(urth) Wolfe vindicated!

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/5/2011 5:02 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> I always thought the Autarch's explanation of how flyers work an in-joke
> by Wolfe, but saw a link today to:
>
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/f723g0856r4412w3/fulltext.pdf
>
> (from http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-quantum-vacuum-dark.html)
>
> Hajdukovic concludes:
>
> the gravitational properties of antimatter [will] be tested in CERN
> before the end of the current decade (Kellerbauer et al. 2008) and that
> the recent theoretical considerations give some support to the
> gravitational repulsion between matter and antimatter (Villata 2011).
>
> Villata, M.: CPT symmetry and antimatter gravity in general relativity.
> Europhys. Lett. 94, 20001 (2011)
>
> So, was this idea already floating around in the 60-70's?

Totally, Lem uses it in THE CYBERIAD. in the 1990's, Forward's 
TIMEMASTER showed how negative mass has all kinds implications besides 
just floating ships (time travel, stargates, infinite acceleration, 
paradox-guided missiles) though.


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