> see the link here:
> "http://www.physorg.com/news12054.html"
>
> Apparently the effect is proportional the the
> spin rate and independent of the size of the
> superconducting ring.

This is so fundamentally amazingly marvellous that i don't believe a 
bit of it :-)
ie things that look set to transform reality as we know it once we 
learn how to scale them up a few million times usually turn out to not 
exist :-(. But we can hope.

> They apparently measured
> a force of 0.0001 Gee's at 6500RPM, so assuming that
> the spinrate is directly proportional to the effect,
> they would need 65 million RPM to levitate an object
> over the spinning disk.. :)

A mere matter of engineering :-).
If a million mechanical revs per second is what it takes to generate 
essentially antigravity then a million mechanical rps you shall have 
by next year some time.
Small OTS turbines are good for 100,000++ RPM so they're a few tenths 
of a % of the way there already :-).

Also, if effect is not size limited one can imagine some extremely 
small devices happening.



        Russell McMahon

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