Russian materials scientist who reported a gravity-shielding effect above a rotating superconducting disc in the 1990s and went on to build the Impulse Gravity Generator. With the theorist Giovanni Modanese he reported that a high-voltage discharge across a superconducting cathode produced a force deflecting pendulum bobs of any material at 150 metres, through a Faraday cage, steel and brick, and judged the force gravitational rather than electrokinetic. The work has been reported in the aerospace trade press and has not been independently replicated. His career was destroyed by a newspaper’s use of the word antigravity rather than by any examination of his data, a point The Hunt for Zero Point makes at length; both Project Greenglow and Breakthrough Propulsion Physics engaged with the claim directly.
PURSUE Release 06 record DOW-UAP-D131, The Role of Superconductors in Gravity Research (2010), one of the DIRDs, builds its history around his 1992 experiment: simplified replications found apparent weight changes too close to the noise to pursue, a later NASA effect was traced to an instrumentation artefact, and of his high-voltage gravity beam it says more and more scientists are concluding the experiment was never actually performed.
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Impulse Gravity Generator · Electrogravitics · Subquantum Kinetics · Paul LaViolette · The Hunt for Zero Point · Project Greenglow · Breakthrough Propulsion Physics · DIRDs · High-Frequency Gravitational Waves