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8/8     Yes, this is from /., but I think it's pretty cool anyways.
        http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0108005  The guy claims he found
        a new force, or something like that. -- ilyas
        \_ I told you there is an explanation for all the flying in
           Crouching Tiger.

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xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0108005Giovanni Modanese Comments: LaTeX, 32 pages, 7 figures in separated GIF and JPG files. The results confirm the existence of an unexpected physical interaction. An apparatus has been constructed and tested in which the superconductor is subjected to peak currents in excess of 10^4 A, surface potentials in excess of 1 MV, trapped magnetic field up to 1 T, and temperature down to 40 K. In order to produce the required currents a high voltage discharge technique has been employed. Discharges originating from a superconducting ceramic electrode are accompanied by the emission of radiation which propagates in a focused beam without noticeable attenuation through different materials and exerts a short repulsive force on small movable objects along the propagation axis. Within the measurement error (5 to 7 %) the impulse is proportional to the mass of the objects and independent on their composition. The observed phenomenon appears to be absolutely new and unprecedented in the literature. It cannot be understood in the framework of general relativity. A theory is proposed which combines a quantum gravity approach with anomalous vacuum fluctuations.