Antimatter Hypothesis: Antigravity Technology

An urban myth claims that only an extraterrestrial invasion could unify the human race. How about an extraterrestrial opportunity? Harnessing antigravity technology will change the future of transportation. Just imagine the energy efficient delivery of satellites into orbit. Air transportation would never fall out of the sky and crash again, because that would defy the law of antigravity. Antimatter harvested from outer space, safely outside Earth’s atmosphere, will seed a new industry of practical applications for antigravity technology.

Antigravity vehicles become feasible by surrounding a dense, metallic, antimatter material with an insulating layer of matter holding a vacuum. By an insulating layer I mean a nonmetallic substance like a ceramic or a carbon lattice like graphite, not a conductive material where the electrons are free to flow. The containment vessel needs to prevent the possibility of electrons combining with positrons from the antimatter. Like magnetic bearings, gravity-antigravity repulsion will keep the two materials separated.

Space faring solar furnaces may be needed to process the antimatter into spheres, rods, ingots, monoliths, or whatever desirable shape. A massive antimatter sphere suspended at the center of a hollow matter ball, or a large antimatter rod down the center of a hollow matter cylinder produces gravity pushing outward on the inside matter walls, where unattached matter will drop. Placing antimatter in the skin of the craft, an antigravity vehicle becomes frictionless in Earth’s atmosphere. The interior of the spacecraft would exhibit gravitational anomalies full time since vehicles of neutral gravitational buoyancy possess both matter and antimatter. With the proper propulsion system, antigravity vehicles are conceivable with benign environmental side effects.