• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    This is like asking if we could manipulate the gravitational field to make ourselves weightless on earth. Both are fundamentally impossible

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      7 months ago

      Nothing is “impossible” in science. It’s difficult to experimentally prove negatives. Until we can experimentally prove something, we cannot pass any statements like these.

      For manipulating the gravitational field, we don’t even have a theory of quantum gravity. There is no evidence suggesting that you cannot manipulate it. However, there is no evidence suggesting that you can either.

      However, an absence of evidence for something does not mean that it cannot exist. It just means that we must not assume that it does exist.

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        7 months ago

        You clearly don’t understand field theory and what a field actually is. You cannot manipulate a field to suddenly not exist or behave differently in a specific location, otherwise its not a field and would not be mathematically congruent with our existing observations. We have very much proved that you cannot manipulate fields.

        Unless you feel like proposing a new model of physics that matches all of our existing observations and allows for your wacky nonsense, please stay quiet on the subject.