posted on Dec, 18 2015 @ 01:51 AM
a reply to:
Aliensun
I have heard about the laser technology you speak of, but I have some concerns about the ocean spanning leap you take by speaking of massless craft at
this point.
The two technologies have nothing, zero, zilch to do with one another. Lasers have been around for an awfully long time, and it is great to see
military hardware finally use them for something other than simple targeting (in some respects...it is also somewhat concerning, but the nerd in me is
saying "it's about damned time"). But to create a massless craft, one would have to have mastery over the Higgs boson at least, if not the new
potential particle being hinted at by new results from the LHC, some sort of "heavy Higgs" boson, a chunkier prospect, if initial results and their
interpretation of data is anything to go by.
The behaviour of a massless craft in flight is something that we simply cannot replicate, even with the most powerful and dynamic engine models we
have today, or for that matter the most hardened and unrelenting airframes. Pulling a 90 degree turn at Mach 5 is still impossible for a man made
craft, no matter how you slice it, and until that ceases to be the case, we can rely on the fact that our craft still have mass. So on the massless
craft issue, when our craft can go from the ground, to outside the atmosphere, and accelerate to their maximum speed in the first meter of lift off,
vertically, then you might have a point. Until our aircraft can pull totally impossible, on a dime turns at maximum velocity, go straight up from the
ground at extreme speed without having to actually accelerate, and until they are basically capable of extra atmospheric flight, there is no reason to
believe they are using exotic technology beyond the ken of regular persons.
After all, I understand the laser technology you speak of all too well, and as for jet engines? Well...those have been around some time. There is no
hint at a change in the way those things operate in basic principle at the moment, so I think all this talk of massless this that and the others is
rather premature.