[spokeshave]

On average, Pares spends a couple of hours a day here almost every day of the week. To bend the fabric of space, he sits in front of a tray of instruments, twisting knobs and glancing every now and then into a Faraday cage, where a 3.5-pound weight hangs inside an electrically isolated case

It may be a Faraday shield to remove electric fields...

but not magnetic fields.

Ping me when he does it with a Maxwell shield.

[DannyTN]

"Ping me when he does it with a Maxwell shield."

[Boogieman]

I’m reading one of his papers, and he claims they generate a “tripole” electrical field with this device, and this is a new phenomenon I guess they say they have developed. So who knows what that cage can or cannot block from the device?

What is interesting is that the metal weight is not even in the original experiment. He just aimed the laser through the center of the field, and measured compression of the beam and a red shift in the frequency. So, it’s hard to imagine a stray magnetic field caused that!

[chaosagent]

According to another article, the weight is not magnetic.