• Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No theoretical physical models have made any testable predictions that include an anti-gravitational effect

  • jumjummy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I remember watching a video that covered experiments proving that antimatter still falls “down” as well, so that avenue isn’t a valid place to look either.

  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You’re asking a lot of questions… my friends in the black suits over there would like to take you to dinner to discuss…

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      11 months ago

      Scientists who have since studied Brown’s devices have not found any anti-gravity effect, and have attributed the noticed motive force to the more well-understood phenomenon of ionic drift or “ion wind” from the air particles, some of which remained even when Brown put his device inside a vacuum chamber. More recent studies at NASA, held at high voltages and proper vacuum conditions, showed no generated force.

      Ion thrusters are real (and neat), but they are not anti-gravity tech.

  • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No because there’s no such thing, for reasons that are obvious to anyone who knows about General Relativity.