First real challenge to General Relativity?, (and not from Gravity Probe-B) |
First real challenge to General Relativity?, (and not from Gravity Probe-B) |
Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Mar 23 2006, 09:50 PM
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...in the form of what may be an accidentally discovered artificial gravity generator, with possible practical applications!:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html If this effect is real, it's fully 1/10,000 G -- which is not to be sneezed at, and might conceivably lead us to Bigger Things. |
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Mar 23 2006, 10:29 PM
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Sorry about the misspelling. Their actual passage on him is as follows:
"The reported results are very different from previous claims in the literature from Podkletnov claiming gravitational shielding effects above rotating superconductors. As we have not observed any change in the vertical sensors (± 5 μg) above any superconductors during their phase transition and during rotation, our results even put new limits on any possible shielding effects (effect must be < 0.0005% compared to claims of up to 2% of weight change for samples above a rotating superconductor)." (pg. 16-17) These guys are two bigwigs in the ESA and GmbH, and they were doing further research into aspects of an apparent phenomenon already observed by another team. It will, at any rate, be interesting to see if this develops into anything. |
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Mar 23 2006, 10:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Very interesting, indeed. Though I have a hard time swallowing concepts like gravitomagnetic and gravitoelectric fields...
QUOTE This gravitomagnetic London moment is equivalent to a frame-dragging or Lense-Thirring field and is of great interest since gravitational effects of measurable magnitudes could be produced in a laboratory environment Are we finally on the verge of figuring out this thing called gravity? Time will tell. -------------------- |
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