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FINNISH SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY University of Technology in Finland, who _ publication by the Journal of Physics D: discovered the effect, say it could form the Applied Physics, published by Britain's heart of a new power source, in which it is _ Institute of Physics. used to drive fluids past electricity-generat- "Even so, most scientists will not feel ing turbines. comfortable with the idea of anti-gravity "According to Dr Eugene Podkletnov, — until other teams repeat the experiments. who led the research, the discovery was Some scientis spect the anti-gravity accidental. It emerged during routine work effect is a long-sought side-effect of on so-called 'superconductivity', the ability Einstein's general theory of relativity, by of some materials to lose their electrical which spinning objects can distort gravity. resistance at very low temperatures. "Until now it was thought the effect "The team was carrying out tests ona would be far too small to measure in the rapidly spinning disc of superconducting laboratory. However, Dr Ming Li, a senior ceramic suspended in the magnetic field of research scientist at the University of three electric coils, all enclosed ina low- Alabama, said the atoms inside supercon- temperature vessel called a cryostat. ductors may magnify the effect enormous- One of my friends came in and he was_ ly. Her research is funded by NASA's smoking his pipe,’ Dr Podkletnov said. 'He Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, put some smoke over the cryostat, and saw Alabama, and Whitt Brantley, the chief of that the smoke was going to the ceiling all Advanced Concepts office there, said, the time. It was amazing—we couldn't ‘We're taking a look at it, because if we explain it.’ don't, we'll never know." "Tests showed a small drop in the weight "The Finnish team is already expanding of objects placed over the device, as if it its programme, to see if it can amplify the were shielding the object from the effects anti-gravity effect. In its latest experi- of [the Earth's] gravity—an effect deemed ments, the team has measured a two per impossible by most scientists. cent drop in the weight of objects suspend- "We thought it might be a mistake,’ Dr _ ed over the device—and double that if one Podkletnov said, 'but we have taken every device is suspended over another. precaution.’ Yet the bizarre effects persist- "If the team can increase the effect sub- ed. The team found that even the air pres- _ stantially, the commercial implications are sure vertically above the device dropped — enormous." slightly, with the effects detectable directly above the A 1-stone object would device on every floor aust Sholay" of the laboratory. effect of the device "In recent years, many so-called ‘anti- gravity' devices have been put forward by both amateur and professional scien- tists, and all have been scorned by the establishment. What c makes this latest 7 claim different is that = pl it has — survived | solenoids used to put magnetic |___ Three solenoids, which ‘allow ring to intense scrutiny by | field around ring “™ levitate magnetically sceptical, indepen- dent experts, and has been accepted for W THE ANTI-GRAVITY DEVICE KS Ring of superconduct- ing ceramic (yttrium- barium-copper oxide), spinning at 5,000 rpm. Figure 1: Unit approx. 12-in diameter come to us from two sources. The November 1996 issue of the Australian International UFO-Flying Saucer Research, Inc. Newsletter carries an article on page 15 which appears to have been taken straight from Skywatch, 8 September 1996, and is entitled "Antigravity from Finland". The other source is an article that appeared in the Sunday Telegraph (UK) on 1 September 1996 (page 3), obtained off the Internet by our treasurer, Lee Earle. To all appearances, this is a genuine report of an anomalous discovery with stu- pendous implications, and will be treated as such in this article. From what we know about the UFO cover-up and, in particular, the secrecy over advanced technology, this may well be all we will hear about this dis- covery if it is absolutely genuine and real. So we might as well make the best of what we have now, rather than wait for more. It is apparent that the Skywatch article is itself based on the Sunday Telegraph arti- cle, or that both share a common source, because the wording is virtually identical. I reproduce here all the wording which describes the discovery, but leave out most of the paragraphs or sentences which spec- ulate on the possible significance and application of this discovery. We know its significance well enough. | eee about this discovery has THE REPORT "Scientists in Finland are about to reveal details of the world's first anti-gravity device. Measuring about 12 inches across, the device is said to reduce significantly the weight of anything suspended over it. "The claim—which has been rigorously examined by scientists, and is due to appear in a physics journal next month— could spark a technology revolution... "The Sunday Telegraph has learned that NASA, the American space agency, is tak- ing the claims seriously and is funding research into how the anti-gravity effect could be turned into a means of flight. "The researchers at the Tampere APRIL - MAY 1997 NEXUS - 47 by Martin Gottschall ©1997