to much larger sizes.
- Actually, travel to the nearest star would likely be much faster than 4.5 years, since the distances to most stars are apparently much closer than generally supposed. See http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15374&start=225#p110714 for some details, such as 2 stars being less than 1/10th ly away and 7 more being less than 1 ly away.
Early water had very little deuterium, which strongly suggests that it was not carried to Earth after it had formed and cooled.
The red arc is free of gas, suggesting the carbon monoxide has frozen out, forming a layer of frost on the dust grains in that region. The frost may provide a boost to planet formation.
Two links for the sci news stories I posted yesterday above don't work, so I'm providing better links for them here. I also added the Snopes article.
--- Everyone's welcome to post any other major science news here that I overlooked.
Women or Men: Which are Better Leaders?
I forgot to post the views count again, till now anyway.
How the moon got its mysterious "tattoos"
What Fills the Vast Space Between Planets?
How to Form Io's Mountains? Just Squeeze!
References are listed at the end.
These findings seem to be serious advances.
These HIV cures probably are expensive and have serious side effects, whereas the cheap cure discovered years earlier, sodium chlorite mixed with acidic drinks yielding ClO2, i.e. chlorine dioxide, is very safe and effective. The malaria vaccine, like other vaccines, is probably contaminated with poisonous chemicals and is probably not safe or effective. See Search box at http://mercola.com .
The genome maps should be of value, but are likely to be misused by the medical drug industry. The bacterial genome may similarly be misused, including for dangerous GM organisms. See Search box at http://mercola.com .
This seems to be a real advance.
Though they don't admit it, this finding undermines conventional dating, so dinosaurs likely existed only thousands of years ago, not millions of years ago, as found with C14 dating. See http://newgeology.us/presentation48.html .
I don't know what the Poincaré Conjecture is, but the rest of these findings seem to be real advances.
The climate was initially warm, then it got cold after the rapid continental drift event a few thousand years ago as explained at http://NewGeology.us , and since then it's been warming up gradually, so naturally glaciers will melt. The supposed 800,000-year high Greenhouse Gas Levels finding is surely false, based on false assumptions. They were probably higher a thousand years ago when the climate was warmer than now. Increasing temperatures cause CO2 and methane to be released into the air, causing higher concentrations.
Humans need to start colonizing space asap and any water on Mars would be helpful for that. It's possible that the water came from a Saturn nova flare a few thousand years ago, or from icy moons or asteroids that collided with Mars within that time.
Planet X, a large planet, or small star, on a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun, is probably hype. The minor planets may be helpful for space travel to nearby stars, although there are engine designs that may make it possible to travel at nearly light speed, so journeys to nearby stars may not require long time periods, maybe just a few years. Many stars may be much closer than conventionally measured.
I'll have to check one of these days to see how close the nearest exoplanet may be, because that's where the first space exomission should aim for.
Measuring the universe is conventionally done with the redshift of light spectra, but it's based on the assumption that the object with the redshift is receding at a velocity and distance directly related to the redshift. However, it's likely that the objects with redshifts have bipolar jets and its the electrons in the near-side jets which are receding with redshift velocities. One high redshift object is visible in front of a low-redshift galaxy, therefore redshift doesn't measure the distance to the object, nor the velocity of the object, but only the velocity of the electrons in the near-side jets.
- Black holes and gravitons do not exist in the ways conventionally theorized, so measuring the universe with black holes is doubtful, especially since it likely accepts conventional redshift assumptions.
- Dark matter and dark energy don't exist, but they're assumed to account for the anomalous velocities of stars in the outer portions of galactic disks. However, the electrical force in Debye cells, i.e. ionized plasma cells in space, and the electric charge on stars already accounts for the anomalous velocities. See Charles Chandler's papers at qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=12692 .
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1802 – Teleological evolution >> If life has only existed a few thousand years, then evolution would have to occur rapidly, if at all, which is possible.
1805 – Atomic Theory >> Yes, I guess this means the periodic table of elements.
1820 – Electromagnetism >> Yes, Forces were measured, but the process isn't yet well understood.
1830 - Non-Euclidean geometry >> No, It's imaginary, not real.
1838 – Stellar parallax >> No, only planets are close enough to be measured by parallax.
1848 – absolute zero temperature >> yes, approx.
1859 – Theory of evolution >> See 1802.
1861 - Germ theory >> No, diseases are only partially caused by "germs", but mostly by poor nutrition and lifestyle. See Search box at http://mercola.com.
1871 – Diffuse sky radiation (Rayleigh scattering) >> No, see http://MilesMathis.com.
1876 – Chemical thermodynamics phase rule >> Yes, I think that means solid, liquid, gas.
1877 – Statistical entropy >> Yes, or does that mean statistics lose energy?
1887 – Aether disproof >> No, the MM experiment only disproved local aether wind, probably.
1897 – Electron >> Yes, but they don't orbit; instead atoms rotate. See 1871.
1898 – Plum pudding model of atoms >> No, see 1897.
1907 – Arsphenamine, first modern medicine >> No, any drug that has side effects is poisonous and not healthful. See 1861.
1912 – Continental drift >> Yes, but it occurred rapidly, not gradually. See http://NewGeology.us.
1913 – Model of atom >> No, see 1871.
1915 – Theory of general relativity >> No, doubtful, see 1871.
1915 – Schwarzschild radius >> No, see 1871.
1920 – Theory of stellar nuclear power >> No, not from the Sun's core, but from the boundary between the positive top electrical double-layer and the next deeper negative double-layer. See http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5237 .
1922 – Insulin for diabetes >> Yes, but diabetes is caused mainly by excess fructose, mostly from table sugar, so reducing fructose or sucrose intake usually prevents it. See 1861.
1925 – Schrödinger equation (Quantum mechanics) >> No, see 1871.
1927 – Uncertainty principle (Quantum mechanics) >> No, see 1871.
1927 – Theory of Big Bang >> No, redshift is caused by velocity of bipolar jets, not velocity or distance of objects.
1928 – Dirac equation (Quantum mechanics) >> No, see 1871.
1929 – Expanding universe >> No, see 1927.
1928 – Penicillin, first antibiotic >> Yes, but antibiotics destroy good gut bacteria, causing Leaky Gut and Allergies, etc. Probiotics should always accompany antibiotics, or alternatives to antibiotics should be used. See 1861.
1929 – Potential fourth law of thermodynamics >> I don't know.
1934 – Calorie restriction for maximum lifespan >> Yes, see 1861.
1943 – DNA as genetic material >> Maybe, but so far all DNA is known to do is code for protein synthesis within cells.
1945 - Mass production of penicillin >> Yes, but the cost/benefit ratio needs to be determined.
1948 – Mathematical Information theory >> I don't know.
1948 – Quantum electrodynamics >> No, see 1871.
1951 – First cancer cell line, HeLa >> Yes, but it's useless. See 1861.
1952 – Polio vaccine >> It has done much more harm than good. See 1861.
1963 – Paleomagnetic stripes in ocean crust >> Yes, but they formed rapidly, not gradually. See 1912a.
1964 – Theory of subatomic quarks >> No, there are no quarks. See 1871.
1964 – CMBR: Universal cosmic microwave background radiation >> No, it's not cosmic background radiation; it's locally produced radiation within the galaxy or the solar system. See 1871.
1967 – Pulsar: rapidly pulsing star >> Yes, but they're not neutron stars; they're exotics. See http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=5738 .
1997 – Top quark >> No, see 1871.
1998 – Dark Energy & High-Z Supernova: accelerated expansion of Universe >> No, see http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=9273 .
2000 – Tau neutrino >> No, see 1871.
Stars with planets on strange orbits: what's going on?