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First Law????



From the APS News Brief page:

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4. PODKLETNOV GRAVITY SHIELD: NASA INVESTS ANOTHER $600,000.

The Small Business Innovation Research grant went to Superconductive
Components in Columbus, OH to make a 12-inch superconductive disk for an
experimental shield. It's a coveted Phase II award, which goes to the top
projects.

A 6-inch shield built under Phase I didn't work (WN 15 May 98), but NASA,
which has been working on this for 4 years, hopes a bigger one will. The
Columbus Dispatch quotes a NASA official: "Let your imagination run wild.
What could you do if you could cut gravity 50 percent or negate it
altogether?" Well, for one thing you could build a perpetual motion
machine, in violation of the First Law of Thermodynamics.
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Anyone know what this is about???

Anyone want to comment on the understanding of Thermo at the APS????


Jim Green
mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen