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Gravity wave mirrors?
This is rather early research results still, they are claiming here that superconductors can act like gravitational mirrors and that Gravity probe B, which uses superconducting coated gyroscope spheres, which has a series of anomalous results, might have seen it thus.
This is certainly a rather interesting and major announcement and as such I imagine that some research groups will be wanting to look in to replicating this work and seeing if they got it right. Though if it is true, imagine what kind of influence it might have to future technologies and physics. 
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3/24/2009, 11:31 am
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Re: Gravity wave mirrors?
So I was talking with someone about this and they say the article implies that superconductors might be able to make gravity waves as well thus and that a rather simple experiment the claims might thus be possible. Namely by creating two superconducting structures, one to emit gravity waves and the other to detect them. In any case, I guess I might update this posting again if I hear any more on experimental verification one way or the other.
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3/25/2009, 7:29 pm
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Re: Gravity wave mirrors?
Interesting. Maybe we'll finally figure out what exactly gravity is.
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Re: Gravity wave mirrors?
Shades of Honorverse! Could this be the first tiny steps towards the "impeller drive?"
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Re: Gravity wave mirrors?
Nah, later checking turns out it's a complete failure. Oh well, on to the next idea. Who here thinks femto-technology has a real chance of being doable?
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8/28/2009, 7:05 pm
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Re: Gravity wave mirrors?
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Nah, later checking turns out it's a complete failure.
Oh, sadness!!
And Rick, that was precisely my first thought as well. No, actually, my FIRST thought was more like "Ooooooo! SHINY!" (Which is what I think of most fun science articles -- there's a reason I'm in my current profession!) But my SECOND thought was along the lines of impeller drives!
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Oh well, on to the next idea. Who here thinks femto-technology has a real chance of being doable?
As for that, I have no idea. Right now, we don't understand the physics behind any of this well enough to make more than semi-educated guesses (like the one the article was about). They're fascinating and I hope that someday one of them will pan out, but I'm not going to hold my breath til that day, either!
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Well to help things a long a bit, the suggestion with femto-technology is to use degenerate matter. And to then string things together from that, of course that kind of matter typically only exists under ridiculous amounts of pressure.... Neutron stars I guess comes to mind. But so yeah, make things out of sub atomic particles, like protons, neutrons and electrons. 
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8/29/2009, 7:27 am
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