According to <a href="http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13020.1575" rel="nofollow">http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13020.1575</a> "Martin Tajmar retracts 2006 claims of gravitomagnetic version of frame-dragging as noise" in the publication at <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/24/12/125011" rel="nofollow">http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/24/12/125011</a> , Supercond. Sci. Technol. (2011) 24.<p>Tajmar is one of the researchers in that 2006 ESA project.
This was 2006, but couldn't be reproduced by others so far.<p>I would consider this quantum gravity research by far more important and cheaper than the CERN experiments which got us the mass of the Higgs boson. So far only Podkletnov, Tajmar and de Matos worked on this.<p>Goff and Siegel 2004 on FTL "Faster Than Light":
“Current warp drive investigations [Goldin and Svetlicny, 1994] apply general relativity to try to produce spacetime curvature that propagates at superlight speeds. Special relativity is preserved inside the warp field, but the contents are perceived to move at FTL speeds from the external frames. Such a classical warp drive cannot avoid the temporal paradox (i.e, time travel). If quantum systems are the only system that permits backward-in-time causality without temporal paradox, then any rational warp drive will need to be based on quantum principles. This means that until we have a workable theory of quantum gravity; research into warp drives based on General Relativity is probably doomed to failure.”
> <i>The results were presented at a one-day conference at ESA's European Space and Technology Research Centre (ESTEC), in the Netherlands, 21 March 2006.</i><p>It's not clear that this result was later published in a peer reviewed journal. The Wikipedia page about Eugene_Podkletnov ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov</a> ) don't mention this work, and says that all this research field is very "controversial".
I'm cautiously optimistic, but let's be a bit more reserved on this until we see it properly peer reviewed. This area is ripe for pathological science and a myriad errors induced by human factors.<p>Hopefully other labs around the world will be able to duplicate the experiment soon. We'll see if the results are as well.
"could help physicists to make a significant step towards the long-sought-after quantum theory of gravity."<p>Could they also make a significant step towards the long-sought-after antigrav drive?<p>"Dear scientists, I sincerely respect your hard work but WHERE IS THE TELEPORTER YET?"
Congratulations! You've discovered Gravitonics. "What goes up, better damn well stay up!"<p>Would you like to research?<p>- Anti-gravity<p>- Space Manipulation