HFGW Research & STAIF Session-Chair Gary Stephenson provides commentary & analysis on the recent ESA announcement by Dr's Martin Tajmar & Clovis de Matos that superconductors produce a repeatable gravity-modification effect. The reported experimental results for a series of 250-tests over 3 years demonstrate a superconductor rotating at 6,500 rpm gains up to 100 µg of acceleration.
 
Tajmar's experimental results follow in a long thread of anecdotal claims & theoretical predictions from scientists such as Dr's Ning Li, Evgeny Podkletnov, Douglas Torr, Robert Baker, Raymond Chiao, and David Maker. While Li & Podletnov have described seeing remarkable large-scale experimental results, other experiments have produced no results whatsoever, creating a general uncertainty in the scientific community as to whether gravitomagnetic effects do in fact exist in superconductors.
 
Additionally, the reportedly large scale of the effect -- measuring approximately 100 µg -- means that this experiment is raising lots of questions about the nature of the gravitomagnetic coupling effect taking place inside of the superconductor. Should this newly-revealed experimental data be a call to action for the scientific community to look more seriously consider the anecdotal claims relating to superconductive gravitational-modification proposals over the last decade?
 
While the public is generally familiar with Podkletnov's 1996 claim that a 5,000 rpm rotating superconductor produced a column of decreased gravitational force above it, few are aware of the tremendous bulk of scientific research presented on the topic of manipulating gravity using superconductors, found in prestigous peer-reviewed conference publications such as the Mitre 2003 HFGW Conference and STAIF 2004 - 2006 Section-F Conference sessions. Stephenson lends his expertise as a contributor, session-chair, and aerospace-engineer to the task of helping us understand some of the ramifications of this recent breakthrough announcement...