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

+5 gratuitous joke.

[Anonymous Coward]

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>


Yes, every editor is Taco. Especially that fascist Michael.

Re:theory

[cygnus]

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.