What makes anti gravity

It turned out that one problem was that the original experimenters failed to stir their calorimeter thoroughly. And remember the Fifth Force? A book entitled Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force, by Allan Franklin [American Institute of Physics, ], makes interesting reading about the types of issues that bear on the quality and repeatability of experiment, as well as the interpretation of data.

Unfortunately, 'the Devil is in the details,' and the conclusions of the experiment rest on these details. The lay public must rely on reports that refer to peer review of the experiment and original sources. In the antigravity experiments, no such peer review appears to be available, and therefore the conclusions, at this time, cannot be supported.

Sign up for our email newsletter. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue. See Subscription Options. Discover World-Changing Science. Rumors of an experiment showing the existence of antigravity spread like wildfire in the fall of after being mentioned in the Sunday Telegraph and then picked up by Business Week and New Scientist.

The objective of this endeavor has been to establish the presence of an anti-gravity force which has also been in existence in nature but, yet to be recognized in the realm of science.

Also, the concept of dark-energy-an elusive idea, may also encompass antigravity while explicating it. The author declares that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper. The author thanks A. Gole, U. Annakkage and S. Rosa for continual support of this work. Ltd are greatly acknowledged. The author would also like to thank H.

Piyadasa and G. Palathirathna Wirasinha, for their extensive edits to improve the quality of this manuscript. Supplementary Materials. Gamini Piyadasa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Article of the Year Award: Outstanding research contributions of , as selected by our Chief Editors. Read the winning articles. Journal overview.

Special Issues. An Expression of Concern for this article has been published. Guest Editor: Farook Rahaman. Received 18 Mar Accepted 06 Sep Published 07 Jan Abstract The gravitational attraction force being proportional to the mass has been experimentally shown for several hundred years now, but no gravitational repulsion has been identified within the accepted scientific reasoning. Introduction Gravity is a one of the fundamental forces identified in nature, formulated by Sir Isaac Newton in as: The law of universal gravitation [ 1 ].

Figure 1. Figure extracted from reference [ 2 ]—Experimental set-up to observe movement of heat-evaporated iodine vapor in vacuum. The electrical heater plate itself covers the iodine particles moving directly in upward direction.

The iodine source was surrounded with a paper jacket in order to capture the deposition geometry of iodine. Pressure at the top of the chamber was higher than at the bottom ,. Figure 2. Figure extracted from reference [ 3 ]—Thermal image of the turnaround point TAP of the stream of the condensed steam droplets CSD and the vertical temperature distribution of the middle of TAP area.

Only way out in deep space, beyond the domain of any planets or stars, can you truly escape gravity. As of yet, no technology exists to neutralize the pull of gravity. Astronauts use this method to train for spaceflight; it also gave us scenes of a weightless Tom Hanks in the film Apollo This mimics what you'd feel if, for some reason, you happened to find yourself in a rollercoaster carriage in deep space.

During the rest of a roller coaster ride you feel the upward push of the seat on you. Without a way to turn off gravity on Earth, scientists must launch experiments into orbit to test what happens in weightlessness. The International Space Station, officially designed a U. National Laboratory, houses hundreds of projects investigating everything from the effects of weightlessness on viruses which become more virulent and crystals which grow much larger to human bodies which suffer bone density degradation and damaged eyesight.

Scientists hope medicines developed in the unusual conditions of space can help treat regular health issues on Earth. The researchers demonstrate the bizarre effects of these levitating liquids using two small toy boats.

With the help of a magnetic pointer, they coaxed one boat to the top of the liquid and the other to the bottom. In a non-vibrating environment, we would expect the top boat to float thanks to Archimedes ' principle of buoyancy and the boat on the underside to fall to the bottom of the chamber.

But, in these experiments, researchers observed that both boats floated on their respective surfaces, with the lower boat sailing upside down on the underside of the levitating liquid. They also observed that this was a stable state for the boat and that moving it around using the pointer did not cause it to fall.

Is physics broken? The researchers are excited about what other bizarre states like this might exist in the fields of chemistry or biology, they say in the paper.