Is Research on Gravity Lifts a Step Towards Defying Gravity?

[Pythagorean]

Is there any research being done towards the concept of a gravity lift?

Is this purely a sci-fi idea or is there merit to it?

I haven't the slightest idea how gravity works or what the source of the force is, but I'd like to learn more.

 

[salsero]

What is "gravity lift"?

 

[Pythagorean]

I don't know how it's supposed to work or if any authors ever bothered to explain it, but it's basically a means to lift off Earth without using jet propulsion. You step into a field that somehow nulls or directs the affect (strength?) of gravity and you drift up, towards the sky.

Again, I have no idea how gravity works, it's something I hope to learn about and research eventually. I would, from this perspective, assume it is one of the lesser understood phenomena.

 

[russ_watters]

Anti-gravity. No, its just science fiction at this point.

 

[Chronos]

All you need to do is figure out what dark energy is and how to generate it with sufficient strength. NASA is still doing related work in this area.

 

[Nenad]

yep, if you can find a way to create a large lump of mass above you, it will pull you up, but then again, the Earth will be pulled too so...

 

[Pythagorean]

I'm more interested in finding ways to deviate or interact with gravity. Of course, I have no idea how gravity works aside from the elementary, so it will definitely be an area of study for me.

I've imagined for some time now that gravity is a ultra low frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum, or that somewhere, somehow, it fits in.

basically, I hypothesize that gravity is a frequency so low that it would take hundreds of years to detect the peaks of the wave. This could be a very pseudointellecual thought as I have no real physics education, only pop-science and other laymen influences.