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A comment on Einstein's Other Theory of Everything.

Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything by frede on Sunday September 01, 2024 @08:02PM (#41421363)
This recent presentation from Kepler Airospace claims that Einstein was on the right track and a goes even further, stating that gravity can be manipulated through EM. I've graduated in Physics but not quite sure what to make of it.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383609891_Gravity_M...

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Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything by doug-moen on Sunday September 01, 2024 @09:42PM (#41421876)
I'm cheering them on, but I'm not confident that the technology works, based on the people involved. I don't think the new physics underlying this work are published in a peer-reviewed physics journal.

Here's a page about John Brandenburg, one of the authors: <https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/John_Brandenburg>

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Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything by imglorp on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:21PM (#41422098)
Given how easy it seems to reproduce, someone had better explain this effect if it's not what is claimed there...

PS: this looks like anyone could reproduce or refute it in their basement for a few hundred dollars given all the details in the slides. I'm hoping some amateurs step in.

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Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything by Pompidou on Sunday September 01, 2024 @11:02PM (#41422274)
"Gem test" 1 and 2 on john brandenburg 's youtube channel :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqbOnqZtz3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRbLA6dhtk

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Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything by imglorp on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:07AM (#41422748)
It all seems to suffer from some of the issues the EM Drive saw: the proposed effect is tiny and very, very difficult to tease apart from environmental and system noise. I hope I'm wrong.
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Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything by tbrownaw on Sunday September 01, 2024 @11:35PM (#41422381)
I wonder what he'd think of the "jumping ring" experiment: https://wonders.physics.wisc.edu/jumping-ring/
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