For as long as humans have looked to the night sky to divine meaning and a place in the universe, we have let our minds wander to thoughts of distant worlds populated by beings unlike ourselves. The ancient Greeks were the first Western thinkers to consider formally the possibility of an infinite universe housing an infinite number of civilizations.
It's a well known fact that Einstein denied the existence of black holes to his death bed. He said that their concept was to mind boggling to even contemplate. However, that hasn't stopped the rest of society proving conclusively that they are there. Even though only math originally predicted black hole's existence, however, with the advent of technological development we've have been able to conclusively prove that they are there through indirect celestial observations. Math, science and technology helps humanity see things that we ordinarily would not even know to think about let alone verify really being there. In fact many science fiction oddities have fast become the main stay of our real-time modern day technology and communications, like cell phones performing much better than the original ideas of them presented on Star Trek. So, why would it be that much harder to imagine that we already have the math, science and have even begun on the technological development of our very own Interplanetary / Interstellar vehicles. This is certainly the most obvious conclusion one will come to after reading this PopSci article titled "Taming Gravity". It's not hard to see the obvious implications of the technology being presented in this article. One would have to be pretty dense and/or extremely Conservative not to see it. "Taming Gravity" is about our modern day attempts by Dr. Ning Li to apply the "Bose-Einstein condensate phenomena" to technology for the purpose of "Taming Gravity". It's called A/C Gravity and I invite you to read the article to see why it is called that and to leave your own comments as to what you see in the promise of Dr. Ning Li's research. Suffice to say, that if Dr. Ning Li hasn't already been shut up by the US military, her last employment was with them in 2003, her research should yield the kind of brake through that so far has only found it's way onto SciFi studios. It makes one think that our current attempts of even thinking that we're on the same wave length as civilizations having any amount of time beyond our current situation as kids playing in the sand box. One can only imagine what Albert Einstein would think if he were alive today of all this childish hullabaloo resulting from his original discovery of Relativity. Ref: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1281736.html "Genious is nothing other than pointing out the obvious." Albert Einstein.
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