Anti Gravity: One solution

"Antigravity?" you ask. "You're not serious!"

Clearly, you fail to realize how serious I am. Let us first understand what gravity is.

Similar to magnetistm, it is like a field that emanates off every object and interacts with every other object. By that I mean with every object, not just odd numbered or even numbered ones. We must be precise if this is to work! Unlike magnetism there is no north or south pole. Every pole is the same and every one attracts, none repel. That's too bad, because if a certain element repelled, all we would need is a chunk of the stuff in our pants. It doesn't, so we must continue this article, painful as that may be, but at least our pants fit comfortably.

Gravity can also be compared to droplets in a waterfall. We make the analogy because just as light possesses the character of "duality", behaving in some ways as waves and in some ways as particles*, gravity can be viewed as waves and particles. Only after we have explored both can we harness its power. The trick, in this analogy, is to swim up the waterfall by paddling our arms faster than the drops are falling. We have to flail them fast enough to overcome our own weight also. This is quite an effort. Salmon can do it but they are not actually swimming through the water so much as jumping through it, only to fall back and in the best case, above the falls. By contrast, our dream, our vision is to be like a hovering salmon.

So we have our work cut out. No animal can swim against a waterfall. Even a machine such as a helicopter works better in dry air than it would in a waterfall. Our particle analogy does have a flaw. Whereas the water collects at the bottom of the falls, gravity never collects. Whereas water may or may not evaporate and rain back down at the top of the falls, gravity never seems to do this either. And there are no gravity storms. So it seems we are trapped, cornered, without any possibility of finding a solution. But I have one.

Conventional matter cannot oppose gravity. Nor have any fields been discovered that oppose gravity. But there is one thing that we have obverved: Every particle of matter attracts every other particle. At this point, I could get sidetracked and look for the odd or even numbered ones that don't but I am wise to that one. Not that. If an object is allowed to move freely momentarily suspended in the air, through the passage of time it will eventually be pulled to the ground, gradually accelerating with increased velocity. The clear solution then is this: Use matter that is traveling backward in time. A hunk of this stuff, through the passage of time from our point of view, or the negative passage of time from its perspective, would gradually pull away from the planet.

I realize this replaces one impossibility, antigravity, with another, the backward travel through time at a constant rate, to achieve the same effect as antigravity. To that, I would say, let's look for it, and let's further simplify the effort by removing the requirement that it must travel backward at a constant rate.

*Duality, for example, the bright sunlight on the beach while you peacefully watch the waves, only to be abruptly shaken from your reverie when someone kicks sand in your face, getting one of the annoying particles in the same eyes. You then step into the waves to wash it out. If you thought ahead and worked out with weights (which works best in a gravity field such as the planet you are on), you may return to the beach and beat up the guy who did it.