Re: "Scalar Gravity" predicts anti-gravity?

From: Eric Gisse (fsegg_at_!SPAMuaf.edu)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:57:40 -0800

On 29 Aug 2004 06:14:07 -0700, pabird@supanet.com (Xman) wrote:

>Type in "The New Laws of Gravity" to Google and you come up with a
>book at:
>
>users.whsmithnet.co.uk/paulbird/gravbook/
>
>which is a new theory of gravity which seems to say that the faster
>something goes the less it is affected by gravity. So for, example if
>you spin a dohnut shaped object at a speed close to the speed of light
>it will levitate!
>
>Unfortunately it also says that the energy required to do this would
>be astronomical. I wonder if anyone could design an experiment on
>Earth (not an atronimcal observation) that would test if something
>travelling really fast felt less affect of gravity? I tried to do this
>myself by imagining an experiment in a supersonic jet that would
>decrease the mass of a one tonne object suspended in it by a few
>milligrams but I wasn't able to work out the details....

Crap on many levels, but the most basic of which is that it is
non-relativistic.

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