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Anti-Gravity Device Patented

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shouldn't-it-have-to-work-before-you-patent dept.

October_30th writes "According to the United States Patent Office website, Boris Volfson has recently patented a "Space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state", which is essentially an anti-gravity propulsion device." The validity of this patent remains to be seen, but the general consensus of the physics community seems to be that it is complete malarky.

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  1. Re:In Context... by dbIII · · Score: 3, Informative
    the guy in from of me is carrying papers describing tractor beams
    Already been done - it's part of a tractor chassis.