"Beam Me Up Scotty" Anti-gravity: Fact or Fiction?

Dearborn Highschool press release ^ | Russ Gibb

[ASA Vet]

"Beam Me Up Scotty" Anti-gravity: Fact or Fiction?

Dearborn High video/computer students are the first high school
students in the world to build an "antigravity???" machine for
2002-2003 Metro-Detroit Science Fair.

Yes, you can say impossible. Yes, you can say it defies Newton's
3rd law of gravity. Yes, you can say it's done with smoke and
mirrors. Nevertheless three teenage Dearborn High students,
Luke Duncan, 16, Ethan Rein, 17, and Jim Bergren, 16, built and flew
an "antigravity???" aircraft last Sunday in the school video/computer studio.

It has no fans, no jets, and no engines. It makes no sound, and
yet it flies. In fact the first time that the students flew the
craft it went up so fast and high that in future flights the
craft had to be tethered or it just kept going up and up.
The only power that is supplied to the beam ship is a thin electrical
conducting wire that connects to the fuselage of the
balsa wood and aluminum foil craft.

At first the students thought that it was working on a theory
called the ion wind, whereby electrons fly through the air
displacing air molecules thereby creating a small wind effect.
Yet recently a similar craft was built at Purdue University and
put in a vacuum chamber but it still flew. Oops, there goes
another theory.

The students have been working via phone and internet with
physicists and inventors all over the world to help them with
their project including the Russian physicist Dr. Podkletnov who
now lives in Finnland, The French Inventor Jean-Louis Naudin,
American inventor Russell Anderson, President of Applied Electrogravitics,
American Antigravity's Tim Ventura, their teacher Mr. Russ Gibb,
Michigan Technology Teacher of the Year 2000,
as well as many other people who have been building and working on lifters for years.
Please note, that many respected investigators of the antigravity phenomenon dispute that
beamship/lifter technology is an antigravity phenomen and say outright that it is not antigravity.
Students Luke, Jim, and Ethan say
"We don't know for sure what causes the craft to fly
and are simply investigated the different theories."

Interestingly, this year is the 100-year anniversary of the
Wright brothers first flight and also in the early 1900s, Nikola
Tesla, the electrical genius, and physicist George S. Piggot
were doing experiments on anti-gravity.

If you would like to see the craft take off and fly visit www.wdhsvideo.org

[ASA Vet]

Here's a Detroit News article from Dec 2, 2003 reporting on the story.

click here

[ASA Vet]

Science? ping

[Brett66]

It worked in a vacuum?!! Very interesting. That's been a key test for these lifters.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[ASA Vet]

The Prudue experiment worked in vacuum, these kids aren't claiming theirs did.

[Brett66]

Jean-Louis Naudin website:

JLN Labs

Website can be slow if it gets overloaded.

[alfa6]

What say ye, kind Sir.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[thisiskubrick]

Obviously another eminent French scientist, a contemporary of Monsiuer Rael.

[fromnovascotia]

H'mm. A while ago I was reading that quite a lot of money is spent studying this by various governments.

Here are the usual WWII stories about foo fighters.

[Junior]

This has been posted before. And, it ain't gotten any less farfetched in that time.

[ASA Vet]

I did a search and didn't find a previous posting.

I'll wait to see what our "smarter than I folks" say before I join you in declaring it "farfetched."

[RandomUserName]

I've looked into these "lifters" before, and I'm convinced they are actually doing something, and that something is not well understood, by anybody (at least that I've found). The catch seems to be that they use a significant amount of electricity to lift a very light vehicle. If this can be scaled way up, and can be made to lift its own power source, I will be very impressed. Until then, I will continue to regard it is a (very cool, in a geeky sort of way) useless gadget.

[Vinnie]

This is nothing new. I saw David Blaine lift himself off the ground last year. He obviously has miniaturized the device to fit in his sneakers. g

(I really enjoy seeing David's 'tricks'.)

[Jimbaugh]

Nice Post. This is interesting research.

[ASA Vet]

There was no mention of power used to make it fly.
The only reference was to a "thin conductive" wire.
They'll have to figure out why it works before it can be scaled up,
unless something is found that works better just using the SWAG method.

[ASA Vet]

Did you see him do it in person, or on the TV?
Yes, he is an amazing illusionist.

[IronJack]

There is no "Newton's Third Law of Gravity."

[ASA Vet]

There is no "Newton's Third Law of Gravity."

Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion and a theory of gravity.

Isaac Newton Gravity Theory:
Masses experience an attractive force between them,
a force which acts at a distance, resulting in their acceleration toward each other.
The strength of that force depends on the size of the masses and
is inversely proportional to square of the distance between them.

[Vinnie]

I saw him on Tv.

You can learn to do that trick in about 1 minute. It is the stupidest but most effective trick

I'm all ears/eyes.