We now know what causes gravity. It is the variation in space-energy associated with each condensation of energy we call a particle and the tendency of any space-energy depletion to obtain symmetry. The Universe is self-balanced by its space energy. Although changes in space-energy (which carry information) propagate no faster than the speed of light, the tension of space-energy itself may not have any particular speed limit. There is still much to learn about the workings of the Universe. Is there a way to alter the space energy gradients to achieve gravity shielding, or perhaps some kind of gravity repulsion? Perhaps there is. Read on …..

 The search is on for anti-gravity. Governments are funding considerable research based on particle and quantum field theories. Individuals are delving into heavy mathematics looking for clues hidden in esoteric symbolism. Physicists who study extremely high-energy particles are building super detectors to attach to their matter-antimatter accelerators in hopes of discovering the next super-particle. Much of this activity has been reported in the popular press, and scientists generate book after book telling, telling…really not much. Because of our near sightedness, we only find what we are looking for. If you look in every nook and cranny of a mathematical equation, you are bound to find a few nooks and crannies. It's going to take a big change in thinking to get to the next plateau of understanding. Can we achieve antigravity? First we have to ask what does antigravity mean? If we can figure this out, we can at least devise a plan for fruitful investigation.

 Gravity, as we have seen, is the Universe's way of collecting all its matter (condensed energy and photons) over many eons into a gigantic super crunch. Each and every particle is sitting at the bottom of its space-energy depletion, which we call a gravity well. Particles compete for available space-energy. And since energy must be conserved exactly, the gravity wells lose their symmetry, and the resultant asymmetric forces drive the particles together to form planets, stars, solar systems, and galaxies. Each body in the cosmos, no matter how big or small competes for space energy. The Universe is a collection of distorted gravity wells.

 We Earthlings, like everything else, are collections of particles that are located at the center of our own gravity wells. Each one of us has a gravity well. My dog, Brook, has his own gravity well. Earth is big and dwells within a huge gravity well it is in the midst of. Brook's well and my well are pushing toward each other but the effect is extremely weak compared with our individual gravity wells in relation to Earth's gravity well. My center and Earth's center are being pushed toward each other. Earth is big, and I am small, so I do most of the moving. But Earth is hard (at least on land) and I don't go below the surface. The combined asymmetry of my well with Earth's well push on me and Earth with a force of 150 pounds. If a hole opens up in the floor, I fall toward Earth's center and Earth falls toward my center. When I and the bottom of the hole hit each other, I will hurt. Earth will come out OK. What would an antigravity machine do in a situation like this?

 If this were a science fiction film the machine operator would yell out, "subspace energy warp!" and adjust the "graviton control," and I would float over the hole, saved from broken bone syndrome. The made-up words "subspace energy warp" and "graviton control" sound scientific but we do not know how to nullify gravity. Not yet.  The machine would have to correct the space-energy asymmetry caused by the interaction of my gravity well and Earth's gravity well. It would have to increase depleted space energy so that my gravity well and Earth gravity well become symmetric. When my gravity well is uniform around me, I will not experience a gravity force. The International Space Station and its astronauts have symmetric gravity wells. It is achieved the hard way. With a lot of rocket fuel the space station sections and cosmonauts were brought up to orbit speed and once in orbit, the kinetic energy of orbiting restructures their gravity wells to near-perfect symmetry. The result is weightlessness.

 Some scientists are looking at the possibility of being able to shield an object from Earth's gravity.  Ordinary matter cannot shield against gravity because all matter carries with it, its own space-energy depletion. And as we have seen any two bodies compete for the available space-energy, leaving a region of enhanced depletion between the two bodies. The resulting energy gradients, the forces, are always directed to push the bodies together. My glass of water, sitting on the table, is being pushed toward Earth's center, because there is less space-energy in the space between my glass and the center of Earth.

 To achieve the state of weightlessness known as levitation by magicians requires the addition of energy to the space located between the body of interest and Earth. If we knew how to do this the space-energy of the body would become symmetric and the body would appear weightless. How much energy does it take? It would be precisely equal to the escape energy which equals half the mass times the square of the escape speed. When we make the necessary substitutions for mass as energy and use the Universal Ratio (explained in Gravity Decoded) we get:

            Levitation Energy = (2/3) (N_BN_EE_nL/N_U R_E)

Where N_B is the number of nucleons of the body, N_E is the number of nucleons of Earth, E_n is the nucleon energy, L is the size of the Universe, N_U is the number of nucleons in the Universe and R_E is the radius of Earth.  Consider the levitation of a person weighing 150 pounds. I calculate that levitation requires the proper placement of 4.6E9 joules of energy. Think of that, levitation would be possible with only 4.6 billion joules of energy. This energy equals the output of a megawatt heater operating for an hour or a household kilowatt heater operating for 35 days. If electrical energy could be converted to stored space-energy and done efficiently it would cost approximately $150 at today's rate of 12 cents per kilowatt-hour to demonstrate levitation.

 To achieve antigravity and repulsion, it will be necessary to reverse the net value of the space energy gradients. In effect, the net space-energy density located between any two bodies would have to be greater than the mean energy density of space. This is an energy problem. As bodies gravitate toward one another, they are moving to a region of lower space-energy. To stop or reverse this motion, energy must be supplied to the intervening space. There is no free lunch. Some other kind of energy configuration will be needed to provide the desired repulsive force. We must control space-energy and create a configuration of space-energy that would diminish or reverse the gravity force.

 Another way of saying this is that we must make the space energy depletion of a given body symmetrical for it to be immune to the space energy gradients of any nearby bodies. To be weightless is to be symmetrical in space-energy. Can it be done? Maybe.