Researchers at NASA have made a new discovery about Earth, and it's an invisible force discovered on the planet's poles that opposes gravity itself

theres a hint there about spsce travel

  • icerunner_origin@startrek.website
    201·
    2 months ago

    Key Points

    • A rocket team reports the first successful detection of Earth’s ambipolar electric field: a weak, planet-wide electric field as fundamental as Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields.
    • First hypothesized more than 60 years ago, the ambipolar electric field is a key driver of the “polar wind,” a steady outflow of charged particles into space that occurs above Earth’s poles.
    • This electric field lifts charged particles in our upper atmosphere to greater heights than they would otherwise reach and may have shaped our planet’s evolution in ways yet to be explored.
    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldOP
      31·
      2 months ago

      be cool if we could create that field at will with an ability to strengthen it enough to propel a manned craft beyond our solar system

      • seaQueue@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        Even being able to generate enough lift to send a payload into orbit would be an amazing advancement. We can solve propelling craft out of the solar system later, first we need an economical way to get off planet that isn’t just burning fuel to lift fuel.