{"id":30070,"date":"2016-09-11T19:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T02:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/gravitation-under-human-control-this-proposal-could-transform-physics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:40:42","slug":"gravitation-under-human-control-this-proposal-could-transform-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/gravitation-under-human-control-this-proposal-could-transform-physics","title":{"rendered":"Gravitation under human control? This proposal could transform physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitation-under-human-control-this-proposal-could-transform-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Produce and detect gravitational fields at will using magnetic fields, control them for studying them, work with them to produce new technologies \u2014 it sounds daring, but Prof. Andr\u00e9 F\u00fczfa of Namur University has proposed just that in an article published in the scientific journal Physical Review D. If followed, this proposal could transform physics and shake up Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity.<\/p>\n<p>At present, scientists study gravitational fields passively: they observe and try to understand existing gravitational fields produced by large inertial masses, such as stars or Earth, without being able to change them as is done, for example, with magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>It was this frustration that led F\u00fczfa to attempt a revolutionary approach: creating gravitational fields at will from well-controlled magnetic fields and observing how these magnetic fields could bend space-time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/3tags.org\/article\/gravitation-under-human-control-this-proposal-could-transform-physics\">http:\/\/3tags.org\/article\/gravitation-under-human-control-thi...rm-physics<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Produce and detect gravitational fields at will using magnetic fields, control them for studying them, work with them to produce new technologies \u2014 it sounds daring, but Prof. Andr\u00e9 F\u00fczfa of Namur University has proposed just that in an article published in the scientific journal Physical Review D. If followed, this proposal could transform physics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60424,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070\/revisions\/60424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}