calculations: unassisted flight - photon-thrust hover on your own mass, 2.2 mg/s

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interpretive shell ("therefore humans can never…" — almost always interpretive shell ("therefore humans can never…" — almost always
overreach), engineering backlog (mutable by definition). Most of what overreach), engineering backlog (mutable by definition). Most of what
humanity calls laws of nature lives in layers two and three. humanity calls laws of nature lives in layers two and three.
### Unassisted flight — the math
Photon-thrust hover, powered by your own mass:
required thrust F = m_body · g ≈ 70 · 9.8 ≈ 686 N
photon drive: F = P / c ⇒ P = F · c ≈ 686 · 3×10⁸ ≈ 2×10¹¹ W
mass burn rate: ṁ = P / c² ≈ 2×10¹¹ / 9×10¹⁶ ≈ 2.2 mg/s
≈ 8 grams/hour of your own reserve. A human body sustains beam-hover
for hours on its own inventory. Gravity holds; the fuel is internal.
Precedent: diamagnetically levitated frogs (Geim) — living matter,
floating unassisted in a field, no surgery, no implants. Proof of
concept hopped decades ago.
In this math gravity is a gradient among gradients — curvature,
possibly entropic (§16) — and gradients are harnessable by
construction. Not repealed: negotiated. Same as orbits.