[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the link. I still don't know what to make of this.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I don't either, I googled him under "Franklin S. Felbar" and physics and got some interesting stuff...Princeton, USC, and some interesting science projects...and more when you google him under "Franklin Felbar" and Physics.

This is no kook.

Now how good his equations are is another thing. But if it pans out and the tests work like his stuff predicts...very, very cool!

[longshadow]

. I still don't know what to make of this.

Here's hint: notice the style of the writing. This reads more like somebody trying to sell you a new car with a fancy new transmission technology than it does a serious science discovery.

That alone pegs my bullshit detector.

Additionally, as you've already pointed out, particle accelerators routinely accelerate particles well past 0.577c, so this effect should have already been seen in the lab for years if it were true.

And lastly, didn't "Physicist" post something a while back that basically showed that if you could "counter" the effect of gravity, then in principle you can build a perpetual motion machine to do useful work for free, which is to say it violates energy conservation.

But that's just my layman's take; I'll way for the big guns to weigh in on this.