Why did this obscure piece find its way to a popular science news article? Because Gershteyn called a UPI reporter. Note that this is not an MIT release.
Well, it *is* interesting. Gravity is a sort of pet peeve of mine: it keeps us from getting into space in any meaningful way. Anything that might help open a door to overcoming or manipulating it to get us off the planet is very welcome to me.
At any rate, I imagine that a bevy of scientific experiments to test this is in the offing. It'll sink or swim the same way cold fusion did and in accordance with the methods of the scientific community.
I just hope some practical applications can someday be derived from this at some point...maybe through change in other physical theories dependant on G.
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