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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.

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  1. Re:translation? by matrix29 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bullwinkle: "Rocky? Why is that mountain floating?"
    Rocky: (excited) "Bullwinkle! We've found the source of UpsiDaisium!"

    Boris: "The moose and squirrel have found it. Now we get rid of moose and squirrel."
    Natasha: "But how do we get to the mountain Boris dear if we kill moose and squirrel?"

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  2. OMG! by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does Alex Chiu know about this yet?! :^)

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  3. Re:Violates DMCA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have violated the spelling of the DMCA and will be jailed with the Village People.

  4. Documentation of artifical gravity. by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hooked up to my computer is a device which shoots ions onto a curved piece of glass. When I stop passing electrons to this device, and place a piece paper on it, the paper is pulled to it. Like gravity. My new energy source. I have documented my ion device in more detail here.

  5. Violates DMCA by UserChrisCanter4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Newsflash!

    The Gravity Advocates Association (GAA) has announced plans to file suit against the "repulsor beam", claiming it "circumvents established gravitational force technology"

    In other news, Podkletnov has been arrested by the FBI and is being held without bail on charges of "violating basic scientific laws"

    1. Re:Violates DMCA by rgmoore · · Score: 3, Funny

      Homer: Lisa! Go to your room!
      Lisa: But why?
      Homer: Because in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.

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  6. Gravitational Field by Cap'n+Crax · · Score: 3, Funny


    "Gravitational Field." Hmph! This whole story is repulsive!

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  7. +5 gratuitous joke. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well my eyes glazed over around the point when I got to "Based on Charged YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-y} Superconductor with Composite Crystal Structure" of the actual text, but based on Taco's description, I feel qualified to venture a joke:
    Let's see if I can summarize: the author claims that with a certain very cold superconductor [As opposed to the room-temperature kind--AC] transmitting a large quantity of electricity in an intense magnetic field, he has observed a "new" force which repulses objects.
    I believe that largely the same phenomenon has been known to the world for ages:

    It's called a subwoofer.

    Big woop, so now it's superconducting.
    </bad joke>


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  8. You don't need superconductors to do all that by rcw-home · · Score: 4, Funny

    All you have to do is strap buttered bread to the back of a cat.

  9. not news by taxman_10m · · Score: 4, Funny

    For as long as I can remember, I have been able to repulse objects. When I step up to a woman, *bammo*, she starts moving in the opposite direction. At first I thought this was an explainable force having something to do with "my face" or "my bony frame." But recent tests seem to indicate that the force is of unknown origin, a force, that perhaps, runs contrary to all known laws of physics. Too bad I was unable to publish my paper before this bozo. Mine would have been a lot more entertaining.

  10. Re:This is rather interesting. by grammar+fascist · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what you're saying is that we're getting closer to developing a main deflector dish?

    Coming up right after that is the inverse tachyon pulse, I suppose...

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  11. Re:theory by talonyx · · Score: 3, Funny

    No reason for haiku
    Must have been gravitation
    Pulled him to the task

  12. Re:theory by cygnus · · Score: 5, Funny
    wasn't there some CEO who vanished after he started doing reasearch with some guy about this stuff?

    yes, shortly after beginning the research, he inexplicably was shot off into outer space.

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