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

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[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.