(06-12-2023, 10:21 AM)A51Watcher2 Wrote: Ya know @Ninurta, your suggestion of examining the process has been working around in the back of my head ever since you mentioned it.
As per usual my brain works on problems in my sleep and last night I woke up with a solution.
While it's true that the process gives us no measurable numbers to work with as far as whether we are seeing magnetism or gravity (or a combination of both), it DOES give a measurable process for other things.
AS I mentioned, Deuem ran some early test runs on photos of high voltage sodium parking lot lamps and power station transformers.
The lamps had fewer rings around the center and the lines were fatter. The high voltage transformers had more rings and the lines were thinner.
So we could get photos of objects with known voltages and compare the number of rings as the voltage gets higher, does it do so exponentially or a linear fashion?
This also give us an estimation of the voltage on the outside of the craft.
Thanks again for the great question!
Not necessarily voltage. Voltage, electricity, has it's niche at the atomic level, due to the exchange of electrons between atoms as the current (amperage) flows. But, at the subatomic level, other energies come into play. You start getting into the weak force, the strong force, and gravitational forces at that level - among God only knows what other undiscovered as yet forces may be at play - and there is no telling what sort of signature such forces may show at the macro level as they aggregate.
Limiting the search to voltage may handicap the search.
There are also other forces to consider - attractive forces, ex: gravity, or repulsive forces ex: centripetal forces. Properly focused, both attractive and repulsive forces would affect propulsion. For example, an attractive force generated on one side of an object coupled with a repulsive force on the other would tend to increase the acceleration in the direction of the attractive force and away from the direction of the repulsive force.
ETA: Thee is also the consideration that some other force would need to be generated within a finite field to counteract gravitational forces in great accelerations away from the gravitational source, in order to avoid turning any potential occupants into a strawberry-colored stain on the inner walls of the object. An acceleration in excess of gravitational acceleration, and opposite it, would tend to mush up biological systems within the object without some counteracting force - but that force would have to be contained in a finite field or "bubble" in order to avoid interfering with the propulsive forces.
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