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Wenceslas Mine, they would have needed something robust to test
the forces generated.
And what of the weirdest variable of all? The gateway to the
hyperspace itself?
There was a burst of applause in the lecture theater. If I'd got the
Russian right, he was saying that gravity shielding—antigravity by
another name—was a torsion field "excitation" of the physical vacuum,
soaked as it was with zero-point energy.
The Bell, Schauberger's work and Podkletnov's were all linked by
torsion fields and torsion fields appeared to be the key to a host of effects
science was at a loss to explain; effects that came from somewhere, some
other place, that lay beyond the vacuum of nothingness.
In the Q&A session after the formal part of his talk, Podkletnov had made
a reference to something that I needed to follow up on. He'd mentioned
that during a recent round of experiments he had generated an even more
pronounced shielding effect, one that demonstrated a consistent weight
loss in objects exposed to the beam of five percent—double his previous
best—for short periods of time.
No doubt mindful that NASA had been unable to produce
superconductors of the required size, strength and fidelity to duplicate
the Russian's experiments, a member of the audience asked him what size
discs he'd been using. With a look of evident pride, Podkletnov replied
that he'd been using 30-centimeter discs—so strong that the president of
Toshiba had been able to stand on one without breaking it.
Half an hour later, during a buffet organized by the university for its
unconventional guest and the assortment of government and industry
types who'd come to hear him speak, I managed to talk to Podkletnov in
a quiet corner of the room.
He must have known that I wanted to pick up on the Japanese angle,
because no sooner had I hit him with my business card, than he announced
that most regrettably the topic of Japanese sponsorship wasn't
for discussion. He had said more than he ought on the subject and that
was that.
This in itself, of course, was interesting. But the block on this avenue
of inquiry was so abrupt that for a moment it wrong-footed me.
I grappled for some new purchase on the conversation. "How about
aerospace applications?" I asked.
I half expected Podkletnov to tell me what he had previously told
Charles Platt, the American journalist who'd tracked him down in the
wilds of Finland. Platt had revealed that Podkletnov was working on a