NASA's Controversial Gravity Shield Experiment Fails to Produce

space.com ^ | 10 Oct 01 | Jack Lucentini

[VadeRetro]

Graham Bell, sponsor of Michelson, was interested in testing the new Maxwell equations. The non-result forced a modification. But this case is different in that there is no Maxwell putting forth a new set of equations. This is a stab in the dark.

Michelson's negative result was unexpected, unintuitive, and (at that time) unexplainable. The negative result in the gravity shield experiment is what almost anyone who'd heard of the idea did expect.

[Diogenesis]

Dr. Miles is from China Lake (USN, CA), Dr Szpak is from San Diego (USN, CA)
Dr. Storms is from Los Alamos. There have been confirmations of correlated
helium production at other national labs.

Try using Science Citations for more recent publications of which there are many.

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References
References
FAQ, more refs

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An apology is owed to the researchers of this field
whose existence will minimize how much the US must rely on oil.

[longshadow]

I myself tried to defy the law of gravity the other day, using a bananna-peal device. Alas, just as I had slipped the bonds of gravity, I fell on my tush. But this negative result will not discourage me.

What we need is a legislative, not scientific, approach to the problem. An illustrative story, the source of which excapes me, follows:

Once upon a time, in a Kingdom far-far-away (or something like that) there was a King who felt the pain of his people having to carry the burdens of themselves and their possessions about. He asked his science adviser: "Why do the people suffer so?" The adviser replied: "It is due to the Law of Gravity, Your Immenseness."

And so the King was inspired to obtain the consent of the his parliament for a Proclamation to Repeal the Law of Gravity. And having obtained said consent, the King declared a great Holiday throughout his Kingdom, on which he would sign the Proclamation into law, repealing the Law of Gravity, and forever more relieving the burden of his subjects from having to bear the weight of objects or their bodies. And all the loyal subjects gathered around the Royal Castle as the King prepared to sign the proclamation into law. As the Royal Clock chimed high noon, the King affixed his signature to the proclamation, and a shout of joy went up from the throng.....

..... whereupon everyone and everything not attached firmly to the earth was instantly flung off into space, including the King, his subjects, cows, horses, and even the air, for in his zeal to alleviate the burdens of his people, the King had overlooked the necessity of Repealing the Law of Inertia along with the Law of Gravity.

I fully expect NASA's experiments to be just about as successful as a legislative approach would be to the anti-gravity problem.

[Diogenesis]

I checked your resume. You are smart enough that you

should have checked this out yourself, rather than rely on

those who apparently dont know anything about it.

[very_right_in_kc]

By definition, if an experiment in performed accurately, the result is not 'positive' or 'negative'. It is The Result.

That's not to say The Result may not match The Expected Result - they may very well be at odds with one-another. But The Result is still just The Result.

Hence, EVERY experiment is worthwhile as long as the outcome is not known q.e.d.

Don't be baggin on our boys at NASA - they've advanced the world more with their failures than virtually all the Democrats have... ;)

[John Jamieson]

I thought the Dean Drive solved this problem back in the late 50's. Guess this is the modern electronic version. You're Right more than you're wrong.

[Arkie2]

Whoopee! An anti gravity spaceship powered by cold fusion!

[winner45]

NASA does and/or helps fund plenty of basic research in many different fields. Some are more pragmatic than others. The point here is to develop the mesuring devices needed for super conductivity/unified field theory work. There is a long way to go here, but if it proves useful in the end, we all profit. Major economic expansions are fueled by cultural wide industrial paradigmn shifts. To find technologies that will broadly affect our culture, much research, some in seemingly silly areas, needs be done. The NASA technology transfer to industry program provides for quick trun around application of new technologies for American business thus creating a test bed for potential new paradigmn technologies.

[RightWhale]

Don't be baggin on our boys at NASA

We're ragging on the institute not the personnel. It's nearly criminal to keep all that excellent ability and talent chained to a dead-end space station support mission. Exciting things could be happening if they could be let off their leash. Progress there has been; progress is unavoidable with such a level of expertise. But the progress there should have been in the past 30 years is nowhere in evidence. Where is the moon base? Where is the Mars base? Where is the interplanetary shuttle? Should have all that up and running by now.

[Diogenesis]

I apologize for mentioning a rock, but if I had used the ostrich metaphor
the intellectual half of PETA might have gotten upset.

[RightWhale]

if it proves useful in the end, we all profit

Then triple NASA's budget; build the moon base, go to Mars and build the Mars orbiting base. With that kind of career beacon you will get more young people going for technical degrees; you will get more science taught in school. Economic effects won't be trickledown, they will be a deluge. It will make the medieval terrorists all the more envious, maybe envious enough to give up their quixotic missions and join civilization.

[spunkets]

Your newest paper listed is from '96. To date none of the work you've listed has been corroborated. I've never seen anything that indicates cold fusion is a real phenomenon, or a possibility. If it was I'd have seen it. I make devices to measure calorimetric, and electrical energy balance in electrochemical cells.

[NativeSon]

Human spacecraft. As opposed to the Vorlons, I suppose.

B5 fan?

[PatrickHenry]

After a lifetime of work, my calculations reveal that a fat person suffers from gravity more than a thin person. The conclusion is obvious. Gravity isn't the problem; it's weight! If we all go on a diet, we can conquer gravity! I gladly donate the royalties from my discovery to the Clinton defense fund.

[Physicist]

Unlike the electromagnetic force, which has positive and negative charges so there is a possibility of shielding one sign of charge with the other, gravity is caused by mass-energy density which is always positive, according to Einstein's theory. So by everything we know as it applies to ordinary matter, including superconductors, gravity can't be shielded.

Masterful. I couldn't have said it better myself. Welcome to FreeRepublic!

Bedrosian...that name sounds familiar. Sci.physics, perhaps?

[Physicist]

It was at least the second time the agency has tried but failed to replicate Podkletnov’s results.

I hate to say I told you so, but...no, scratch that. I have no problem with saying I told you so. I told you so!

[NativeSon]

Sorry to tell you, but Cold Fusion is an illusion.

Yep, fusion in a bottle ain't be happenin'.

Do you remember the claim- I think by a south eatern university- that they achieved "Cold Fusion"? It made the covers of "science" publications before the frenzy to reproduce the results...

[TomB]

I noticed the references you gave are fairly old, the last one is from 1995. Have there been any recent studies done that show more energy return?