tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19610769370925746522024-03-06T03:46:32.596+01:00EuropeanAntigravityNews and opinion on developments in breakthrough propulsion physics from a European perspective.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-32682760610577225872023-11-11T19:08:00.001+01:002023-11-11T19:08:42.202+01:00The upcoming IVO launch and the Lafforgue thruster<p> <a href="https://ivolimited.us">IVO</a> are apparently (finally!) launching their test system in a few
hours, following several delays. If Andrew Aurigema, the <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US11511891B2/en">coinventor</a>, with
Charles Buhler, of a system which he claims works on the same principle as the IVO
device, is correct, the IVO system
should work and in doing so, validate his own approach (he claims to
have tested in vacuum of 10e⁻6 Torr and achieved ~62% thrust/weight
ratio thus far). Both devices seeem to be based on exploiting the
phenomenon of electrostatic pressure between asymmetric electrodes,
which is subtly different from the "Biefeld-Brown" effect (that is to
say, nothing to do with ion wind or Coulomb forces) but to my mind, it
could be what Brown saw (if indeed he did!) if/when his devices moved in
vacuum. When I first heard the term "asymmetric electrostatic
pressure", I realised that these devices were essentially
modern versions of a "Lafforgue thruster", as described in his 1991
French <a href="https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=D&date=19910301&DB=&locale=en_EP&CC=FR&NR=2651388A1&KC=A1&ND=4#">patent</a> (autotranslation available at the site). </p><p>Jean-Louis Naudin did <a href="http://jnaudin.free.fr/lfpt/index.html">several experiments</a>
based on this patent about 20 years ago which seem to indicate the presence of an uncompensated
unidirectional force (regardless of polarity) entirely based in
mainstream physics (see for example <a href="http://physicspages.com/pdf/Electrodynamics/Electrostatic%20pressure.pdf">this description</a>). I think the conventional explanation is that the reactive force
causes stress (and eventual breakdown) of the dielectric, but this seems
to be an untested assumption. Another possibility is that it is somehow
"pushing against" spacetime itself. The force generated is much smaller
than the Coulomb forces, which might explain why it has been largely
overlooked for propulsion purposes until recently.
Andrew Aurigema is apparently quite open to visitors to his Florida lab,
but does insist on an NDA.</p>Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-27324066433523435632016-03-27T15:23:00.002+01:002016-03-27T15:23:54.193+01:00Ways to view the Horizon documentaryFor those able to access the BBC iPlayer, the programme can be viewed <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0752f85/horizon-20152016-2-project-greenglow-the-quest-for-gravity-control" target="_blank">here</a> for the next 26 days. Otherwise, it can be viewed as a stream <a href="http://idowatch.net/npnt7ur2b1ml.html" target="_blank">here</a> or downloaded as a torrent from <a href="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0c3b863e927f2ac67a94e0160e5630680be98a6a&dn=BBC+Horizon+2016+Project+Greenglow+The+Quest+for+Gravity+Control&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969" target="_blank">this</a> magnet link (high quality, 1.9 Gb) or <a href="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a923a613189ae75b32abc662b1ec7306a4eca4c5&dn=BBC+Horizon+Project+Greenglow+The+Quest+for+Gravity+Control+x265&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969" target="_blank">here</a> (low quality, 407 Mb).Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-50275326339417771192016-03-12T23:51:00.001+01:002016-03-13T23:44:51.088+01:00BBC Horizon detailsJust a quick note to inform you that Project Greenglow will feature on the BBC science documentary series "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0752f85" target="_blank">Horizon</a>" on BBC2 on March 23rd 2016 at 8pm GMT.<br />
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Note that if you are not in the UK you may be able to watch it via the BBC <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer" target="_blank">iPlayer</a> by means of a proxy service such as the <a href="https://hola.org/" target="_blank">Hola</a> browser plugin or via <a href="https://www.filmon.com/tv/bbc-two" target="_blank">FilmOn</a>.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-30065526835951176512016-01-17T18:56:00.001+01:002016-01-17T19:00:13.415+01:00The G-Files, Part 2A few more items for your edification this week:<br />
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<li>a <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLQkhGVXdYU3FuMTg">recording</a> of the BBC radio programme "Falling Up" from December 2004, featuring contributions from Prof. John Allen of Greenglow, as well as Nick Cook, Paul Horwood, John Searl and Martin Tajmar. Apologies for the poor quality, but storage space was at a premium back then...</li>
<li>the 1952 <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLRXhYVGV5Y29RNWs">Project Winterhaven</a> proposal by Thomas Townsend Brown.</li>
<li>the 1981 paper "<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLcnZfMWxjTHZnajA">Antigravity with Present Technology</a>" by F. E. Alzofon.</li>
<li>the 1969 book "<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLWDczRTRvYXJkbmc">New Horizons in Electric, Magnetic and Gravitational Field Theory</a>" by W. J. Hooper.</li>
<li>the 1978 revision of the book "<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLMFd2aUlpQWE0ZUk">The Sea of Energy</a>" by T. Henry Moray.</li>
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Happy reading!</div>
Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-37934520082308744742015-12-29T18:43:00.000+01:002016-01-02T15:44:58.142+01:00The G-Files: Part 1 of a series...Given the recent revival of interest in Project Greenglow following the recent publication of a <a href="http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=2900">memoir</a> by the project head Dr Ron Evans, as well as the possibility of a BBC "Horizon" documentary on the subject in 2016, I decided to make available my personal collection of papers and other relevant information, relating both directly and indirectly to Greenglow. <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLMHNoYlBGWW5vMHM&usp=sharing">Here</a> are some introductory presentations and papers to get you started - more will follow in the coming weeks and months. Here's a quick summary of the documents:<br />
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLcDRtR0tGOW5seE0">The report of the 1990 BAe-University Round Table on Gravitational Research</a> - This is referred to in Dr Evans' book, and illustrates the interests of university researchers prior to Project Greenglow.</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLNXFaUkI1U2xlMFU">"Quest for a novel force: a possible revolution in aerospace"</a>, a 2003 paper by Prof. John E. Allen, an advisor to Project Greenglow. This paper is also referred to in Dr Evans' book.</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLYTZqQTVDVS1CTkU">"Goals & Metrics for Project Greenglow"</a>, a 2001 report by Prof. Colin McInnes and Spencer Ziegler of Glasgow University, commissioned by the Project. It also describes ongoing activities at other companies and space agencies around the world.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLUVpwNHpuMjJKcXM">Greenglow Graduate Lecture</a>, a presentation given to new graduates joining BAE Systems as part of their company induction programme. A good "math-light" introduction.</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLZ0lYRW5xNTg3a0U">Greenglow History</a>, a short history of the Project written by Dr Evans just prior to his retirement in 2005.</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLZThJTy15TUdPVnM">"Electric Propulsion Study"</a> by Dennis L. Cravens, the 1990 (final) report for the USAF. Also available directly from <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA227121">DTIC</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLN2YxcHgxT3NVTEE">"21st Century Propulsion Concept"</a> by R. L. Talley, the 1991 (final) report for Veritay Technology. Also available directly from <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA237853">DTIC</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLMGdZaUhLYzl3THM">"Guidelines to Antigravity"</a> by Robert L. Forward, a seminal 1963 paper also referenced in Dr Evans' book.</li>
<li>An <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLWVdBMWVGU1d2UHM">overview</a> I wrote for "Fortean Times" magazine in 2002, illustrating the state of research activities at the time, with particular attention to what was going on on the Internet.</li>
<li>An <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Ez9NDUxpYLdGk2Ym5XVUs5UEk">account</a> of the activities of Dr Evgeny Podketnov, including my meeting with him in 2000.</li>
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Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-32598566289601429032010-02-14T18:11:00.002+01:002010-02-14T18:17:59.862+01:00Best current propulsion blogThis blog was set up in response to the decline of the AmericanAntigravity <a href="http://www.americanantigravity.com/">site</a>, and before the <a href="http://www.tauzero.aero/">Tau Zero Foundation</a> had got underway. Now that <a href="http://www.centauri-dreams.org/">Centauri Dreams</a> has rebranded itself the news site for Tau Zero, I would refer all those interested to that site for the latest news and information, partly because they have more time to devote to it and with a view to reducing the huge number of sites dedicated to the subject, which only seems to increase confusion and the propagation of errors.<span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class=" on down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Link" class="gl_link" border="0" /></span></span>Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-42977929335599187972008-03-01T23:16:00.002+01:002008-03-01T23:20:25.210+01:00More Gravity Anomalies?Following on from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly">Pioneer Anomaly</a>, there now appear to be <a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080229-spacecraft-anomaly.html">several other spacecraft</a> undergoing anomalous accelerations.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-41566638736106547922007-09-11T20:53:00.000+01:002007-09-11T21:33:10.415+01:00Warp Drive Symposium - LondonIf you can make it, this <a href="http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/196/id/1414/l/en-gb">symposium</a> at the British Interplanetary Society in November looks interesting. Not many confirmed speakers as yet, though. For those of you unable to make it, the following links to work by the known speakers may be of interest:<br /><br />Remo Garattini:<br /><a href="http://www.pv.infn.it/~frontier/2003/talks/Posters/Garattini.pdf">Spacetime Foam and Vacuum Energy</a> [PDF]<br /><a href="http://europa.ieec.fcr.es/english/recerca/ftc/qfext05/talks/Garattini.ppt">The Cosmological Constant as an Eigenvalue of a Sturm-Liouville problem and its renormalization</a> [PPT]<br /><br />Claudio Maccone:<br /><a href="http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0403/0403064.pdf">Levi-Civita Effect in the polarizable vacuum (PV) representation of general relativity</a> [PDF]<br /><br />Unfortunately I couldn't find any references to the work of Jeremy Gardiner. If you know of any, let me know & I'll add it to the list!Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-24328041367733707092007-09-08T23:42:00.000+01:002007-09-08T23:56:08.688+01:00Reversing the Casimir EffectNews on <a href="http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/Title,14834,en.html">this development</a> at St Andrews University, using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial">metamaterials</a> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial#Negative_refractive_index">negative refractive indices</a>, first appeared last month, but there's now also a quite entertaining <a href="http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ulf/levitation.html">page</a> explaining the principles for a general readership.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-11094603943997143132007-09-08T23:38:00.000+01:002007-09-08T23:42:29.268+01:00Useful Amounts of Photon Propulsion?Just noticed <a href="http://www.baeinstitute.com/pr1.html">this</a>, apparently the first photon propulsion system to produce practical, useful amounts of force.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-78206570242663242542007-04-04T22:36:00.000+01:002007-04-04T23:02:20.765+01:00Hiddink's One Terminal CapacitorSome time ago I was made aware of an overlooked <a href="http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US4095162&F=0&QPN=US4095162">invention</a> from the 1970s, seemingly the result of a thought experiment, perhaps one of Faraday's himself, concerning the effects of turning a normal 2-terminal capacitor into a single terminal version. A description of the circumstances of the invention and its consequences in the words of the inventor (Joseph Hiddink) may be found <a href="http://www.keelynet.com/interact/archive/00000405.htm">here</a>. It seems to have the potential (pun intended) for several applications - from the <a href="http://v3.espacenet.com/textdes?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US4095162&F=0&QPN=US4095162">patent description</a>:<br /><blockquote><br />Another object of the invention is to provide the means for producing high potentials which can be positive or negative in nature and which are adapted for use in the study of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions.<br /><br />Still a further object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved means for constuction and operation of a high power particle generator.<br /><br />Another object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved device for generating potentials of either positive or negative nature of such magnitudes so as to attract, bend or repulse radiation.<br /><br />Still another object of the invention is to provide novel and improved construction of a device for generation of potentials of either positive or negative nature, <span style="font-weight:bold;">to attract or repulse mass</span>.<br /><br />A further object of the present invention is to provide novel and improved means and its construction for making an inexpensive, yet effective Intense Neutron Generator with possibility for slow to fast neutron emission.</blockquote><br /><br />It now remains for someone with sufficiently deep pockets and well-shielded facilities to replicate it, as the inventor is now quite old and unable to fund further experiments himself.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-44655949037590017122007-03-06T22:59:00.000+01:002007-03-06T23:18:14.717+01:00Tau Zero - the last, best hope for BPP?I noticed recently that following the lapse of funding for projects like NASA's <a href="http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/index.html">Breakthrough Propulsion Physics</a> programme and BAE Systems' <a href="http://www.greenglow.co.uk/">Greenglow</a>, the former NASA BPP head <a href="http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/MillisBio.html">Marc Millis</a> has begun the <a href="http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?cat=23">Tau Zero Foundation</a> in his spare time. While it has yet to have its own independent web presence, I have high hopes for it as it encompasses a wide range of possible propulsion techniques, and like the prior NASA effort, aims to attempt a serious and sceptical (though this has unfortunate <a href="http://www.csicop.org/">CSICOP</a>-like kneejerk-debunking connotations these days; maybe <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/zetetic">zetetic</a> would be a better term) approach.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-23554919446496363732007-02-22T23:51:00.000+01:002007-02-26T22:00:47.955+01:00Much Ado About BismuthTime and again, in the course of my researches on the interweb and elsewhere, the element bismuth crops up in connection with one aspect or another of antigravity. Bismuth is an unusual metal, being a poor conductor (verging on a semiconductor), the most diamagnetic, having the highest Hall effect and second-lowest thermal conductivity. In addition, its liquid phase is denser than its solid phase. <br /><br />Significantly, it is also immediately above (and, we could reasonably infer, possesses similar properties to) Element 115 (a.k.a. Ununpentium, a.k.a. Eka-Bismuth) in the periodic table. Element 115 may have some very stable isotopes, being smack in the middle of the theoretical nucleonic "island of stability", and has of course also featured in the Area 51 tales of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar">Bob Lazar</a>, apparently playing a role in <a href="http://users.skynet.be/bob.lazar/www.boblazar.com/closed/gravity.html">gravity control</a>.<br /><br />If bismuth <span style="font-weight:bold;">is</span> similar to element 115, then it could lend more credence to the <a href="http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-049X%281923%2962%3A3%3C75%3ADOAKTO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O&size=LARGE">gravity studies</a> of Charles F. Brush and the <a href="http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US3626605&F=0">patents</a> of Henry Wallace, both of which involve the use of bismuth. It has even been investigated by <a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/imgg/propulsion/ba_report.pdf">respectable</a> university departments (sponsored by <a href="http://www.greenglow.co.uk">Project Greenglow</a>, as it happens).<br /><br />In the case of the Wallace patents, bismuth is rotated in a magnetic field, in a manner <a href="http://amasci.com/weird/wallc/wallct.txt">reminiscent</a> of Podkletnov's experiments with superconductors. <br /><br />To quote from the excellent <a href="http://www.padrak.com/ine/RS_REFS.html">Electrogravitics Reference List</a> of Robert Stirniman:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">Dr. Charles Brush, in a series of reports in the PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY around 1922 found, in some well-thought-out experiments, that weight was not only proportional to mass, but was affected by the atomic structure of the substances. For example, he found that for a given unit of <br />mass and shape, BISMUTH falls faster than zinc or aluminum.</span></blockquote><br />Bismuth is also a major constituent of "<a href="http://www.keelynet.com/rodbism.htm">Art's Parts</a>", mysterious fragments of unknown origin presented to radio host Art Bell in 1996. Some reports suggested that they levitated under high voltages (though many materials would!). It appears, however, that they are most likely interestingly-shaped bits of <a href="http://ufowatchdog.com/howeufodebris.html">industrial waste</a>.<br /><br />All this talk of unusual effects resulting from spinning strongly diamagnetic or superconducting material may indicate a connection to <a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/gr/torsion.html">torsion</a> physics, but it's difficult to reach any firm conclusions because of the <a href="http://torsionfraud.narod.ru/">controversy</a> in the torsion physics field and the difficulty in defining exactly what torsion <a href="http://www.trinitas.ru/rus/doc/0231/008a/02310063.pdf">is</a>.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-78610834747179267872007-02-13T23:52:00.000+01:002007-02-14T00:14:35.660+01:00Whatever Happened To...Marcus Hollingshead?In late 2002, Marcus Hollingshead seemed to be promising a great new device, derived apparently from his efforts to create a mechanical model of the Earth's magnetic field. This device appeared to accidentally generate antigravitational effects. Some more background can be found <a href="http://www.americanantigravity.com/marcus.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Initially those who communicated with him had a good feeling about it - he seemed a genuine person in emails and on the phone, produced pages of detailed technical specs, and promised (somewhat) public demonstrations. Personally I felt, as I think did he, a sort of bond through similar upbringings (both being half-Usanian and half-Ukanian) Alas, nothing came of all the fuss (unless the MIB know different, of course!) and Marcus himself variously claimed it was a hoax or had gone into secret development (solid state versions were mentioned). In any event, nothing has been heard from him, to my knowledge, since this 2004 <a href="http://www.intalek.com/AV/Marcus-Hollingshead.wma">interview</a>.<br /><br />The jury remains out as to whether he was genuine and has been "got at" by The Powers That Be, or if it was all just a hoax that went too far. Personally, my sympathies are for his wife, who seems to have borne the brunt of fielding an awful lot of phone calls.<br /><br />If you know different...or even if you *are* Marcus and want a right of reply...please get in touch!Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-11663128338635934282007-01-29T22:30:00.000+01:002007-01-29T22:37:50.121+01:00Initial Thoughts on LiftersLike many people, I suspect, my first encounter with Thomas Townsend Brown was a rather breathless chapter of "The Philadelphia Experiment" by Charles Berlitz. As a result, this has led to much rubbish being spouted about the Biefeld-Brown effect and its supposed connection to gravity.<br /><br />A number of experimenters, from the <a href="http://arxiv.org/vc/physics/papers/0211/0211001v1.pdf">US Army</a> to <a href="http://www.blazelabs.com/l-intro.asp#how">hobbyists</a>, via <a href="http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/citations/all/cr-2004-213312.html">NASA</a> have attempted to bottom out the claims that it would operate in vacuum. None have yet shown any thrust in vacuum, strongly indicating that gravity plays no part in it. It appears to be an ion momentum effect, at least at the voltages commonly used today (typically <30kv).<br /><br />This is not to say that it may not have its uses; it is inherently stealthy and doesn't require stored fuel, although its power-to-weight ratio is (currently) pretty poor. I think that it would probably be useful in low-Earth-orbit manoeuvring thrusters, and indeed NASA are already trying to sell the <a href="http://technology.nasa.gov/tops_detail.cfm?pkey=2200095&category=TOPS">concept</a>.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-82789144279601865272007-01-15T19:06:00.000+01:002007-01-15T19:21:46.275+01:00Podkletnov's paper *was* accepted, and here's the proofI'm including a scan of the first page of the page proof of Evgeny Podkletnov's paper as it would have appeared in Journal of Physics D in 1996 had it not been withdrawn as a result of the infamous UK Sunday Telegraph <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/09/01/ngrav01.html">article</a> of Sept 1st, 1996, for the purposes of referencing for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov">Wikipedia article</a> about him.<br /><br />Here 'tis, as supplied by the Ministry of Defence, apparently:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmu3Cyi9n_5r-yteTKBQKqQddAf9bRLDePif5eHdYDsqFdjiCya1sqXX9YOkxtuO8FOK-SkiHeRqjFgC9Y4bK6C7gLLwCsOeI990uXWpVBK3XVrodEnJmsPBpSOJGHzCiZyAixS0IkXI/s1600-h/podkletnov.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmu3Cyi9n_5r-yteTKBQKqQddAf9bRLDePif5eHdYDsqFdjiCya1sqXX9YOkxtuO8FOK-SkiHeRqjFgC9Y4bK6C7gLLwCsOeI990uXWpVBK3XVrodEnJmsPBpSOJGHzCiZyAixS0IkXI/s320/podkletnov.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020323861414515090" /></a>Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-27578969663241137642006-12-30T23:45:00.000+01:002006-12-31T00:01:40.468+01:00Whatever Happened To...F. E. Alzofon? (part 1 of an ongoing series)The name of this engineer from Boeing should be well known in the antigravity community, but Alzofon's paper indicating how such effects might be achieved through contemporary technology ("Anti-gravity with present technology - Implementation and theoretical foundation", ALZOFON, F. E. (Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA) AIAA-1981-1608 SAE, and ASME, Joint Propulsion Conference, 17th, Colorado Springs, CO, July 27-29, 1981) seems to have disappeared without much comment into the mists of time. The first page may be found <a href="http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/1981/PV1981_1608.pdf">here</a> - but I've yet to see any evidence that anyone has ever tried to test it.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961076937092574652.post-19887997825763719132006-12-27T23:23:00.000+01:002006-12-27T23:53:50.161+01:00Going Up....?Welcome to the European Antigravity outpost, named in homage of the excellent <a href="http://www.americanantigravity.com">American Antigravity</a> site run by Tim Ventura. I do not intend to compete with it but rather to complement it by providing a perspective from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Europe">Old Europe</a>.<br /><br />In time, I hope to publicise the efforts of the lesser-known contributors to the field of <a href="http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/">breakthrough propulsion</a> as well as keeping tabs on the better-known efforts and progress (if any). I also hope to (as far as possible) disperse the fog of mis- and dis-information surrounding activities in this field.Uncle Slackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15644517786262458902noreply@blogger.com0