Re: contra grav anyone?

 From the side bar:
		 Even if Chiao's contraption works, it wouldn't allow
the
		 generation of antigravity fields, as Russian materials
		 scientist Eugene Podkletnov, then at Tampere
		 University of Technology in Finland, controversially
		 claimed to have observed in 1992 (see link ).
Antigravity
		 requires canceling out a powerful, static
gravitoelectric
		 field, yet superconductors have no effect on such
fields

This isn't anti-gravity or contragravity, but the production of gravity
waves.

Note also, this is not necessarily the same gravity a la Newton.  This
is 
the generation of gravito-magnetic waves...  The gravity generated by a 
moving mass...	Einstein's backyard so to speak.  What we would consider

normal gravity is gravito-electric, or the gravity of stationary 
mass...  (for all practical purposes the earth is stationary to us)

Podkletnov was claiming the deflection of gravito-electric gravity... 
And 
has been "debunked" as some people are found of putting it.

To bring this on topic, this could be, IMHO one of the first steps in 
creating grav technology...  Grav plates, drives, etc.	For a near time 
deal, it might be used instead of a spinning rec area for astronauts to 
exercise in.

Rand.

At 06:55 PM 6/12/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>Tomb wrote:
>
> >
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00032353-36AB-1CDC-B4A8809EC5
> > 88EEDF&catID=2
> >
> > for the full paper
> >
> > http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0204012
>
>A quick perusal of the Scientific American article gives the impression
that
>the effect would have very profound consequences, if it was true, but
there
>is no likelyhood of it being verified.