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Originally Posted by DaveC426913
That may be true, but that doesn't solve your drag problem. In fact, it makes it worse. The magnetic field will serve as drag, requiring consequently more power from the ship to push it. In fact, since the magnetic field would effectively give the ship a much larger cross-sectional area pushing through the atmo, you've now made the effort required much greater.
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Dave. True, but given the basic premise of manipulation of the principle of equivalence, drag is kind of moot. The odd thing that always struck me was anecdotal reports from primitive tribes, Inuits, Papua natives, bushmen....and they would first describe an object that lifted without airfoils or rocket noise, and then describe aerodynamic antics that one would scant give credence to
occupants living through it....unless the same effect that attenuates the gravity field..(an acceleration), attenuates the inertial acceleration ,too, when the craft does it's kinematic dance.
This of course presupposes that one can actually do that, which has no experimental verification...as of yet.
