From 8019fb32070f62ec19e1edc687b8d230a58dd641 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "will.anderson" Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:45:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] calculations: unassisted flight - photon-thrust hover on your own mass, 2.2 mg/s --- docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md b/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md index 04825e794b..5a76b86732 100644 --- a/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md +++ b/docs/architecture/CALCULATIONS.md @@ -256,3 +256,21 @@ Every law audits into three layers: mathematical core (small, solid), interpretive shell ("therefore humans can never…" — almost always overreach), engineering backlog (mutable by definition). Most of what 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 Not repealed: negotiated.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.