
A tale of theory, experiment, UFO sightings, secret military programs, and CIA disinformation campaigns.
https://www.freethink.com/space/anti-gravity-propulsion
EXCERPTS: The first person to claim experimental evidence for anti-gravity did so long before Babson set out to combat “that ‘dragon’ Gravity.”
As a teenager in 1921, Thomas Townsend Brown, born to a wealthy construction family in Ohio, was playing around with a high-voltage Coolidge X-ray tube in a laboratory paid for by his parents when he noticed that the tube weighed less than it should have when he placed it upright on a scale.
Brown concluded that high voltages across two asymmetrically shaped conductive plates were producing an “anti-gravitational” effect, either partially shielding Earth’s gravity or else producing a propulsive force directly. Brown named the phenomenon the Biefeld-Brown effect after himself and Paul Alfred Biefeld, a professor of astronomy at Denison University, which Brown had attended for one year.
In reality, what Brown was seeing was thrust produced by the high voltages ionizing surrounding air and then accelerating it with an electric field, which is conventional Newtonian propulsion. His mistake marked the beginning of a long history of confused and difficult-to-reproduce experimental results claiming evidence of anti-gravity and, specifically, a close connection between gravity and electromagnetism, the study of electric and magnetic fields.
[...] So far, we have experimental evidence for gravitational repulsion that fails to hold up under the scrutiny of replication experiments and a smattering of theoretical physics to support it that isn’t accepted as mainstream science.
Enter from stage left in the anti-gravity discussion: the Department of Defense and what can most accurately be described as either admission of “Star Trek”-like technological capabilities or a sustained effort at militarized scientific disinformation.
In 2016, the US Patent Office approved an application titled “Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device.” Filed by the US Department of Navy with Salvatore Pais listed as the inventor, the patent makes the bold implication that anti-gravity technology is fully mature and already embodied in a functional craft. The office denied the application twice for insufficient detail for replication, but decided to approve it after Navy CTO James Sheehy declared that the invention was feasible and cited international competition from China...
[...] A discussion of anti-gravity research wouldn’t be complete without elaborating on Hal Puthoff, who has recently appeared on podcasts, including “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Ecosystemic Futures,” to describe his past work investigating topics like remote-viewing and the US’s unidentified flying object crash-retrieval program with Stanford Research Institute (SRI)...
[...] The quest for anti-gravity is more than just an effort to prove theories at the frontiers of physics — or enact revenge for the death of a loved one. If successfully mastered, it would forever change the course of civilization and humanity’s ability to explore the stars... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.freethink.com/space/anti-gravity-propulsion
EXCERPTS: The first person to claim experimental evidence for anti-gravity did so long before Babson set out to combat “that ‘dragon’ Gravity.”
As a teenager in 1921, Thomas Townsend Brown, born to a wealthy construction family in Ohio, was playing around with a high-voltage Coolidge X-ray tube in a laboratory paid for by his parents when he noticed that the tube weighed less than it should have when he placed it upright on a scale.
Brown concluded that high voltages across two asymmetrically shaped conductive plates were producing an “anti-gravitational” effect, either partially shielding Earth’s gravity or else producing a propulsive force directly. Brown named the phenomenon the Biefeld-Brown effect after himself and Paul Alfred Biefeld, a professor of astronomy at Denison University, which Brown had attended for one year.
In reality, what Brown was seeing was thrust produced by the high voltages ionizing surrounding air and then accelerating it with an electric field, which is conventional Newtonian propulsion. His mistake marked the beginning of a long history of confused and difficult-to-reproduce experimental results claiming evidence of anti-gravity and, specifically, a close connection between gravity and electromagnetism, the study of electric and magnetic fields.
[...] So far, we have experimental evidence for gravitational repulsion that fails to hold up under the scrutiny of replication experiments and a smattering of theoretical physics to support it that isn’t accepted as mainstream science.
Enter from stage left in the anti-gravity discussion: the Department of Defense and what can most accurately be described as either admission of “Star Trek”-like technological capabilities or a sustained effort at militarized scientific disinformation.
In 2016, the US Patent Office approved an application titled “Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device.” Filed by the US Department of Navy with Salvatore Pais listed as the inventor, the patent makes the bold implication that anti-gravity technology is fully mature and already embodied in a functional craft. The office denied the application twice for insufficient detail for replication, but decided to approve it after Navy CTO James Sheehy declared that the invention was feasible and cited international competition from China...
[...] A discussion of anti-gravity research wouldn’t be complete without elaborating on Hal Puthoff, who has recently appeared on podcasts, including “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Ecosystemic Futures,” to describe his past work investigating topics like remote-viewing and the US’s unidentified flying object crash-retrieval program with Stanford Research Institute (SRI)...
[...] The quest for anti-gravity is more than just an effort to prove theories at the frontiers of physics — or enact revenge for the death of a loved one. If successfully mastered, it would forever change the course of civilization and humanity’s ability to explore the stars... (MORE - missing details)