Antigravity

Antigravity is the rocket scientist's ultimate dream. But is it for real?

Posted by Tormod Guldvog
13 September, 2001 04:09:45

Having heard rumors (some time ago, admittedly) that NASA was funding an antigravity project, Hypography decided to take a look at what the web can offer on this matter.

After browsing endless pages about astral projections and remote sensing, we were hard pressed to find any "real" science behind the concept of gravity reversal. But we did in fact find references to the NASA research funding!

Be aware that this week's hypography contains links to pages that may be fake science, or which claim results which are impossible to prove. We decided that you are able to decide for yourself what's real and what's not.

Anyway, we found stuff ranging from pure fiction to rather serious attempts at defining the "real" properties of antigravity.

Related Links

The World Spacedrives Archive
http://www.spacedrives.org/
If your antigravity drive isn't working properly, try another propulsion method. This is a great site - but it is more fiction than science (so far).

Antigravity II: A Fifth Force?
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw15.html
An essay from Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine which discusses research results which may hint at the existence of antigravity.

Create your own antigravity chamber
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/gravcam.html
This is a clever class project in which "antigravity" is shown to be a free-fall effect.

Electrogravity
http://www.rognerud.com/physics/html/contents.html
This webpage is maintained by Nils Rognerud, who has a theory on electrogravity, which, basically, means it is a theory of antigravity.

Antigravity in Star Wars
http://exn.ca/starwars/antigravity.cfm
This is an entertaining article on the fictional antigravity propulsion used in Star Wars vehicles.

The Antigravity Underground
http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/antigrav.html
A webpage dedicated to the weird science of antigravity.

Gravity, Gravifugal force and Antigravity
http://www.geocities.com/agravity/ANTIGRAVITY.htm
This website is one (very) long paper on a classical understanding of antigravity.

The Podkletnov Effect
http://www.inetarena.com/~noetic/pls/gravity.html
This page presents two projects which claimed to nullify the gravitational force of the Earth, thus opening a possibility for antigravity devices.

Process and installation for generating a gravitational field
http://www.antigravity.de/page2.html
This website presents the ideas and drawings for a patent application regarding an antigravity device.

Anti-gravity mirror
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/anti_gravity.html
A fun project by the Exploratorium web site. Make anti-gravity work by using mirrors!