The Hunt for Zero Point
by Nick Cook, Century, £17.99, ISBN 0712669531
A RUSSIAN researcher called Evgeny (or Eugene) Podkletnov announced to the
world in 1992 that he had succeeded in shielding an area of space from gravity.
He was dismissed as a charlatan, of course—but then NASA went and set up a
project to investigate it. Podkletnov disappeared from view. A woman called Ning
Li began researching “gravity shielding effects” at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville and announced that she, too, was getting somewhere. Then she dropped
out of sight. NASA has not yet abandoned antigravity.
Nick…
