No that’s not right – the photonic metamaterial that they're presumably studying right now has been described as very thin alternating layers of bismuth and magnesium, which have nonterrestrial isotopic ratios, and the atoms of these metals in each layer are precisely atomically aligned. No industrial materials on Earth are aligned at the atomic level – IBM has arranged a small number of atoms with this level of precision using an atomic force caliper, but it’s an arduous process and creating a macroscopic sample like this would be extraordinarily difficult and expensive, if it’s possible at all, at present.
In the middle of this previous post I described a viable mechanism that recently came to light within the field of photonic metamaterials research that could, at least in theory, produce an extremely minuscule but nevertheless real reduction in mass via activation with THz radiation:
Heavy Science. Time Travel.
That mass modulation mechanism is based on the stress-energy tensor that describes the properties of a photonic metamaterial, which of course corresponds to the stress-energy-momentum tensor in general relativity. So the coupling mechanism in this scenario would be the pressure terms in the Einstein stress-energy tensor.
I can’t fathom why you’re so convinced of the significance of that Dutch architect’s kooky quantum lattice tetrahedron conceptual art project…but to each his own.
This has nothing to do with
that, suffice to say.
One of the experiments that we can presume they’re doing, would involve exposing the layered metamaterial sample to a specific frequency of photon radiation in the THz band while measuring its mass with some very sensitive device, to quantify the mass reduction effect that Tom DeLonge first described on the Joe Rogan show about 8 months ago (he starts talking about it around the 33min mark):
I was just poking around on Instagram and was surprised to see these two posts which indicate that they’re about to make an important announcement, which I presume relates to their findings on this subject:
And especially this one that Tom DeLonge issued today:
I’m trying to curb my enthusiasm right now, but it’s impossible, because if this means what I think it means, then we could be about to witness a world-changing moment in human history – the exact moment, in fact, that I’ve been trying to achieve via my theoretical studies for forty years: the discovery of a viable method for manipulating the gravitational field with attainable levels of energy.
But it’s also possible that I’m reading into a series of extremely unspecific cues to see what I want to see, so I’ll be on pins and needles until we know for sure what’s going on here…
You have a dry wit – bravo, good Sir!
Yes – all of this talk about extra dimensions is absolute speculation: there is to date
zero evidence for additional physical dimensions beyond the four that we know and love. Superstring theory and brane theory remain nothing more than the fever-dream of theorists who are more enamored with mathematics than physics, imo.
I would love to see some empirical evidence for the existence of additional physical dimensions – however, to date, no such evidence exists. So when people go around proclaiming that this stuff is codified reality, I can only roll my eyes.
But here’s an interesting thought that I had recently: we know via the prevailing model of cosmological evolution that
4D spacetime was created during the Big Bang. So if four dimensions can be created through some physical field mechanism that we have yet to comprehend, then it may be possible to locally synthesize additional physical dimensions within a given volume through some technological means. It’s difficult to imagine what the technological applications for such a technology might be; perhaps a novel method of fusion containment, or perhaps a new type of wormhole for instantaneous travel between two such devices operating in different regions of the cosmos, or perhaps simply a variety of large independent chambers superpositioned within one small craft, or other useful applications that we can’t even imagine yet.
It’s interesting to consider that even if our cosmos is limited to four dimensions, which it appears to be at this point, we may nevertheless be able to one day
engineer additional dimensions using a sufficiently advanced technology.
