What would it take to have a functioning Cavorite?
Well first let’s look at how gravity works, or how we
believe it to work. Imagine the universe as a large cloth and on this imaginary
cloth set a bowling ball. The cloth has formed a cone shape around the ball.
This is what extremely massive things such as our earth, or the sun does to
space. It creates this warp in time and space. This warp is what then causes
everything to be attracted to large bodies much like a ‘coin whirl’.
So to create gravity all we need is shit tons of mass. So
the inverse must be true to create anti-gravity.
Anti-Gravity checklist:
- Shit tons of negative mass
- Creepy green glow
- Mad scientist laugh
Now how much negative mass would be needed to lift the
villain in the end of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman? What about that
really cool ship‽ Well that ship has some really cool gadgets/ a whole army of
henchman so it weighs maybe two jumbo jets? Why not. So then it weighs a total
of 800,000 kilograms! Which means our small Cavorite needs to create enough newtons
of force opposite of gravity, to lift this beast and to keep it flying, so F =
mg or F = (800,000) x 9.8. That means we need 7.84 x 10^6 newtons of force to
lift this sucker. Now to find the mass needed I believe and correct me if I’m
wrong, we can use F = GmM/r^2. Which leaves us with, 7.84 x 10^6 = (9.8)(m)(5.97219 × 1024)/ 6378^2. Further simplified and solved
for ‘m’, m = 7.84 x 10^6 (6378^2)/9.8(5.97 x 10^24) and a little maths… mass = 1.94353619388768e+38
negative kilograms, or one really heavy glass jar! Thus we can conclude that we
do indeed need shit tons of negative mass to lift this ship!
This doesn’t however explain why a ship using anti-gravity
to fly needs to be aerodynamic though… We’ll just say cause why the heck not!
