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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. What the other side has to say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Since the "normal" scientific will dismiss this off the bat as usual, what does the "underground" scientific community, which tries to deal with this type of phenomena, have say about it? (Yes it does exist, break out the tin-foil hats etc..)

    Well even they agree that the patent examiners have been duped and it would never fly. For a interesting compilation of discussions going within the community have a look at this article.

    Though real science aside, it would be very cool if it worked.