How Important is a New Mode of Transportation?

Global population expansion

As society becomes more advanced technologically, and as the population increases globally, the demand for transportation is multiplied. Both city and urban growth are based upon their primary source of transportation. A sustainable transportation alternative; an immediate technologically advanced form of transportation is imperative. The word imperative needs to be strongly emphasized. Even more accurately, an absolute immediate need.

It’s a human condition to cling to what we perceive as normal. Normalizing an uncomfortable situation is an acceptable practice. It’s a normal thing. Western society understands that the automobile is unsustainable. The government’s legislative actions have led people to believe that the way to attain sustainability is to change its motor.

When a person has a surgical procedure, they remain the same person. With surgery, a body part might be repaired or even replaced, and, like a car; other than a new or repaired component: nothing else is different. When a car changes its motor, a car still remains a car.

Are roads different for a car with an electric motor? Does a car with an electric motor eliminate traffic jams? Do they prevent wrecks? Can people get traffic tickets in car with an electric motor? What effect to improve traffic do electric motors provide?

The automobile centric land-use design includes the motor used in a car. Automobiles are unsustainable.

10 years ago, the local City Transportation Director worked with the City Manager’s office and the local MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization, the State regulated; County transportation policy agency) and compiled a RFP (Request for proposal) for a transportation and engineering company to conduct a public poling; regarding the City’s bus service.

Due to the fact of my professional friendship with the City’s Transportation Director, he was able to talk freely; as a friend, and expressed some of his frustrations. As much as he desired to have the bus service preform as good as it could, he was frustrated about the results of the study. In his words, he shared that “People won’t let go of their car’s steering wheel until hell freezes over.”

Similar to the human condition of normalizing uncomfortable things, everyone is correct about their opinion: like having their own favorite color. A favorite color is never wrong. Most people have an opinion about the politically charged word: “green”. With the analytical perspective of a physicist: trained to focus on points of existence based on minute aspects of reality; the political word “green” is ambiguous. It’s designed to be ambiguous. Everything associated with the political word “green” is disingenuous and literally represents a politically idealistic utopia. That utopia condition can only be represented as an opinion based on emotion. But, this isn’t the message for this post.

What’s important about a new mode of transportation?

The context in this writing is asking the question: how important is a new mode of transportation? The answer is: a brand-new mode transportation is vital. It’s imperative that a brand-new mode of transportation be implemented immediately.  

Urban growth in Western Society is unsustainable because it’s based upon the automobile. The automobile is wholly unsustainable. Even though the automobile is unsustainable economically, environmentally, and socially, it remains the foundation to all Western Society’s urban growth. It’s crucial that the automobile be replaced about 50 years ago.

Propulsion-based forms of transportation are inefficient. Chemical explosions produce a 360-degree release of energy. With the single direction of a transportation device, the majority of energy in an explosion is consumed as waste. The faster a vehicle is propelled; the greater amount of fuel is consumed.

The call for sustainable transportation is urgent

Today’s social demands call for faster transportation speed; and fuel consumption increases. Electric motors in cars enable automobile unsustainability. The car is unsustainable, its motor is not the source of its unsustainability.

Where is the study and research to replace propulsion-based transportation? Disruptive technology happens in many ways. Sometimes it’s deliberate, occasionally by chance, other times it’s found by observation.

As much as my name is unimportant, I’m here to disrupt the scientific concept of gravity. Why? Gravity is everywhere, it moves everything. Yet, no one has been able to explain what it is and where it comes from. This isn’t about me; I’m not important, gravity is. Its’s everywhere. What is it?

What is gravity? Who can explain it? Who knows the answer? 400 years ago, Isaac Newton gave the scientific community the operational laws of physics that gravity follows.

Why is gravity important?

Because gravity is everywhere.

A 100 years ago, Einstein inadvertently discovered the answer that explains gravity. And yet, he never did realize what he’d discovered what gravity is. When he first released his theory of relativity, part of his thesis proposed the absence of ether. Nikola Tesla called him an idiot. Ten years later, Einstein changed his theory but, he didn’t recognize that it explained what gravity is.

I’m here as a disruption of what’s known about gravity.

According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, everything in our perception is traveling through the universe at light speed. Therefore, in every computation of subatomic mass, the speed of light has to be added. No movement is static. Everything is moving at light speed. The energy component of Einstein’s famous formula (Relativity is E=MC^2) means that as our relativity travels through the universe at light speed, energy is the square of light speed.

This is important to explain gravity. Gravity is the twist in the path of particle mass as all our relativity is traveling at light speed.

How does this relate to sustainable urban growth? Simple, understanding what gravity is; by knowing it’s the path of particle mass, we are able to manipulate gravitational influence and use this for transportation.

Researching sustainable modes of transportation begin with sustainable sources.