Posted on 03/25/2006 11:13:27 AM PST by PatrickHenry
The current problem with taxes being spent on research is that the research will get done by Asian grad students
And when the research is complete, the ideas on what to do with the results will go back to Asia with them
Did they? I could have sworn they took their inspiration from Tampere, Finland!
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This looks like it could be a Nobel Prize in the making, if the results turn out to be valid.
Perhaps -- but I don't think these guys would be the claimants!
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Somehow, it reminds me of this: The Podkletnov Gravitational-Shield. That gives me pause.
That was my first thought too.
What a strange coincidence that they'd come up with what sounds pretty much like an exact duplcate of Podkletnov's work -- except that Podkletnov had the jump on them by ten years!
Didn't I read something about 4 or 5 years ago about NASA working with his theories?
I have not kept up on any of this, and am by no means qualified to weigh in on the merits of Podkletnov's claims, however, I don't think it takes a rocket scientist (or "advanced propulsion theoretician") to see the striking similarities between the two experiments (i.e., rotating superconductors acting as gravity modifiers).
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/gsp/Experimental_Detection.pdf
Lots more details.
Ahah! Page 19 & 20 (the very end of a long list of references):
21Podkletnov, E., and Nieminen, R., A Possibility of Gravitational Force Shielding by Bulk YBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductor. Physica C 203, 441-444 (1992). 2021Podkletnov, E., and Nieminen, R., A Possibility of Gravitational Force Shielding by Bulk YBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductor. Physica C 203, 441-444 (1992).22Podkletnov, E., Weak Gravitational Shielding Properties of Composite Bulk YBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductor Below 70 K under EM Field. cond-mat/9701074. 22Podkletnov, E., Weak Gravitational Shielding Properties of Composite Bulk YBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductor Below 70 K under EM Field. cond-mat/9701074.
Which means that they are being honest.
They've found something cool that they don't fully understand, and they are throwing it out there to the physics community, via the peer-review process, in the hopes that others can reproduce the experiments and/or make sense out of it.
The paper addresses the "gavitational shield" -- the effect discussed in the paper in an entirely different way. Where Podkletnov said that a spinning superconductor reduces the gravitational field above it, this effect is due to a superconducting ring undergoing angular acceleration. The new force acts in the same direction as the acceleration - tangentially to the edge superconducting ring rather than above its axis of rotation.
It's in binary.
This looks like fun.
Maybe this research will give somebody an idea.
From your link:
For example, maybe you get a warm feeling when you contemplate high-temperature superconductors, with critical temperatures around 100 K? Hah! The protons in the center of neutron stars are believed to become superconducting at 100 million K, so these are the real high-T_c champs of the universe.
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