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![]() Nice trick, if you can do it. McKie is a BuSab operative who travels to a wide variety of planets, which undoubtedly have a wide range of gravitational field strengths.
Some science fiction ideas seem absurd. How could you limit gravity? Gravity is a (relatively) weak force, but a planet-sized mass creates a force that is difficult for us to ignore. Most of the thinking about anti-gravity takes the form of some sort of generator that creates an opposite strength field.
But radio waves can be kept out of a space that is surrounded by a metal mesh screen. What if there was some sort of mesh that would keep out gravity?
For those who think that only people who think that space aliens built the pyramids are keen on the idea of anti-gravity, consider this exerpt from a letter exchanged between noted scientists:
Another technovelgy worth considering is what Baron Vladimir Harkonnen uses in Frank Herbert's Dune - the suspensor. Compare to the geopeller from One Against the Legion (1939) by Jack Williamson.
Here's a cartoonist's idea of what this might be like; George du Maurier created this drawing in 1879:
![]() (Edison's Anti-Gravitation Under-Clothing) You might be surprised how long ago the idea of weightlessness goes back. Comment/Join this discussion ( 3 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'Light from the sun hit those little spheres and bounced.'
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'... the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.'
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