Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0752f85
This is the story of an extraordinary scientific adventure - the attempt to
control gravity. For centuries, the precise workings of gravity have confounded
the greatest scientific minds - from Newton to Faraday and Einstein - and the
idea of controlling gravity has been seen as little more than a fanciful dream.
Yet in the mid 1990s, UK defence manufacturer BAE Systems began a ground-
breaking project code-named Greenglow, which set about turning science fiction
into reality. On the other side of the Atlantic, Nasa was simultaneously running
its own Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project. It was concerned with potential
space applications of new physics, including concepts like 'faster-than-light
travel' and 'warp drives'.
Looking into the past and projecting into the future, Horizon explores science's
long-standing obsession with the idea of gravity control. It looks at recent
breakthroughs in the search for loopholes in conventional physics and examines
how the groundwork carried out by Project Greenglow has helped change our
understanding of the universe. Gravity control may sound like science fiction,
but the research that began with Project Greenglow is very much ongoing, and the
dream of flying cars and journeys to the stars no longer seems quite so distant.
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