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> The concept is fairly simple, although the engineering required to make it a reality is anything but. All matter contains energy on the quantum level. By theo
by georgeburdell 7y ago
> The concept is fairly simple, although the engineering required to make it a reality is anything but. All matter contains energy on the quantum level. By theoretically creating its own incredibly dense and polarized energy field, the hybrid craft is claimed to be able to create a quantum 'vacuum' around itself which allows it to repel any air or water molecules with which it interacts.
As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything.
> Little information can be found about Salvatore Cezar Pais; he has virtually no web presence. What is known is that he received a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1999 and that he currently works as an aerospace engineer for NAWCAD at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland – the Navy’s top aircraft test base. Pais has published several articles and presented papers at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conferences over the years describing his work in electromagnetic propulsion, revolutionary room temperature superconductors, and topics like his PhD dissertation: "Bubble generation under reduced gravity conditions for both co-flow and cross-flow configurations."
My sample size is small at ~5, but former classmates who joined the military research labs were not the brightest bunch. Of my overall cohort, the smartest ones went into industry, sometimes a different industry than their field of study. The smart but idealistic ones went into academia. And then the ones that truly never shed their sophomoric arrogance, acquired in their formative years and that should have been beaten out of them by the doctoral process, went to the military labs to work on secret stuff.
It may have been true in the past, but military labs don't have the cachet to attract top talent.
With that being said, the most likely reason for this patent filing, as others have noted, is misdirection.
- keldaris 7y ago> As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything. That part is just a terrible attempt by the journalist to summarize the theoretical background of the patent's (rather ludicrous) claims in a popular form. The polarization they're talking about is just the vacuum polarization in the standard QED sense. The funny stuff starts when the patent assumes that you can automagically generate fields close to or over the Schwinger limit. As a fellow physics PhD, I recommend reading the actual patent for comic relief [1]. It has no other use as far as I can tell. [1] https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/de/4c/43/62c585ccc936cc/US10144532.pdf https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/de/4c/43/62c585c...
- jrs235 7y agoThis whole story is complete nonsense. First off, if the US military was in possession of such technology they would NEVER submit a patent for it. Why would they publish the technology to enable others (foreign governments and entities) to easily copy it? The US Government doesn't need to protect themselves from not being able to use the technology if it was real anyways. The federal government of the United States has the "right to use patented inventions without permission"[1]. So yeah, perhaps someone working for the Navy wants to try to patent it so they can make some money from the technology. Well, it is very likely such technology would be top secret classified and any individuals working on it would find themselves in deep trouble for publishing anything, including patents, related to their work. If this story is true, at least the part about some patent trying to explain the UFO's that have been in the news more of late then it is likely a psyops piece/work and/or is a means to try to quell concerns that there are in fact extraterrestrials visiting earth or things the U.S. government (and others) can't explain. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_patent_use_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_patent_use_(United_...
- i_am_nomad 7y ago> As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything. Not true, they did exactly that on several episodes of “Star Trek: Voyager.” /s
- mysterydip 7y agoI know people who work there, and it seems to have a similar bell curve of talent you see in any corporation (though given what kind of person is attracted to government work, maybe shifted more towards the bottom). They also say "top aircraft test base" but it's also practically the only after the BRACs of the 90s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure
- gingabriska 7y ago>My sample size is small at ~5, but former classmates who joined the military research labs were not the brightest bunch. Of my overall cohort, the smartest ones went into industry, sometimes a different industry than their field of study. The smart but idealistic ones went into academia. I hate to point this out but "smartest" doesn't have monopoly over inventions or discoveries.
- ryanthedev 7y ago>As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything Well considering light is energy and you can polarize that. The inventor is saying you can create gravitational waves through with just EM. Now you need to combine sound and angular momentum. Add a shit load of volts. Like Tesla on crack. And create high frequency standing wave in a resonance chamber. Boom you have the equivalent to a laser. But using all of physics in a perfect storm of power.
- ryanthedev 7y agoYou essentially combine multiple fields. Creating a quantum entanglement between each force. This will create a small field of negative energy. Think opposite of black hole.