Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1132: Chapter 557: A Relaxed Exterior and Tense Interior in the Public Opinion War_1

California, Palo Alto, Stanford University, Institute of Mechanical Engineering.

Mike Bellagar and Jane-Jame were in the lab, studying the circular device that had been constructed on the side.

The circular device looked very high-end, with dense coils underneath, thick glass vessels, and a plethora of unknown metals surrounding it. The silver metal loaded in the glass vessels was glowing, and above it was a super-thin plastic ball suspended in the air.

If seen by ordinary people, they would surely be amazed by the sight before them, but Bellagar and Jame had faces full of confusion. They kept circling around the device, their brows deeply furrowed.

"This is impossible!"

Bellagar said, "We’ve already completed the repeat experiments of superconducting antigravity, but at most, gravity was reduced by ten percent. First, such a large device would need to float, which theoretically requires reducing gravity by at least over seventy percent."

Jame shook her head, "Seventy percent is not enough. Judging from the exposed photos, that big fellow weighs at least one hundred tons, maybe three hundred, five hundred, or even more. Yet the flames emerging from beneath the disc are minimal. It uses thrusters, but likely just for maintaining balance."

Bellagar, thinking it over, said, "Maybe the antigravity effect would push the air upward, providing some lift."

Jame grimaced, "Do you believe wind could lift a device weighing hundreds of tons?"

"After reducing gravity, it’s only a few tens of tons," Bellagar stood by his statement.

Jame pursed her lips, "Okay, as you said, reducing gravity by seventy percent, but we still can’t do it."

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"Sigh!"

The superconducting antigravity device was right before their eyes.

Stanford University has always been committed to the research of antigravity, investing one hundred million dollars annually, and the research has been making progress.

In fact, even before the release of Li Ning’s superconducting antigravity theory, there were already experimental findings related to the ’absence of gravity,’ which were thought to be caused by a ’mysterious electronic thrust.’

More than twenty years ago, scientists from M Country and Country E were already exchanging aerospace technology and discussing a thrust generator capable of controlling gravity.

They believed such research could bring epoch-making impacts to the development of aircraft and might lead to the invention of a new type of weapon.

At the same time, M Country’s NASA, Boeing, and other renowned research institutions began to get involved in related research.

Stanford University was among them.

Last year, an M Country interdisciplinary technology company claimed they had designed a so-called "lifter." The "lifter" was made using a light wooden rod to create a triangular frame, with a wire attached to the rod and surrounded by metal foil.

As long as positive electricity was connected to the wire and negative electricity to the metal foil, the lifter would float off the table and rise into the air. freewebnøvel.com

The "lifter" was initially conceived when one of the company’s electro-optical engineers was conducting a laser experiment.

In the laser he was testing, there were similar components of wire and metal foil. He discovered that as soon as the electricity was connected, the metal foil exhibited inexplicable twisting movements.

He then found that if a triangle made from a wire and a metal foil was used as one unit, a larger and heavier "aircraft" could be made through the combination of multiple such units. Its shape did not need to be aerodynamically designed, nor did it require moving parts; it could rise into the air simply with an electric current.

Latter, a French physicist replicated the experiment in his own lab and made a quantitative measurement of the so-called "lift." In an interview, he said, "My ’lifter’ can accelerate upward quickly and hover very stably in the air."

Now the question arose—

What force was lifting the "lifter" into the air?

Existing physics could not explain the lifter, and related research attracted a great deal of attention.

Then came the experimental findings of Zhao Yi and Li Ning.

They published their experimental results together and also presented related theoretical research, indicating that the spin of ionic lattices could generate an antigravity effect.

This theory perfectly explained the experimental phenomena discovered earlier.

Because of this, Stanford University increased its investment in antigravity research, even inviting Li Ning to lecture at the university with the hope of hiring him as a professor, which he refused. He had only agreed to visit Stanford University to give related reports and lectures.

Li Ning’s reason for refusal was simple; he always wanted recognition, but given his age and being close to retirement, there was no need to change environments and work somewhere else.

Stanford University’s related research could only rely on the theories of Zhao Yi and Li Ning, conducting replication experiments based on them and continuing to expand upon this foundation.

Mike Bellagar and Jane-Jame were at the core of Stanford University’s antigravity research. They conducted replication experiments together and were very successful. The devices they designed had even better effects than the ones published by Zhao Yi and Li Ning.

They always believed that their research was at the cutting edge.

An antigravity effect up to ten percent was an incredibly astonishing figure, enough to lift sheets, plastic balls, directly into the air, not to mention balloons.