12-07-2010, 01:31 AM
New proof of the Spheres idea came from a new discovery published in Science News.
Every single day there is a new discovery that agrees with the idea. This is in addition to the untold amount of information pointing at the proof that already exist.
In this case, light was shown to act like air as it lifts an airplane, by changing the pressure between the top and bottom of the plane's wings.
what is unique about light is that it lifts the tiny wing at an exact 60 degree angles. If an airplane did that, people would get sick, and flying would not be pleasant.
The geometry of packed spheres explains this. A sphere is connected to the other spheres at exactly 60 degrees.
Light can generate lift
Researchers create a lightfoil that can push small objects sideways
By Laura Sanders
Web edition : Sunday, December 5th, 2010
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Light has been put to work generating the same force that makes airplanes fly, a study appearing online December 5 in Nature Photonics shows. With the right design, a uniform stream of light has pushed tiny objects in much the same way that an airplane wing hoists a 747 off the ground.
The researchers created tiny rods shaped kind of like airplane wings — flat on one side and rounded on the other. When these micron-sized lightfoils were immersed in water and hit with 130 milliwatts of light from the bottom of the chamber, they started to move up, as expected. But the rods also began moving to the side, a direction perpendicular to the incoming light. Tiny symmetrical spheres didn’t exhibit this lift effect, the team found.
Optical lift is different from the aerodynamic lift created by an airfoil. A plane flies because air flowing more slowly under its wing exerts more pressure than the faster-moving air flowing above. But in a lightfoil, the lift is created inside the object as the beam shines through. The shape of the transparent lightfoil causes light to be refracted differently depending on where it goes through, which causes a corresponding bending of the beam’s momentum that creates lift.
These lightfoils’ lift angles were about 60 degrees, the team found. “Most aerodynamic things take off at very gradual angles, but this has a very striking, very powerful lift angle,” Swartzlander says. “You can imagine what would happen if your airplane took off at 60 degrees — your stomach would be in your feet.”
Every single day there is a new discovery that agrees with the idea. This is in addition to the untold amount of information pointing at the proof that already exist.
In this case, light was shown to act like air as it lifts an airplane, by changing the pressure between the top and bottom of the plane's wings.
what is unique about light is that it lifts the tiny wing at an exact 60 degree angles. If an airplane did that, people would get sick, and flying would not be pleasant.
The geometry of packed spheres explains this. A sphere is connected to the other spheres at exactly 60 degrees.
Light can generate lift
Researchers create a lightfoil that can push small objects sideways
By Laura Sanders
Web edition : Sunday, December 5th, 2010
font_down font_up Text Size
View the video
Light has been put to work generating the same force that makes airplanes fly, a study appearing online December 5 in Nature Photonics shows. With the right design, a uniform stream of light has pushed tiny objects in much the same way that an airplane wing hoists a 747 off the ground.
The researchers created tiny rods shaped kind of like airplane wings — flat on one side and rounded on the other. When these micron-sized lightfoils were immersed in water and hit with 130 milliwatts of light from the bottom of the chamber, they started to move up, as expected. But the rods also began moving to the side, a direction perpendicular to the incoming light. Tiny symmetrical spheres didn’t exhibit this lift effect, the team found.
Optical lift is different from the aerodynamic lift created by an airfoil. A plane flies because air flowing more slowly under its wing exerts more pressure than the faster-moving air flowing above. But in a lightfoil, the lift is created inside the object as the beam shines through. The shape of the transparent lightfoil causes light to be refracted differently depending on where it goes through, which causes a corresponding bending of the beam’s momentum that creates lift.
These lightfoils’ lift angles were about 60 degrees, the team found. “Most aerodynamic things take off at very gradual angles, but this has a very striking, very powerful lift angle,” Swartzlander says. “You can imagine what would happen if your airplane took off at 60 degrees — your stomach would be in your feet.”