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Gravitational Repulsion Effect Claimed

Posted by michael on from the flying-cars-coming-out-real-soon-now dept.

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. Of course it would violate relativity... by Kalgash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SpaceTime physics defines a static world. Since our world is constantly changing SpaceTime physics is prolly wrong. http://home1.gte.net/res02khr/crackpots/notorious. htm I don't know if I hold with everything at the above link but it is certainly something to think about.

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  2. You sig by delmoi · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Since someone else commented on your sig, I figured I would as well.

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  3. I knew that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But what's even more impressive is the unknown force coming out of my ass. It's enough to make my butt cheeks vibrate at 783 MHz. What kind of force can be responsible for that???

  4. Burn! by z-axis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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. Ha ha, michael. You sure told that physicist!

  5. What's New? I've been Repulsive All My Life! by tenzig_112 · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    All those years I held the key to unifying the fields... who knew?

    People have been telling me for years that my presence pushes people away, that my breath repels people. Now I know why.

  6. Totally Offtopic by sasha328 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Evgeny Podkletnov 1
    1 Moscow Chemical Scientific Research Centre
    113452 Moscow - Russia
    E-mail: epodkletnov@hotmail.com
    Are they so poor in russia that their universities do not have their own domian presence?