Towards a New Test of General Relativity? (Generating Gravity in the Lab)

European Space Agency ^ | 23 March 2006

[anymouse]

Interesting possibilities.

Before anyone else posts the obvious response; yes, it is a heavy subject. ;)

[cripplecreek]

Nah, these threads send me off on tangents in my thinking.

[Mariner]

It’s has me wonderin’ what the effect would have on other predicted behaviors in space-time.

[OneWingedShark]

Artificial Gravity.

Very interesting.

[theFIRMbss]

Fancy new bridges,
fancy new bras and, oh yeah,
that space travel thing . . .

[cripplecreek]

I start wondering about propulsion possibilities.

[parsifal]

How about a rethinking of the Big Bang?

parsy, who read one guy who said electromagnetic fields and plasma was what was going on.

[Harold Shea]

Cities In Flight...

Thinking,send San Franciso out first

[aruanan]

Although just 100 millionths of the acceleration due to the Earth’s gravitational field, the measured field is a surprising one hundred million trillion times larger than Einstein’s General Relativity predicts.

At least it wasn't something like 70% larger than predicted.

[Osnome]

Like SPASMOS Carl Sagan would say: Billions and billions.

Yeah yeah, magnetized gravitation— antigravity - - - bad science fiction

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Nikola! You were born too soon! You’d be havin’ a blast right now!

[lafroste]

Hate to say it, read the book. See my tagline.

[Star Traveler]

You said — Interesting possibilities.

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Yes, indeed. I can envision the first houses built with artificial gravity and all the furniture is on the ceiling... LOL...

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[r9etb]

Hm.... interesting stuff, but the wording makes it seem like the results may be a lot less definitive than the article itself would lead us to believe.

Stuff like, "They have discovered that this anomaly could be explained by..." and "...appears to be produced by gravitomagnetism."

That sort of vagueness is at odds with their dramatic conclusion: "It demonstrates that a superconductive gyroscope is capable of generating a powerful gravitomagnetic field, and is therefore the gravitational counterpart of the magnetic coil."

Now, they might be right ... but I think I'll wait for confirmation.

[admiral52]

Blish - one of my favorites. Anti-gravity is next!

[cripplecreek]

I know what you’re saying but I enjoy this stuff just for the theoretical thinking it sends me off on.

[TheDon]

"This experiment is the gravitational analogue of Faraday's electromagnetic induction experiment in 1831

Or perhaps the analogue of cold fusion in 1989.

[Rodebrecht]

Bah! I’ll tell you what you can do with your “general relativity”! Aristotle’s physics works for me.

[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

You thinking what I’m thinking?