If this article hadn't been written by a guy who also publishes in Jane's Defence Weekly, I would have written it off as a parody. I mean, seriously, anti-gravity? a division of Boeing called Phantom Works? Cavorite? It gets better:
Using a strong electrical discharge source and a superconducting "emitter", the equipment has produced a "gravity impulse", Mr Podkletnov says, "that is very short in time and propagates with great speed (practically instantaneously) along the line of discharge, passing through different objects without any observable loss of energy".
The result, he maintains, is a repulsive action on any object the beam hits, that is proportional to its mass. When fitted to a laser pointing device, Mr Podkletnov says, his laboratory installation has already demonstrated its ability to knock over objects more than a kilometre away. The same installation, he maintains, could hit objects up to 200km away with the same power.
It was Mr Podkletnov's work with his impulse gravity generator that grabbed the attention of Boeing. In the Grasp briefing document, Boeing describes how the 4in beam shot from the device is reportedly immune to all electro-magnetic shielding and that it goes through anything that gets between it and the target.
Can anyone explain to me how the beam both "goes through anything" AND yet manages to "knock over objects"?
In other news, apparently in small doses you can get order out of disorder. I imagine this would be right up Stephen Wolfram's alley ~ as I think it demonstrates that rules-based behavior can demonstrate emerging order in local areas of a more random system.
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