{"id":1131,"date":"2009-03-27T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2009-03-27T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:00:39","slug":"aether-propeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/27\/aether-propeller\/","title":{"rendered":"Aether Propeller?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was trying to figure out how planes stay in the sky.<\/p>\n

So this is what I came up with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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As the plane moves forward, a small vacuum is created above the wing. The vacuum is a low pressure zone which pulls the wing up and the air down to fill itself in (because Nature HATES a vacuum).\u00a0 This upward pull that the low pressure zone creates we call lift.<\/p>\n

I thought, “Hooray.\u00a0 This isn’t so complicated!\u00a0 Planes stay up because they create small vacuums above their wings as they move forward, creating an upward force.”<\/p>\n

Then I thought, “And this is why planes can’t fly in outer space, because there is no air to displace and create a vacuum.”<\/p>\n

Then I thought, “But if there is an aether theory, why not?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So as a wing moves through a vacuum, generally we don’t think there is anything to cause lift or drag.\u00a0 But if we have an aether theory of a vacuum, i.e. there is some substance below what we can observe that our matter exists within, then why can’t we create a vacuum in that substance?<\/p>\n

My line of thought was: Air is to Vacuum as Vacuum is to Black Hole.<\/p>\n

Can’t we just spin a propeller fast enough in outer space to create lift?\u00a0 As the prop turns small vacuums in the aether will be created, and, insofar as Nature hates vacuums, a force will be created to fill in this vacuum, pulling the propeller in that direction.<\/p>\n

(Someone please tell me how this is nonsense so I won’t go around thinking I’ve come up with a new model of space flight.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was trying to figure out how planes stay in the sky. So this is what I came up with. As the plane moves forward, a small vacuum is created above the wing. The vacuum is a low pressure zone which pulls the wing up and the air down to fill itself in (because Nature HATES a vacuum).\u00a0 This upward pull that the low pressure zone creates we call lift. I thought, “Hooray.\u00a0 This isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27,31,34,37],"tags":[70,270,279,136],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-physics","category-random-idiocy","category-science","category-technology","tag-ether","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-space-aether"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}