NASA's little mission to turn our world upside down (NASA plans to repeal the laws of gravity)

HoustonChronicle.com ^ | March 29, 2002, 11:51PM | MARGARET WERTHEIM

[Quix]

Had a friendship some years ago with a Christian who was the daughter of one of Einstein's closer colleagues. She claimed his closest.

One day, when she was around 10-12 as I recall, he asked her if she wanted to see a UFO. A few days later, he took her out to the curb in front of their house and there hovering above it was a fairly standard UFO with plenty of anti-gravity stuff to spare. Have long suspected that Einstein did finish his unified field theory. She confirmed that he had.

[RadioAstronomer]

I've heard The Art Bell Institute of Technology and Engineering

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

[ivanhoe116]

Wasn't Mr. Peabody working on a similar device in the early 1960's but accedently changed one of the signs(+/-)in his calculations and ended up with the Way Back Machine?

...and he was completely successful. And that's why today we know that time flies like an arrow but...fruit flies like a banana....Sherman

[hoot2]

"But the team behind the NASA project say they are basing their efforts on real science, and NASA has paid
almost $600,000 to have the machine custom-built by Ohio-based Superconductive Components, Inc., SCI, a company that
specializes in high-tech ceramics and superconducting materials.
Says SCI Vice President James R. Gaines Jr.: "If it works, what a hoot!""

small change...how bout the $3 billion they "wasted" on mars exploration? twice? is that in a "swiss bank account"???
nasa is now a "u.n. welfare agency" for the math/science unbalanced "elitist"

[hoot2]

nasa funded "anti-gravity clothing"

[hoot2]

we're not "anti-gravity";... as long as it's diverse...

[hoot2]

your bid is way too low for a government program.
how are you gonna afford the kick-backs n campaign donations?
please re-submit your bid,(much higher)...
n hire me as n "anti-gravity elastism specialist" (rubberband stretcher)

[cb]

I remember following this about 5 years ago when it first was reported. An engineer type wrote an article based on plane old engineering mechanics. You know, mass times acceleration equals force (f=ma for you engineer types) He made a calculation based on an objective moving from a one "g" acceleration to something a lot less and back. The amount of energy involved was substantially MORE than the input to the device and thus violated the conservation of momentum law. Further he pointed out that the energy stored by such a device would be so large that when you turned it off, the object would have energies that would make it like a ballistic missile.

Like everyone, I was hoping there was truth to it. But you violate one law and suddenly you have to violate a lot of other laws for it to be feasible. Like in life, one little law breaking leads to a lot more; until its apparent that it won't work

[snopercod]

"NASA discovers airborne intercourse with a rotating disc"

[Valin]

How are things in black helicoppter land?

[snopercod]

Wouldn't it be great if NASA could power this contraption with cold fusion???

[G.Mason]

"If it works, what a hoot!" Says SCI Vice President James R. Gaines Jr.

What a coincidence. My 6 year old made this very statement last week when I was trying to fix his bicycle.

Any CEO out there looking for a VP?

[boris]

"I read this a couple of days ago and after thinking about it I don't see what the big deal is. It isn't >really< anti-gravity. All that is happening as far as I can tell, is that the mass of the object >appears< to be reduced. WHether it actually is or not is open to debate but for the sake of an argument lets say it is."

It is a big deal for these reasons:

1. The original Podkletnov experiment indicated a dimunition of gravity above the disc. Basic theory is that gravity, being a field without "curl", cannot be shielded against. Gravity has "divergence" only, which is why "Cavorite" is supposedly impossible. If the original Podkletnov experiment can be reproduced reliably, it will foment a revolution in physics.

2. Podkletnov is now promoting a second experiment--a new device--which projects a "gravity beam". According to Podkletnov, the beam is collimated, repulsive, and undiminished by distance (out to 1.5 kilometers) or interposed barriers. Accelerations of hundreds or thousands of "G"s are claimed for lightweight non-magnetic test masses such as cork, rubber, and so on. This is a pulsed phenomenon. Again, if proven true, this experiment would revolutionize physics.

3. Haisch, Rueda, and Puthoff (HRP) have published several papers which put forth their claim to have discovered the origin of inertia. This has been a thorny problem for many years. See "Mach's Principle". The basics--as I understand them--of the HRP derivations is that the motion of bound charged particles (like atoms) through the zero-point field causes a "drag" which falls out exactly as "F=ma". This is reminiscent of the Kaluza-Klein breakthrough, which demonstrated that Maxwell's Equations "fall out" of geometrical calculations iff space time has extra dimensions.

4. Several theorists--Ning Li and Giovanni Modanese for example--have offered differing theoretical arguments for why Podkletnov's effect could be real. The fact that, e.g., Li's theory was developed in complete ignorance of Podkletnov's result makes it very interesting.

--Boris

[Tennessee_Bob]

Why would alien craft display such lights?

It's obvious. They're working with Alcoa to increase sales....

[ex-Texan]

Say what you will ....

I have the stealth blimp. Bye.

[medved]

In such case the device described in the article is no big deal.

It might still be a big deal. Some forms of energy are much cheaper than others. Using the energy of the tides to launch space vessels of any desired size or weight would be a big deal.

[Tennessee_Bob]

LOL! How can you be sure you have the blimp, if it's invisible?

Actually, I have seen the articles about the blimp, amongst other things. Was pretty interesting.