Repurpose451
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What does it take to make a piece of paper float? I am not talking about paper airplanes.
Hydrogen, helium, and hot air can be used to make a dirigible or a balloon float. Hovercraft. helicopters, and VTOL aircraft float, but they are powered with engines which use fuel. Ultralight aircraft use pedal power or solar cells - now we are getting somewhere.
A long time ago, the Greeks were fiddling around with gravity and levity. Levity ended up being kind of funny because the ancients where not very accomplished at making things float in the air.
The best that I have been able to do is put a couple of magnets in a tube, attach a wire to the upper magnet, and attach the wire to each corner of a piece of paper. It takes four of these subassemblies to make a piece of paper float. However, I am not trying to build a mag-lev train.
If it is possible to make a piece of paper float, then it might be possible to reduce the weight of an automobile or the weight of a semi-tractor trailer rig making cross-Country runs. Let's say that whatever can make a piece of paper float could be painted on or bolted on to a vehicle. This could save tremendous amounts of energy and reduce pollution.
There might be some combination of chemical elements (a mineral) which would allow a chunk of the mineral to float in air. If the crust of the earth is 30 miles thick, there might be some floating mineral trapped in an underground cave or perhaps in a deep oil well formation. Some of the mineral might find a path to the surface due a seismic event or an oil drilling operation. If there is only a small amount of it, perhaps it would float away completely undetected.
Perhaps there is a small amount of a mineral which floats trapped in larger stone or larger chunk of an inert piece of mineral. A stone or chuck of such a mineral might be waddling around somewhere on the face of planet earth waiting to be discovered. If found, a sample of the material could be taken to a lab somewhere. Analysis, careful separation, and retention so that it does not escape could yield a useful material which potentially could be replicated.
If you look into Madame Curie's discovery of radium (found in pitchblend), there was no material left at the end of countless chemical separations. It was only the glow of the final separated radium which was visible in a darken room which preceded the actual discovery of radium.
I understand that there is some point between the earth and the moon where the gravity between the two entities becomes equal. Maybe if there is a floating mineral (escaped from either the earth or the moon), it could be found somewhere between the earth and the moon.
I have looked at all sorts of things which float - solids in air pollution. colloids, plant / seed configurations which float, etc.
I have failed in my efforts to date. As I said, the crust of the earth is thirty miles thick. There are many grains of sand on planet earth. Who is to say there is not something out there waiting to be discovered. I think the key is to have the vision and belief that something is out there to be found. A prepared mind might be better to find it than a random discovery. It would be strange if a floating mineral sample was sitting inside a glass bottle on someone's dresser as a curiosity item. It might be bouncing around in the bottle or stuck against the lid.
I would remind you that Galileo, Roger Bacon, and Jules Verne dreamed of things which came to be. I will return to my mundane tasks now, but I wanted to share my vision. I keep looking and hoping.
Regards,
Repurpose451
What does it take to make a piece of paper float? I am not talking about paper airplanes.
Hydrogen, helium, and hot air can be used to make a dirigible or a balloon float. Hovercraft. helicopters, and VTOL aircraft float, but they are powered with engines which use fuel. Ultralight aircraft use pedal power or solar cells - now we are getting somewhere.
A long time ago, the Greeks were fiddling around with gravity and levity. Levity ended up being kind of funny because the ancients where not very accomplished at making things float in the air.
The best that I have been able to do is put a couple of magnets in a tube, attach a wire to the upper magnet, and attach the wire to each corner of a piece of paper. It takes four of these subassemblies to make a piece of paper float. However, I am not trying to build a mag-lev train.
If it is possible to make a piece of paper float, then it might be possible to reduce the weight of an automobile or the weight of a semi-tractor trailer rig making cross-Country runs. Let's say that whatever can make a piece of paper float could be painted on or bolted on to a vehicle. This could save tremendous amounts of energy and reduce pollution.
There might be some combination of chemical elements (a mineral) which would allow a chunk of the mineral to float in air. If the crust of the earth is 30 miles thick, there might be some floating mineral trapped in an underground cave or perhaps in a deep oil well formation. Some of the mineral might find a path to the surface due a seismic event or an oil drilling operation. If there is only a small amount of it, perhaps it would float away completely undetected.
Perhaps there is a small amount of a mineral which floats trapped in larger stone or larger chunk of an inert piece of mineral. A stone or chuck of such a mineral might be waddling around somewhere on the face of planet earth waiting to be discovered. If found, a sample of the material could be taken to a lab somewhere. Analysis, careful separation, and retention so that it does not escape could yield a useful material which potentially could be replicated.
If you look into Madame Curie's discovery of radium (found in pitchblend), there was no material left at the end of countless chemical separations. It was only the glow of the final separated radium which was visible in a darken room which preceded the actual discovery of radium.
I understand that there is some point between the earth and the moon where the gravity between the two entities becomes equal. Maybe if there is a floating mineral (escaped from either the earth or the moon), it could be found somewhere between the earth and the moon.
I have looked at all sorts of things which float - solids in air pollution. colloids, plant / seed configurations which float, etc.
I have failed in my efforts to date. As I said, the crust of the earth is thirty miles thick. There are many grains of sand on planet earth. Who is to say there is not something out there waiting to be discovered. I think the key is to have the vision and belief that something is out there to be found. A prepared mind might be better to find it than a random discovery. It would be strange if a floating mineral sample was sitting inside a glass bottle on someone's dresser as a curiosity item. It might be bouncing around in the bottle or stuck against the lid.
I would remind you that Galileo, Roger Bacon, and Jules Verne dreamed of things which came to be. I will return to my mundane tasks now, but I wanted to share my vision. I keep looking and hoping.
Regards,
Repurpose451
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