Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
From news@postman.essex.ac.uk Wed Jan 11 07:43:25 1995
From: ierof@essex.ac.uk (Ieromnimon F)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Subject: Re: plasma gravity

In article <3ev409$8ju@mojo.eng.umd.edu> markcln@on-ramp.ior.com writes:
> A friend of mine recently told me that ducts beneath the floor
>of a space station filled with particular types of plasma similar to what
>is used in flourescent lights connected to an enormously large power source
>could create a gravitational pull. I don't really see how this could happen.
>Could anyone enlighten me?
>
>Carlin
>markcln@on-ramp.ior.com
>_______________________________________

He was pulling your leg. The power levels that could bring electromagnetism and
gravity to interact existed for a fleeting moment (talk about understatements..)
after the birth of the universe, as per the big-bang scenario. Not even a super-
nova could pull the same trick today, let alone a man-made power supply.

What are we to do with the idiots that flood the net with pseudo-scientific
claptrap of this sort? I don't think it's a passing fad, and it's deadly
serious. Stupidity and ignorance are spreading like the plague :-(.

Frank Ieromnimon,
SRO, PACE Project,
Essex University