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.

Scientists Are Beggars SPQR

[Anonymous Coward]

anybody who is working as a scientist or academician is is sitting at the table of some knowledge nazi helbent on killing modern science.

From the creeps who are claiming aspirin is deadly to the the attack dogs who deny our eldery the inexpensive benefits of pot & cocaine leaf, not the pure crap but the tea that used to be brewed from the leaves, to the congressmen who don't want you to share your music collection over Napster to, to the medical establishment who know their days are numbered, before computer diagnostics make doctors obsolete & the turkeys who want to create royal tombs for plastic gloves which is all that nuclear waste really is. to those who have ruined Americas water supply with a bunch of fraudulent land speculations. Wake up little Snow White you Peer Review is an invition to Oblivion ... as in Kaboom! If you can't trust the author of a paper what the hell makes you think that a commitee of bought & paid for mind thugs is going to help out.Its like the commies, who don't trust a government of capitalists from doing the right thing so they give it all to the government.

It is this kind of mind slavery that allows a NASA to spend 15 billion & turn out nothing.

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.