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First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stay-grounded dept.

CompaniaHill writes "Have scientists been able to artificially generate a gravitational field? Researchers at the European Space Agency believe so. "Small acceleration sensors placed at different locations close to the spinning superconductor, which has to be accelerated for the effect to be noticeable, recorded an acceleration field outside the superconductor that appears to be produced by gravitomagnetism. This experiment is the gravitational analogue of Faraday's electromagnetic induction experiment in 1831." The effect is very small, so don't expect to see it used in spacecraft any time soon. But the effect is still many times larger than the predictions of Einstein's theories. "If confirmed, this would be a major breakthrough," says [Austrian researcher Martin] Tajmar. "It opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world.""

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  1. oh uh by skynare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hoa, i knew i will witness time manchine.

  2. Re:i don't know about you guys, by Down_in_the_Park · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hell, if you look at mankinds history, this things must have happened some thousands years ago...Nero, Caligula, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and others were probably trained on that ship

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  3. Re:Can someone help explain? by gatkinso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is what happens when you drink too much Moosehead.

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  4. Re:Forgot spaceships by aquatone282 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You post a message about cats, large rubber bands, and buttered toast.

    And your sig is a link to an animal adoption agency.

    Is that where you get the cats?

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