Comment on ESA confirms Podkletnov's Anti-Gravity Effect (2006)Comments−dalke12yAccording to http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13020.1575 "Martin Tajmar retracts 2006 claims of gravitomagnetic version of frame-dragging as noise" in the publication at http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/24/12/125011 , Supercond. Sci. Technol. (2011) 24.Tajmar is one of the researchers in that 2006 ESA project.−madaxe_again12yIt's interesting how several other research groups have done the same - gone "yup, replicated", then followed up with a retraction not long after.There's also a paper floating around in which the phenomenon is explained, and the author posits you could do it with normal (strong) ferrite magnets.If I were wearing my tin-foil-hat, today...
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According to http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13020.1575 "Martin Tajmar retracts 2006 claims of gravitomagnetic version of frame-dragging as noise" in the publication at http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/24/12/125011 , Supercond. Sci. Technol. (2011) 24.
Tajmar is one of the researchers in that 2006 ESA project.
It's interesting how several other research groups have done the same - gone "yup, replicated", then followed up with a retraction not long after.
There's also a paper floating around in which the phenomenon is explained, and the author posits you could do it with normal (strong) ferrite magnets.
If I were wearing my tin-foil-hat, today...