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 25 2006, 10:18 PM
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Jeffrey Bell, ever the party-pooper, sends me the following E-mail:
"These gentlemen have previously published theoretical papers on this effect in three journals: "INDIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS JOURNAL OF THEORETICS (sic) PHYSICA C "These are all fringe physics journals. PHYSICA C published Polednikov's now-discredited gravity screening work. I'll wait for this 'discovery' to appear in PHYSICS REVIEW, like most serious work in this field." |
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Mar 26 2006, 01:26 AM
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Jeffrey Bell, ever the party-pooper, sends me the following E-mail: "These gentlemen have previously published theoretical papers on this effect in three journals: "INDIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS JOURNAL OF THEORETICS (sic) PHYSICA C "These are all fringe physics journals. PHYSICA C published Polednikov's now-discredited gravity screening work. I'll wait for this 'discovery' to appear in PHYSICS REVIEW, like most serious work in this field." Thanks for the heads up. Fortunately, this will not be a difficult experimental setup to duplicate. (I would try to do it myself, if they would let me back in the NMR room ) Let's hope this does not argue down to "But you have to use nickel from the slobovia mine excavated between 1963 and 1967!...". One Stanley Pons is enough. If there is a red flag in the data already presented, it is the 30 magnitude number - something that out-of-wack should have surfaced before. This is one of the weaknesses of being on the fringe - it is easy to read more credibity into a goofy paper than it is for skeptics with more faith in the system...odd paradox. |
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