That's cool and all, but it has nothing to do with gravitational field propulsion or theoretical physics - scientists taking an interest in chirality is at best tangential to the level of technological capability available in the late 1940s (which is what I was talking about, albeit in a slightly hyperbolic manner).It's not exactly true, since the second half of 1800 we started to study the concept of chirality even if this wasn't completely grasped back then (Lakhtakia, A. (ed.) (1990). Selected Papers on Natural Optical Activity (SPIE Milestone Volume 15). SPIE. | Pasteur, L. (1848). "Researches on the molecular asymmetry of natural organic products, English translation of French original, republished by Alembic Club Reprints (Vol. 14, pp. 1–46) in 1905) and at the beginning of 1900 electromagnetic waves & meta-materials had already gained traction among engineers and physicists.
That's 5 years before the Special Relativity was published by Albert Einstein and roughly 10 before General Relativity, but much like the chirality of molecules the study was at its infancy and only 40 years later we could see the first results of these studies.
But that's irrelevant - being an AAV witness doesn't make anyone qualified to know what they witnessed. Following my sighting event as a child I spent over 40 years obsessively trying to figure out any way that the AAVs I witnessed could've been human tech, and I've conducted an exhaustive study of the academic scientific physics literature, and I've dug into every military science research leak that I could find, and I've examined every path forward in the direction of general relativity and gravitational field propulsion....and I can see no avenue available to mankind at present to build a vehicle with applied general relativity technology like the Tic-Tac AAV. So until someone can point out any even vaguely plausible way that we could produce such effects at this time in history, then I'm forced to conclude that such craft are not within human technological capabilities. In fact, since their performance characteristics prove that these craft are ideally suited to rapid interstellar spaceflight, (Knuth, Powell, etc), it seems like an inescapable conclusion that these craft originated elsewhere.Gary Voohris and Patrick J. Hughes for one are not completely sold on the idea of extraterrestrials and they still think it could be our tech.
We have the testimony of Cmdrs Fravor and Slaight, Kevin Day, Chad Underwood, and the absence of a heat plume in the existing Tic-Tac video, all indicating a total absence of a reaction propulsion mechanism at work with the Tic-Tac AAV. There's only one form of propulsion known to physics which can produce the erratic maneuvers seen by all four of those witnesses and depicted in the video, which is reactionless in nature: that's gravitational field propulsion - a technology totally unknown to terrestrial civilization. Ergo, there's a 99.999% chance that these babies arrived from interstellar locales.Does that mean the we must have anti-gravity or at least a way to reduce the load of g-force on a body and the associated effects? not necessarily.
The famous Tic-Tac hasn't broken the law of physics as we know it, at least it's not something we can affirm with absolute certainty until the NIMITZ Hawkeye Radar Data can be studied extensively and a better footage is shown, as the classic version of FLIR-1 isn't exactly telling.
No that's not a reasonable dismissal - people don't just "imagine" an object zig-zagging around in complete defiance of inertia. Certainly not the Commander of the Black Aces fighter squadron. I saw the same "impossible" zig-zagging maneuvers alongside four of my neighbors, when I was a boy, and it grabs your attention like nothing else, and you never forget it, because your mind tells you that what you're seeing is impossible. Except it's not impossible - it's a feature of gravitational field propulsion technology....a technology that global human civilization can envision, but hasn't yet made the first faltering step towards yet. To date, human tech can't even move a mote of dust using a laboratory-generated gravitational field. It is possible, we're just nowhere near that level of capability yet.Add the fact that we don't know if the vehicle was manned and if the pattern described by the various witnesses (Fravor has seen directly seen it, but we are not sure of who else did) are completely correct or have been tampered with emotions, exaggerations and a list of possible technical issues that have enhanced the perceived "erratic patterns" of the object.
99.999% chance it wasn't human. If it was human, then somebody has rapid interstellar spaceflight technology, like in Star Trek. The military is ahead of civilian technology, sure - but are they centuries ahead of global civilization? Very unlikely. They're great at expanding existing capabilities - we've all seen that. But pioneering and perfecting interstellar spaceflight technology? I don't see it. Could be. But most probably not.With that i'm not saying what could be and that is certainly ours, what i'm saying is that we don't know what that Tic-Tac was and how it behaved exactly.
It doesn't take a physicist to reasonably accurately report what you've seen with your eyes. Cmdr. Fravor saw that puppy bouncing around like a ping-pong ball reflecting off of invisible walls, and Kevin Day saw those things drop from 28,000 ft to the deck in .78 second. I think we can dare to take their word for it. When you start with the assumption that all witnesses are idiots and bewildered beyond all rational processing capability, then you'll tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater. So I don't do that.Pilots and Radar Operators are not physicists and physics is more tricky than it appear.
While an engineer certainly can chew physics and may have a vast knowledge in that field, it's hard to process what you're seeing directly in the field during an engage, especially if is out of your normal routine.
But there's no "advanced drone" that can leap from essentially a standstill, across 28,000 ft and arrive at a dead stop, in .78 second. If you're willing to believe that the US military has that kind of capability, then you might as well assume that they have human teleportation devices, replicators, wormholes, and time machines. The fact is that there's zero indication that humanity can even remotely approach such capabilities.It could've been very well an advanced drone that didn't behave exactly as described, but during the fuss and the excitement was incorrectly described and "identified" as something different from a F18-Superhornet or any other aircraft that you can name.
On the other hand we know that the universe is chock full of Earth-like worlds orbiting Sun-like stars, and they are on average 2-3 billion years older than our planet - plenty of time for intelligent species to arise, and radically transcend our scientific and technological capabilities to thereby leap across interstellar distances with ease. Enrico Fermi figured this out in 1950, when he asked "where is everybody?" It's foolish to begin from the assumption that interstellar spaceflight will remain an insurmountable hurdle even if our civilization survives another 2-3 billion years. Apparently lots of species have figured it out, and they're dropping by for a look around (or sending probes to do that for them), and they've been doing so for millennia, at least. Given the status of modern scientific knowledge, that's the most likely scenario anyway.
First - it's only tempting to discredit the witnesses if you start from the faulty position of "it's unlikely that alien beings visit the Earth." I see nothing unlikely about it. So when multiple witnesses explain seeing things which are A.) consistent between every witness, and B.) unexplainable by all known human technological abilities, then I don't find it surprising - they've simply had contact with a broader reality that surrounds us all.This hypothesis isn't aimed at discrediting the pilots and the data operators involved with the USS NIMITZ case, i have absolute respect for them, but we can't ignore how fallacious we are and how despite all the training we are subject to, we can still fail. We can't ignore that is the era of drones and it was the era of drones even in 2004, they were just less common and mainly used in a military ambient as most of the common technologies we become acquainted with, after they find their own place in our every day life.
We can't ignore how uSAP and wuSAP are still a thing and PALLADIUM/NEMESIS projects are something real and still receive funding as we speak. We can't for sure discuss the extend of their capabilities because those are information we're not privy of, but certainly if are still researched and funded it means they work very well.
Four pilots saw the Tic-Tac with their own eyes. It wasn't simply some wild radar-spoofing drone - it actually moved in ways that require an applied technology of general relativity, which we don't have yet, by all indications.When i mean they work very well, i mean that they work very well on spoofing instrumentation and confusing pilots/radar operators or else these anti-air warfare systems wouldn't be researched and possibly deployed.
I'm fine with that - in fact, that's exactly where I started after my own sighting. Now go forth young man and spend a few decades studying theoretical physics and technology and astrophysics, and then see if you can explain the Tic-Tac as any conceivable human technology. I can't do it. And if you can, then we'll finally know how to approach the problem, and we can work towards building one of these things. I'm all for that. But you'll have to be smarter and more imaginative than I am, because I haven't found a way for human science and technology to build one of these things. [Actually I've recently had an idea regarding how to go about it, but it would require a technology that could 3D-print matter in a crystalline lattice with atomic-scale precision, but it's more fun to speak a bit hyperbolically to drive a point home in online discussions]What is the Tic-Tac? i don't know nor i claim any special knowledge. Until proven otherwise, for me it's not necessarily alien.