Anti-gravity

Anti Gravity is a force to counteract gravity. She is a frequent motif in science fiction. There it is explained either as a shield of gravity or as a gravitational force opposite, a rejection of the masses.

The contrary view all experiments and findings that gravity can neither shield, nor that there is a gravitation with repellent activity. In physics, therefore, goes so far assume that attract mass -prone particles due to gravity and there is no anti-gravity with the opposite effect. Individual research, the report of other results be viewed with great skepticism and failed to convince the professional world.

There are in the art a number of methods to levitation, the free floating objects to cause, that is, to compensate for the force of gravity; for example, by compressed air or fields such as electromagnetic fields, or acoustic standing wave fields.

Experiments with experimental verification

The Russian researcher Evgeny Podkletnow claims to have found in an experiment with superconductors in 1992 that over a very fast rotating superconductor decreases the effect of gravity. Various physicists have tried in vain to reproduce the result of Podkletnow.

There was also research projects on the part of the defense industry as Project GRASP ( Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion ) from Boeing and BAE Systems Project Greenglow.

The Institute for Gravitational Research at the Göde Foundation has tried to reproduce different experiments which are intended to show an effect antigravitativen supposedly. In all cases, the attempt to observe an antigravity effect was unsuccessful. The Foundation has established an annual award of one million euros for a reproducible experiment.

Antigravity in sci-fi novels

At a very early intervention science fiction authors to the idea that if there were anti-gravity, easily overcome gravity and could ascend into space. In Kurd Lasswitz 'novel on two planets by 1897, the Martians dominate an anti- gravity technology that allows them to build interplanetary spaceships hovering flight vessels and chambers severity and severity helmets for personal use. Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) describes in his 1908 published novel The Red Planet a " Eteronef " ( nef "ship" ) called spaceship, with the dose through the use of anti-gravity matter a gentle flight from Earth to Mars is possible.