Research field · Huntsville (UAH, NASA Marshall, Redstone), EarthTech (Austin), Tampere (Podkletnov), Boeing Phantom Works
Gravity and antigravity research
Attempts to modify or shield gravity, mostly with spinning superconductors. Ning Li and Amy Eskridge, both of Huntsville, worked in this small field and are on the expanded lists. AAWSAP commissioned at least four DIRDs on it, including George Hathaway's review that discusses Li's work. Believers point out that promising results tend to vanish into classification.
On the record
- Li and Torr papers: Phys. Rev. D 43 (1991), Phys. Rev. B 46 (1992).
- NASA MSFC's 1997 static test with Li found a null result.
- AC Gravity got a $448,970 Army AMCOM agreement in FY2001; results never published.
- DIRD 14 (Hathaway) reviews Li and Torr and NASA's Podkletnov tests.
- Boeing's Project GRASP evaluated Podkletnov's work (2002).
Claims (7)
'What happened to Ning Li?' 'Promising results always disappear into the classified realm.'analysisSourced, unconfirmed
Li ran 'a very black program' that continues in Huntsville; people near it are harassed or poisoned.anonymousSourced, unconfirmed
Li disappeared to China.secondhandSourced, unconfirmed
Li claimed '11 kilowatts of output effect'.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
Eskridge was killed for antigravity work by a private aerospace company.speculationSourced, unconfirmed
Li's silence after 2002 came from her clearance, not suppression of a breakthrough.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
Biden-era officials told Marc Andreessen that during the Cold War entire areas of physics were classified and taken out of the research community, and entire branches of physics went dark.secondhandSourced, unconfirmedMarc Andreessen (Honestly with Bari Weiss, December 2024)
Connected
Amy Catherine Eskridge personJoshua K. LeBlanc personDr. Ning Li personDr. Sergey O. Macheret person