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ESA confirms Podkletnov's Anti-Gravity Effect (2006)

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Re: ESA confirms Podkletnov's Anti-Gravity Effect (2006)

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> The results were presented at a one-day conference at ESA's European Space and Technology Research Centre (ESTEC), in the Netherlands, 21 March 2006. It's not clear that this result was later published in a peer reviewed journal. The Wikipedia page about Eugene_Podkletnov ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov ) don't mention this work, and says that all this research field is very "controversial".

Is up on arxiv - http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603033 Also, wikipedia is alright as a starting point for looking at something, but I personally wouldn't give much weight to opinion in the articles.

I agree that you can't trust everything that Wikipedia says, but it's a good starting point. In these cases, I also read the talk and history page, to see if there is a lot of people reading and editing the page.

In the arxiv, this article is marked as "Submitted to Physica C". I went to "Physica C" and I can't find the article. I only found three previous theoretical articles of some of the authors. ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_met... )

Re: ESA confirms Podkletnov's Anti-Gravity Effect (2006)

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According to http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13020.1575 "Martin Tajmar retracts 2006 claims of gravitomagnetic version of frame-dragging as noise" in the publication at http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/24/12/125011 , Supercond. Sci. Technol. (2011) 24. Tajmar is one of the researchers in that 2006 ESA project.

It's interesting how several other research groups have done the same - gone "yup, replicated", then followed up with a retraction not long after.

There's also a paper floating around in which the phenomenon is explained, and the author posits you could do it with normal (strong) ferrite magnets.

If I were wearing my tin-foil-hat, today...

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