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- From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
- Subject: Re: Antigravity
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 09:57:46 GMT
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- >[..] ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
- >> What sort of research is going on regarding antigravity?
-
- [...]
-
- >(Well, I lie a little bit... General relativity says it is possible, but
- >only if your machinery can do fun things like accelerating large lumps
- >of neutronium [assuming you can make it and stabilize it somehow] to
- >substantial fractions of the speed of light in quite short times. By
- >the time we can do that, we're unlikely to find Earth's feeble little
- >gravitational field much of a problem any more.)
-
- Can you, please, give a reference (seriously) ? Since GR says gravity is
- curvature -- what is anti-gravity ? anticurvature :-) ? and what's
- that :-)) ?
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