Gravitational Repulsion Effect Claimed

TekPolitik writes: "Eugene Podkletnov, the physicist who claimed to have discovered an anomalous gravitational "shielding" effect in the 90s, but withdrew his original paper prior to publication, has finally published a new paper on the topic. The paper describes a new experiment that is related to the original experiment, but the nature of the new experiment is more suggestive of an inverse gravitational effect (that is, the device creates a gravitational push away from it), or in Trekkie terms, a repulsor beam. Aside from claiming to have pushed things around at a distance, Podkletnov claims that the results directly contradict general relativity." Let's see if I can summarize: the author claims that with a certain very cold superconductor transmitting a large quantity of electricity in an intense magnetic field, he has observed a "new" force which repulses objects.

Comments

Er... laws of physics are already well broken

[sam_vilain]

If anyone out there actually believes that the laws of physics as science currently see them are real, they are living in a very strange world. Miracles happen daily, people can levitate, see auras and teleport telepathically.

I am reminded of the subatomic particle the anomalon, whose properties vary from lab to lab, and the neutrino which has mass in the Soviet Union but not in the United States.

I must recommend the excellent book The Holographic Universe - by Michael Talbot - for those people that still think this high tech Physics is anything more than a few people's fantasies.

BS detector blaring

[osgeek]

Why does Slashdot even give crackpots like this a voice? It's typical cold fusion, room temperature super conductors, perpetual motion engine bull shit. It's one guy claiming to have obtained a result that even he admits contradicts general relativity.

Sure, sometimes these fantastic paradigm-shifting things happen. But when it's this far fetched, how about waiting for at least a little peer review?

We now return to your regularly scheduled "Oh gee, what if Superman fought Gandalf" speculation.