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

Goedel's Theorem:

[delmoi]

Goedel's Theorem: You don't know what you think you know.

Goedel's Theorem:

That isn't godels theorem at all.

Re:Magnetics?

[s390]

Electomagnetic effects, more likely. This guy is passing "in excess of 10^4 A" at "in excess of 1MV" - that's over 10,000 Amperes current with more than 1 Million Volts applied (stand well back, folks - don't try this at home). How can Russia afford his power bill?

At these electrical energies, things will move simply by electromagnetic effects, which are stronger than gravity (much stronger).

Just another cheap Russian charlatan, nothing to see here, move along please. (How did this get posted here, it's a load of crap!)

Re:translation?

[SEWilco]

"I'm very interested in seeing someone get a positive result replicating this, don't care much about negative results becuase it's probably fairly touchy, like semicondutors, superconductors, cold fusion, etc."

I'd also like to see only the positive results of a few things...mind control, seances, telepathy, polywater, magnetic medicine, the Democratic Party...

Editorial Comment Not Needed

[RaboKrabekian]

"Let's see if I can summarize"

You make a snide comment about a paper which you are not in any qualified to analyze - or are /. editors suddenly nuclear physicists on top of being astute social historials and technological gurus?

Re:theory

[ConsumedByTV]

did you have to write like you were making a shitty hiaku?