Engineering View of Lazar's Anti-Gravity Physics

Engineering View of Lazar's
                      
                       Anti-Gravity Physics


                    George D. Hathaway, P.Eng.
                   Hathaway Consulting Services
                      39 Kendal Ave., Toronto
                      Ontario, Canada M5R 1L5


Introduction

This author was asked by Larry Fenwick, editor of the CUFORN Bulletin, to review a recent video describing Robert Lazar's theories and purported observation. In this video, Lazar repeats previous claims that he witnessed tests of advanced "flying saucers" of extraterrestial origin and took part in briefings describing their operation and mode of propulsion in a secret government facility in Nevada.

This paper will analyse some of the so-called "anti-gravitational physics" from a conventional engineering and physics perspective. As in most of these cases, the propounder of the theory tries to give it an air of respectability by invoking well-know and conventional ideas in the physical and engineering sciences as justification for the more speculative ideas. This is acceptable if the conclusions and inferences drawn follow a well-defined and rigorous development. If the development of the ideas is not rigorous, then there is no need to invoke conventional wisdom a priori. It is into this latter category that the anti-gravity theory of Lazar falls (hard).

For the clairity, this brief examination will be divided into three sections: Borrowing from Conventional Physics, Problems with Lazar's Physics, and Engineering Problems. The first section will highlight the background ideas from mainstream physics, primarily General Relativity theory, on which Lazar tries to build his case. The second section identifies problems with "Lazar Physics" and points out where pure speculation takes over  from conventional knowledge. The third section considers problems with trying to engineer the physical systems Lazar describes.

It is hoped that the level of understanding required to follow these arquments is the same as required to try to follow Lazar's thesis.

Borrowing From Conventional Physics

According to General Relativity, the three-dimensional space we generally perceive can be coupled to a time dimension and called "Space-Time". This concept can now be given physical properties including viewing it as a 4-dimensional "fabric" which can be bent,
or warped. Space-time can also be perceived as enveloping all masses in the univers, as raisins in a plum pudding. These masses, stars, planets, atomic particles, all have the property of causing the space-time fabric to bend, the amount of bend being a function of the mass involved. Since the measurement of distance is a function of the physical dimensions of the spatial portion of the fabric, bending the fabric will cause distance measurements to change. In fact, bending the fabric enough in the vicinity of our sun will cause the real distance to the nearby stars to increase.

Lazar seems to suggest that large masses (eg black holes ) are the only way to bend the fabric of space-time (apart from his gravity waves ). Two other methods are allowed by the theory, namely high charge density and spin, but he avoids mentioning these.

This bending would also cause light rays to follow curved paths around the object or spacecraft doing the bending, thus possibly rendering a craft invisible to outside observaters, as Lazar explains.

The strong force which binds positively charged protons together in the nucleus of a atom is well known, although its cause and precise mechanism are not.

Lazar's descriptipn of transmutation of elements to more or less stable elements by bombarding these elements with protons is substantially correct. It is known that by doing so, new elements can and have been produced, up to atomic number ( # of protons ) Z=110. However, most only last ( are stable for ) fractions of a second. It is speculated by mainstream physicists that if atoms could be manufactured with Z=115, they might be stable enough to last days or years before decaying into lighter elements by radioactivity. This is pure speculation, however.

It is also know that in certain high-energy atomic interactions with bombarding particles, a mirror-image of normal matter can be produced in tiny amounts, called anti-matter.  Upon colliding with atomic particles of normal matter, both particles annihilate each other with a tremendous release of engery, as Lazar points out.

These are the main points from conventional physics that Lazar uses to give the impression that what is to follow is not only reasonable but realizable.

Problems with Lazar's Physics

It is hard to conceive of the method whereby Lazar proposes to decrease the distance from our solar system to the nearby stars by bending space-time in the manner described. The simulation involving the fishing net model of space-time Lazar uses to demonstrate decreasing distance is at odds with General Relativity's description of actions near large gravitational fields.

So far there has been no hint that either anti-matter or gravitational waves will emanate from element Z=115 when bombarded by protons. If this was the case, one might expect to have seen some tendency to do this in the higher Z elements, such as those above Z=100. Why will this suddenly occur at Z=115 and nowhere else?

Most physicists agree that gravity, like other fields such as electromagnetism, displays complementary aspects of a particle-like and a wave-like nature depending upon the particular situation. Lazar's statement that gravity is only a wave with no particulate aspect is not supported by any evidence as far as conventional physics is concerned. Lazar also fails to mention those physicists who consider gravity to be neither waves or particles but merely special arrangements of electromagnetic fields or manifestations of a much more subtle energy form.

Lazar makes the correspondence between the strong nuclear force and what he calls "Gravity A". There is no strong evidence for this correspondence. Even if the strong nuclear force could be stimulated to reach outside the boundary of an atom as claimed by Lazar, there is no indication that it would act like normal gravity ("Gravity B" ) and or bend the fabric of space-time. Just because a force is attractive doesn't mean it is gravity. The only slight hint that there are differnet "forms" of gravity is in the discovery of the so-called "5th force", a slight repulsive force much smaller than normal gravity.

Lazar never clarifies how the same element Z=115 when bombared with protons can simultaneously release anti-matter and gravitational  waves. Presumably, the proton engery must be astronomical to preform just one of these feats. There is a terrible energy imbalance between available proton energy and that energy required to bend space-time, if General Relativity is to be believed.

If, as Lazar claims, element Z=115 is only found on certain stars whose density and mass are of a certain critical size, why has it not shown up on spectroscopic images of stars, of which we on earth have catalogued many thousands?

Lazar gives no indication of why it follows that mechanically directing these hypothetical gravity waves in a certain spatial orientation will therefore bend the space-time fabric in the required direction and thus foreshorten the distance in that direction and thus foreshorten the distance in that direction. There is no evidence from General Relativity that such bending can be made anisotropically (ie in a preferred direction ).

Engineering Problems

Lazar claims that since gravity waves are produced by Z=115 ("Gravity A") they can be amplified and directed. Becasue cosmological gravity is a function of masses such as stars and planets, the wave-like nature of gravity can have an almost infinite set of frequencies ascribed to it. This is due to the near-infinite variety of speeds and directions of all the masses in the universe relative to one another. for effective "anti-gravity" propulsion of the type described by Lazar, the bandwidth (capacity to amplify many frequencies) of such gravity wave amplifiers would have to be so large that we could not hope to engineer any such amplification scheme.

An amplifier must be able to distinguish what is being amplified from the power required to amplify whatever is being amplified. since gravity penetrates all matter, the amplifiers must be construced from non-matter, an unlikely situation. The directing of such waves from an amplifier via some antenna or gravity radiator is even more unlikely.

Even if such amplifiers and ratiators were realizable, why use element Z=115 as the source? Why not design a super-high frequency oscillator to replace the hard-to-get element 115 (since it is only available on or near stars)?

If the scale of the anti-gravity, anti-matter "reactor" shown in the video is any indication, the likelyhood of directing a super highly-energetic beam of protons up and around such a tightly-curved tube without a super magnetic or electrostatic field is negligible. This is assuming there is room in the lower deck of the craft to produce such a beam.

The most probable direction of anti-matter particles (likely anti-protons) emanating from Z=115 upon bombardment by high-engery protons is parallel to the incoming proton beam. By some magic, Lazar's reactor is able to bend the anti-matter beam 90 degrees downward. On earth, huge magnetic fields are required to keep anti-matter from touching the walls of any (normal-matter) container it is in so as not to annihilate prematurely. These are nowhere in evidence in Lazar's model.

Apparently the anti-matter particles are directed downward through a high vacuum and directly onto a "gaseous target" where they annihilate and heat is created. Lazar fails to inform us how to keep the gaseous target from being sucked up into the high vacuum. The heat so created is fed via the gas to a 100% efficient thermionic heat-to-electricity converter, thus completely skirting Carnot's heat-cycle thermodynamic law. The end-product, electricity, is supposedly used to power the gravity wave amplifiers (see above). Surely beings as advanced as those who designed this system would have found a better way of creating the necessary energy to drive the system.

Summary

It appears to this author that the anti-gravity physics of Robert Lazar as outlined in his recent video is either an attempt tp garner admiration and perhaps a job or else it is part of the larger disinformation campaign which seems to shroud such investigations. The slick delivery and smooth style with which the lecture was presented plus the mixing of conventional physics and wild speculation tends to indicate the latter option. It is another in a long series of deviations thrown at serious researchers to prevent them from arriving at the truth about the phenomenon. As usual, the time and effort wasted in trying to find any hidden nuggets of real, novel information are much greater than the potential reward of such a find, as is typical of disinformation stratergies. However, in this case, I cannot find any hidden nuggets no matter how hard I look.

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