[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 . . .

[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.

[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?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

They may have gotten far ahead of themselves with theory. Gravity stands apart from the other forces because while they are contained within ordinary dimensions, gravity may be multidimensional. This is a good rationale to explain why gravitons have never been detected.

That is, our ordinary dimensions are contained within space and time, or really space-time, because space and time appear to be functions of the same thing. If you alter space, you alter time, and vice versa.

But gravity seems to be transcend this, to some extent. It is the force, unlike all others, that *can* alter space and time. Strong and weak nuclear forces, and electromagnetism, can’t. Gravity can bend time and space.

If gravity is indeed transcendent, it would explain dark matter, the majority of the universal mass that isn’t seen. The reason it would not be seen is because it is not really there, except virtually, an appearance of mass created by extra-dimensional gravity. The mass exists, just not in ordinary dimensions.

With this explanation, what the scientists have accomplished with their experiment is to increase “our share” of the multidimensional gravitational field in our dimension. This also implies that by their actions, they are decreasing the gravitational field in another dimension.

It means that even though the field is stronger, there are still no gravitons to be found.

[pappyone]

ALCON: rotating up to 6 500 times a minute may cause a London moment

anymouse: get your priorities in order please? he he

[Kevmo]

bmflr