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Berkeley's Raymond Chiao has some interesting conjecture on gravity waves:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23198/
According to him, it should be possible for a superconductor to reflect gravity waves like a mirror.
This then leads to all sorts of interesting possibilities, such as the idea of vibrating a superconducting element at a high enough frequency to produce a standing wave that could be of sufficient magnitude to offset gravity.
It's just a theory of course, but Chiao claims to have found some interesting data from NASA's Gravity Probe B to corroborate his work.
Since graphene is able to make electrons appear to behave as if they were massless, I wonder if it could be used in probing the nature of gravity?
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23198/
According to him, it should be possible for a superconductor to reflect gravity waves like a mirror.
This then leads to all sorts of interesting possibilities, such as the idea of vibrating a superconducting element at a high enough frequency to produce a standing wave that could be of sufficient magnitude to offset gravity.
It's just a theory of course, but Chiao claims to have found some interesting data from NASA's Gravity Probe B to corroborate his work.
Since graphene is able to make electrons appear to behave as if they were massless, I wonder if it could be used in probing the nature of gravity?