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Monday, 27 March, 2000, 23:34 GMT 00:34 UK<br />

Gravity research gets off the ground<br />

Such devices would shield planes from the Earth's pull<br />

A leading UK company is challenging what we understand to be<br />

the fundamental laws of physics.<br />

The military wing of the hi-tech group BAe Systems, formerly<br />

British Aerospace, has confirmed it has launched an anti-gravity<br />

research programme.<br />

It hopes that Project Greenglow will draw scientists from<br />

different backgrounds to work on future technologies that will<br />

have echoes of the propellantless propulsion systems being<br />

investigated by Nasa's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics<br />

Program.<br />

Gravitation shielding<br />

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If any of the work is successful, it could lead to dramatic<br />

developments in the way we travel - anti-gravity devices could<br />

make it much easier for aeroplanes, spacecraft and even the next<br />

generation of cars to get off the ground.<br />

In 1996, the experiments of a Russian scientist were jeered at by<br />

the physics world. Writing in the journal Physica C, Dr Yevgeny<br />

Podkletnov claimed that a spinning, superconducting disc lost<br />

some of its weight. And, in an unpublished paper on the weak<br />

gravitation shielding properties of a superconductor, he argued<br />

that such a disc lost as much as 2% of its weight.<br />

However, most scientists believe that such anti-gravity research<br />

is fundamentally flawed. It goes against what we know about the<br />

physical <strong>Univ</strong>erse and is therefore impossible, they say.<br />

Pascal's Wager<br />

"I find it rather peculiar that they've done this," said Bob Park

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