How do landspeeders hover?
Do they use turbines to float over the ground on a cushion of pulsed air?
On Tatooine, such propulsion would raise clouds of sand and dust, but since we do not see any, there must be another explanation.
How about a magnetic levitation system such as the Maglev, the Japanese high-speed train? However, we see no sign of the required tracks.
A rapidly fluctuating magnetic field would also allow objects to levitate. Unfortunately, this phenomenon can only occur within the air-gap of a powerful electromagnet.
We would need to neutralize gravity locally, such as when we nullify an electromagnetic field with a Faraday cage. We just have to create a gravitational induction flux, the same as that produced in induction stovetops. The force of gravity can be countered by the gravitational field created when matter is accelerated within a cyclindrical self-enclosed tube (a toroidal solenoid). The matter used has to be as dense as a neutron star and its acceleration reaches the speed to the speed of light in some thousandths of a second. |