New Paradigm for Technology

The next paradigm for technology advance is in the transportation industry

Current Transportation and Proposing Gravity as a Source of Motion for Transportation

Mankind’s next step in the intellectual evolution of technology is transportation. Current modes of transportation have caused a mess. The entirety of Western Civilization revolves around the automobile. Although Western Society began its growth with train technology, and its pattern of real estate development was transit oriented, it has evolved into an automobile centric pattern of growth.

As Western Society replaced its source of transportation from trains and streetcars to the automobile, it became dependent upon the proliferation of unsustainability. The automobile is wholly unsustainable; economically, environmentally, and socially. 

In 1982 the United Nations (UN) changed the name of its World Commission on Environment and Development and initiated the Brundtland Commission. The task of this organization was aimed at producing a report addressing the; "Process of preparation of the Environmental Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond". The result was establishing the term “sustainable development”. It sets guidelines which outline economic, environmental and social aspects to urban growth.

Those previous three paragraphs are to make a point. The foundation to all urban growth is in its primary source of transportation. Since the automobile is wholly unsustainable, building an entire society upon this unsustainable foundation becomes problematic. 

It is imperative, therefore, to discover and build a sustainable methodology of transportation.  Developing a methodology of transportation utilizing gravity as the source of movement, provides a solution valid for exploration.

The automobile is overwhelmed with inefficiencies. In a chemically fueled piston motor, the explosion creating the power stroke in a four stroke cycle is contained within a cylinder, and is able to capture more than just one degree of energy release of that 360 degree pattern. Yet, the nature of utilizing chemical explosions as propulsion, has reached its pentacle of intellectual advance. But changing the automobile’s fuel source doesn’t make a car sustainable. An electric motor increases a car’s motor efficiency but roads remain the main source of environmental damage. Automobiles still add to economic instability and stimulate social isolation. Roads are the foundation to Western civilization growth patterns.  If every car was electric, it would do nothing to lessen traffic jams, nor would it affect the lessening of traffic stress.

The automobile as the primary source for transportation is unsustainable.

And, as inefficient as automobiles are, and the environmental disasters caused by society’s dependence upon automobile proliferation, let’s take a closer look at rockets. Although rocket technology is often considered the pentacle of engineering achievement, step back for a more accurate perspective. What do we see? 

A rocket being launched to escape Earth’s gravitational pull, has to achieve a speed of 25,000mph (actual speed is variable to meet rocket’s mission and other launch conditions). 

Rocket engines use chemical explosions as the source for propulsion. The energy expenditure of a chemical explosion releases its force in 360 degrees. The directional course of a rocket is 1 degree. Has no one ever asked the question: how efficient is it to capture one direction of energy release since an explosion releases a 360 degree pattern?  In other words, a rocket is only going one direction but the explosion is pushing its energy force in 359 opposing directions (yes, I'm fully aware that many degrees are captured; the statement is merely making the point of massive inefficiency).

In November 2021, a nationally syndicated news organization announced a headline story that the NASA solar probe, Parker, had become the fastest object built by humans. It passed the Sun at a speed of 364,621mph. This was accomplished by its “gravity assist” speed boost in making a close passage to Venus.

Using the best engineering available, mankind has achieved 25,000mph. Light speed (C) is 186,828 miles per second. 25,000mph is one-twenty-five-thousandth of C (actually, 0.000037279123279345). For human engineering to reach only 1% of C, it requires a mechanism to attain the speed 186.282 miles/second, or 670,617 miles/hour. Parker, NASA’s solar probe, reached half the speed of 1% of C. How?  By utilizing the attractive nature of gravity. The conclusion, to this author, is that the attractive nature of gravity is much more advantageous than the current engineering pursuit of propulsion in space travel.

The focus of CATTCC is to look at gravity as a source of motion for transportation. The objective is to devise an apparatus to capture gravitational flow. 

A new mode of transportation is essential.

As the introduction sentence to this section states: “Mankind’s next step in the intellectual evolution of technology is transportation”, there is another clarification regarding transportation. The future of transportation floats. How can this happen? The only perception of how this can happen is with the utilization of gravity as the source for motion. 

Some refer to the use of gravity as anti-gravity, however, that term is inaccurate. 

The question continues: what is gravity? How does it work?

What do we look for, in considering gravity as the source of motion for transportation? Specifically, it is the attractive force that gravity has which is our focus. All current forms of transportation use propulsion as the source of motion. Let’s look at the attractive force of gravity as the source to attract an object; and utilize that as the source for transportation motion. The point is in the discovery for society’s next step in transportation: it floats and its source for motion is gravity, this identifies two areas of discussion: floating and gravitational attraction. As a source for transportation movement, gravity requires the capability of weightlessness, or the equivalent in levitation. 

What is the attractive force of gravity? It’s force was measured in an equation by Issac Newton 400 years ago. It’s measured by knowing the result of a motion.  If you are standing on Earth’s surface holding a set of keys in your hand and release the set of keys, it doesn’t require a college degree in physics to know what will happen: the set of keys will be immediately attracted to the ground.

To reiterate, the future of transportation floats and its source of motion is by gravitational force. To reach that objective, we acknowledge that gravity is the most abundant force in the universe. 

How does it work? How can gravity serve as the source of motion for transportation? According to the Biefeld-Brown Effect, align a positive charge of a capacitor on the leading edge of a transportation apparatus and a negative charge on the trailing edge. Okay, that’s a magnet. This is beyond the capability of magnetism; magnets aren’t attracted to all objects but electrogravitics applies to all matter. As a source of motion for transportation, how does this provide floatation or levitation? And how does this provide acceleration?

These are topics of interest at CATTCC. We're a think tank to discover the next mode of transportation.