On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:22:53 -0800 (PST), some gomer wrote:

There is no way a charge can travel in a straight line up to the
heavens and down again
without the neutralisation of gravity and without the auspices of
spin .

How does one neutralize gravity? The anti-gravity of comic books?

Let's see, the energy of an electromagnetic interaction is
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times greater than gravity.

So, when an electron pushes a charge against gravity, it has 400dB
more effect than gravity pulling back. In comic book terms, that is a
Thousand, Billion, Billion, Billion times stronger than gravity.

An ant weighs 0.003 grams, and the Earth weighs 5.9 x 10^27 g, so you
would need 10000000000 planet Earths to replicate the neutralization
between the energy of gravity and the energy of electromagnetic
interaction (assuming the ant was an electron of ant-like proportions,
energy-wise).

Such is the sandtrap of neutralization across units of measure. It is
much like the folks of 100 years ago claiming a car couldn't drive up
a hill without a warp drive engine with a dilithium crystal controlled
gravimetric field displacement manifold.

As we all know (or almost all), Gene Roddenberry is the authority to
turn to on the basis of this last claim being fulfilled some 50 years
from now by Zefram Cochrane developing the first warp-capable
starship. How we currently get to the top of hills in a car is
considered as an example of superstitious mass hysteria.

We can all rest assured that this meets the criteria of not coming
from any text book because it hasn't happened yet. *Whew* Hence, it
cannot be disproven. Don't rush to the patent office however, this is
considered Post-Art.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC