Atko,
The link in your message points to the most amazing piece of info of all I read recently. That experiment by Podkletnov actually seems to violate conservation of momentum along with energy and provides a mechanism for propellantless motion. While conservation of momentum may be still observed globally, energy seems to come absolutely free since all the mass in an indefinitely long cylindrical volume is subjected to the same acceleration push which is not relayed back onto the source. Furthermore, since the process is detached from the source, it appears just as good as a long-sought gravitational wave (with infinite momentum and energy since it can't be screened/shielded).
Yet all the paradoxical experimental data in violation of the basic laws gets seemingly no attention in the report! Instead we get some idiotic "theoretical" humble mumbling by Giovanni Modanese, revealing that he's whether a mathematician with zero understanding of physics or he's purposely muddying the waters, just to make it all look harmless. He has an obvious macroscopic quantum electrodynamical system at his hands which simply must interact primarily with the EM component of ZPF, yet he dumbly proceeds to invent a gravitational ZPF-equivalent out of nowhere and analyses it in the formalism of GR! Just think of the utter idiocy of such approach - if there is a special gravitational ZPF, it's exactly the thing that has to be underlying the GR theory, thus can't be added to the equations as a separate member. (Modanese is a quite a renowned theoretician, btw)
A simple qualitative analysis of interaction of the experimental system with the EM ZPF provides much better understanding of the possible physical model. So we have a piece of HTSC (high-temperature superconductor) with magnetic field frozen in, and there's a pulse of ultra-strong electric current with associated magnetic field travelling through such medium and interfacing to slow plasma currents in discharge. Thus we may expect to see an area of disruption in superconducting state travelling through the medium and reaching greatest negative accelerations exactly at the HTSC/plasma junction. The area of disrupted superconductivity contains all the ZPF modes of wavelengths less that its length, while the bulk superconductor contains almost no ZPF modes at all, interacting with the ZPF as one huge "particle", so it's almost as good as if we had a piece of vacuum flying through very dense medium and experiencing violent stop at the junction. So to the vacuum it appears as if a piece of HTSC matter disappears at the junction very fast, and then reappears again as the plasma takes the current away slowly. Thus we basically have an equivalent of the case of violently accelerating mass in the EM ZPF, but here it's the EM ZPF itself that's put into a violent acceleration. I would expect a kind of a mechanical longitudinal shock wave to be generated in this case in the EM ZPF which must act on matter irrespective of the electric charge, just by the proper volume which could be dubbed the "inertial mass" if inertia really is of the ZPF nature and the copious writings on the matter by Rueda, Haisch, Puthoff and many others do bear some connection with reality... (which I believe they do, btw).
So it all seems to be a pulse of directional inertia modification generated in the experiment, rather than a pulse of gravity, or better yet - just a jerk of "aether".
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