Remember the idea is that cells with mass-bearing particles on them swell a little, putting pressure on the surrounding cells and increasing the cell surface areas of adjacent cells, thus increasing the probability that particles will jump towards the cell with mass, thus appearing like a force. The other three forces all express themselves as waves traveling through the cells, causing cells to momentarily grow in one direction and then return to normal size. Therefore the cells do expand as energy waves pass through them, but the net gravitational energy is zero.
However, if a craft were able to emit energy from multiple points at a location just in front of it, and synchronize the phase and intersection point of the beams such that a standing wave node forms right in front of it, then this would create an area of gravitational pull and time slow down.
The craft would be propelled towards the point only for the point to move since the focus point of the beams is fixed relative to the body of the craft. Therefore the craft would continue to accelerate chasing the gravitational well it was producing.
Such a gravitationally driven craft would have its engines, as it were, in the front of the craft while traveling through space. Alternatively the craft could be described as “driving backwards”. When it gets to a planet, it could then hover and move about by continuing to generate a gravitational well above the craft, canceling out the force of gravity of the planet. It could move by subtly moving the focus point in the direction it wants to travel. A round shape would probably work best as far as aerodynamics goes.
What do you think? It seems like this would be testable just by “crossing the streams” of several lasers (that’s a Ghostbusters reference).
I’m not sure how the frequency of the laser would come into play. It would seem intuitively that a short wavelength, high energy laser would work best–and the more lasers the better.
This seems like a similar configuration to the pulse-fusion laser systems, but these have lasers from every direction. I wonder if anyone ever thought of checking to see if a small gravitational jerk was momentarily produced for the short time while the lasers were on. It couldn’t be that strong or it would have been discovered by now. If the effect were really strong, the sphere could potentially implode as it would be like having a small black hole for a short time in the middle of the sphere.