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Antimatter IS "useful." Ask anyone who'se had a disease diagnosed with a PET scan.

No "particular" size or shape, at that level you have clouds of probability, depending on how they're packed, their energy levels, that sort of thing. One thing they are NOT are tiny little balls, as usually illustrated.

The type 3 multiverse is suggested to be in the quantum domain and is responsible for some of the weirder two-slit experimnet results. Those where a single particle at a time are sent through two slits and we STILL see interference patterns. It is suggested that similar particles in other...

A "Simple" Relativity Question... I was asked this question on another forum, and it seems easy at first glance but may be more subtle: What would an observer on a very massive star (yeah, a well insulated observer) see about a small body falling in toward the star, from very far away? Would...

Good overview of quantum theory: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics You can/will spend hours going through the links there and their links -- quantum theory covers a LOT of ground! Just remember, if it seems simple you didn't get it! From the same source, about time...

Um, sure, and the high voltage source has one terminal grounded as well. If you place the top wire too close to the skirt you get intense sparking -- so there is an intense attractive force between ions charged by the top wire and the nearby grounded, oppositely charged (whatever) skirt.

Basically, a breeze of ionized air being repelled, or attracted to, a charge. Classic example is a thumbtack on top of a Van der Graaf generator terminal -- a breeze will be felt coming from the tip of the tack because of the intense ionization at the tip and its subsequent repulsion from the...

The intense electric field surrounding the upper small diameter wire electrode does ionize a fair amount of air, and that is directed mostly downward from the oppositely charged "skirt" electrode located below the wire. As to whether the lifters really do lift, yes, they do. Like I said, its...

Yes, they do create an ion wind, but it seems to be too weak to fully account for the lift. Hence the "alternate" theories.

How they work depends on your belief system. For those determined to find "the answer," they work by somehow bending spacetime and counteracting gravity. For the rest of us it seems that ions are involved. A recent test showed a lifter did not work in a hard vacuum, but this did not dissuade...