This was sent to me at work, as you can see, their is
work going on with the inertial systems but they still
don't have the keys. Personally I think the
superconductor experiments are highly erroneous,
having no connection to true gravity control, inertia
is the answer, but thats just my opinion...after all,
it is jut a matter of time;
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Lighter than Air - New schemes to cancel the pull of
gravity aren't just science fiction
By Corey S. Powell
In her laboratory at the University of Alabama, Ning
Li tinkers time and again with a device she believes
will transform the world. Tanks of liquid nitrogen and
a clumsy array of plumbing surround a chamber in which
the temperature has been reduced to 390 degrees below
zero.
Inside, a disk of an exotic ceramic material that's
about the size of a phonograph record spins rapidly.
Levitated by powerful magnets, the disk floats in
midair.
The contraption may not look like much, but Li insists
that the data she is gathering could rid mankind of
the shackles that bind us to the planet. "It could
change everything," she says. "Current industry will
vanish from the face of the Earth!"
A practical antigravity device could allow rockets
without propellant or power plants that run without
fuel. Li hopes to pave the way by designing an
antigravity car-and thinks she can do it in a decade.
Ever since an apple conked Sir Isaac Newton on the
head, sober thinkers have tended to sneer at anyone
who proposed to defeat gravity. Li herself jokes, "I
am not a normal scientist." Nor is she a crackpot.
NASA funds some of her research on the
gravity-altering properties of superconducting
materials-a phenomenon first reported nearly a decade
ago by a Finnish researcher-and three years ago the
agency set up an antigravity program of its own at the
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Research on gravity modification (the preferred term
in scientific circles) has been gaining credibility,
and physicists now speak increasingly of how little we
know about what gravity can and cannot do. "The number
of anomalies is growing," says Michael Martin Nieto of
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Japanese researchers were the first to claim some
success-however slight-at breaking gravity's hold in
the laboratory. A decade ago, Hideo Hayasaka and Sakae
Takeuchi of Tohoku University noticed intriguing signs
of liftoff while studying the behavior of high- speed
gyroscopes with metal flywheels spinning several
thousand times per minute.
When the gyros rotated clockwise, their weight seemed
to drop by about one part in 100,000. Hayasaka and
Takeuchi suspected an antigravity effect at work. Most
of their peers soon chalked it up to experimental
error, however.
Eugene Podkletnov, then a grad student at Tampere
University in Finland, inadvertently became a poster
child for the antigravity movement in the early 1990s
while studying superconducting materials that lose all
resistance to electricity when chilled with liquid
nitrogen.
Podkletnov was hoping to learn more about the behavior
of these superconductors when he placed ceramic disks
a few inches wide in a cold chamber, passed a magnetic
field through them, and then spun them rapidly. What
he observed completely took him aback. Objects placed
above the disks seemed to lose as much as 2 percent of
their weight.
Seeing a little antigravity is like being a little
pregnant: either something is there or it isn't. If
the effect is real, people could presumably figure out
how to magnify it and exploit it. So tales of
Podkletnov's discovery were soon circulating around
the globe.
But mainstream scientists remained skeptical. The
laboratory conditions needed to create a spinning
superconducting disk give rise to many misleading
effects that could change the apparent weight of a
test mass.
Nevertheless, Ning Li, who had published theoretical
papers on antigravity in the late 1980s and early
1990s, promptly rose to the challenge. In
collaboration with a nasa team, she constructed
superconducting flywheels as much as a foot in
diameter-a messy and technically demanding project-and
tried to reproduce the results of Podkletnov's
experiments.
Li and the NASA group have since undergone an amicable
split. NASA is focusing on validating the basic
experiments, while Li is concentrating more on
applications. She has stopped publishing papers and no
longer speaks of her techniques or experimental
results, saying she fears any delays will give foreign
researchers the lead.
NASA's separate and much more public Delta G
Experiment (Delta G is a term used to indicate a
change in the pull of gravity) is led by project
scientist David Noever of the Marshall Space Flight
Center. His goal is to eliminate every possible source
of error and quantify the exact nature of the gravity
modification phenomenon-if it exists.
Podkletnov conferred with the NASA researchers last
year to share his expertise. "We're convinced it's
worth exploring," says Noever, who says Podkletnov
turns out to be "a very genuine scientist."
Rumors flashed across the Internet that NASA has
already constructed a top- secret antigravity lab, but
the truth turns out to be less spectacular. "We
haven't reached the point where there's stuff floating
around the room," says Noever with a laugh. "This is
very much a work in progress."
Meanwhile, physicists are beginning to explore the
chances that there may be more than one way to beat
gravity. Nieto wonders whether antimatter, which has
the opposite properties of ordinary matter, might not
fall down when dropped.
Antimatter and matter destroy each other when they
meet, so nobody would want to drive an antimatter car.
Still, any sign of antigravity would have great
theoretical interest. To investigate, Nieto is
participating in a project called ATHENA.
Sometime early in the next century, physicists will
use two powerful particle accelerators to create
antiprotons and antielectrons, trap them, and bring
them together to form antihydrogen atoms. The
researchers will then cool the atoms of antihydrogen
and watch to see whether they plummet under the force
of gravity.
If the answer isn't in the atoms, perhaps it lies in
the depths of space. James Woodward of California
State University at Fullerton has been studying the
connection between gravity and inertia, the tendency
of objects to resist changes in acceleration. (Imagine
trying to push a car with the transmission in neutral.
Although the car rolls freely, it takes a lot of
effort to get it going.)
According to Einstein, inertia is related to the
gravitational field of the whole universe. Giving an
object a sudden kick should cause minuscule, temporary
fluctuations in its mass. Between his other studies,
Woodward says, he "fiddles around" with twisting
pendulums and electrical capacitors, searching for
these momentary variations.
He has found provocative indications that he can
modify the mass of an object, although he is daunted
by the many possible sources of error.
"The likelihood for success is not large, but the
practical payoffs are potentially staggering," he
says. For instance, he thinks it should be possible to
"steal" a little extra push from the distant parts of
the universe, and do it repeatedly. This process might
form the basis of a fantastic new kind of propulsion.
NASA is listening here too. Two years ago the agency
established a Breakthrough Propulsion program to
investigate mass modification and other speculative
schemes for space travel.
The best-documented antigravity effect comes not from
laboratory experiments but from studies of exploding
stars, or supernovas, in distant galaxies. Two teams
of astronomers are studying the brilliant flashes of
light from supernovas to see how quickly the
cumulative pull of the matter in the universe is
slowing the Big Bang. Early results have produced an
unexpected result: rather than slowing down, the
universe appears to be speeding up.
Many scientists take this finding as evidence of a
"cosmological constant," a latent energy hidden within
the fabric of space that counteracts the tug of
gravity.
In their wilder speculations, scientists like Hal
Puthoff of the Institute for Advanced Studies in
Austin, Texas, speculate that the energy that gives
rise to the cosmological constant is also responsible
for the phenomenon of inertia, linking the universal
antigravity back to potential gravity-fighting
techniques here at home. Although the theory is only
still only half-formed, "it's a very fruitful area of
study," Noever says.
If the experiments hold up, explanations can come
later. After all, Thomas Edison didn't need a quantum
model of radiation to make a lightbulb.
-------------------------------------------------------RELATED
WEB SITES:
"Breaking the Law of Gravity" by Charles Platt; Wired,
March 1998
Quantum Cavorite, a comprehensive and reasonably
balanced compendium of antigravity research
Alternate View columns by John G. Cramer
Unofficial Delta-G web site
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