Ning Li

Physicist (1943–2021), formerly of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, central figure in the vault's antigravity/fringe-defense-funding cluster: with Douglas Torr she proposed in 1991 that rotating ions in a Type-II superconductor could produce a laboratory-scale gravitomagnetic effect, then carried the work into a private successor company, AC Gravity LLC, which reportedly took a $448,970 DoD grant in 2001. She matters to the vault not for the physics — never independently replicated — but as the case study of how an unretracted, unreplicated claim leaves an administrative residue (a funded, still-legally-active company) that outlives the science and gets re-narrated decades later.

References

• claim-ning-li-1991-gravitomagnetic-superconductor-antigravity-proposal
• claim-ac-gravity-llc-took-dod-antigravity-grant-and-published-nothing
• claim-superconductor-antigravity-effects-never-independently-replicated
• claim-ac-gravity-llc-foia-request-closed-without-records
• claim-ac-gravity-llc-active-alabama-registration-2026
• claim-harris-1999-rebutted-torr-li-gravitoelectric-coupling-claim
• claim-2011-tajmar-retested-own-apparatus-not-independent-boulder-replication
• 2026-08-23: The 1991 Li–Torr paper, read directly at last, turns out to be a passive calculation of a superconductor's response to external gravitomagnetic fields, not itself the "generator" proposal this page previously implied — that active claim belongs to later, still-unread 1992–1994 papers. (claim-ning-li-1991-gravitomagnetic-superconductor-antigravity-proposal)
• 2026-08-23: The vault's "2011 University of Colorado Boulder" replication of the effect could not be confirmed anywhere; the real 2011 document is Martin Tajmar's own team re-testing its own apparatus and blaming acoustic noise, a related but distinct claim-family from Li's. (claim-2011-tajmar-retested-own-apparatus-not-independent-boulder-replication)
• 2026-08-24: Neither the 1992 Physical Review B paper nor the still-unlocated 1994 UAH preprint (Li, Torr & Karwacki) states the "generate gravity in the laboratory" claim; that framing actually first appears in a 1992 APS conference abstract, a year ahead of the 1993 paper Harris's rebuttal targets. (claim-li-torr-1992-prb-paper-is-passive-permeability-model-not-antigravity-claim, claim-li-torr-generator-claim-traces-to-1992-aps-abstract-1993-paper, claim-li-torr-karwacki-1994-uah-preprint-unlocated)
• 2026-08-25: That 1992 APS conference abstract itself remains unlocated after a genuine multi-route search (APS's own archive only covers 2005 onward); its "generator" wording is known only through a single, uncorroborated secondary transcription. (claim-li-torr-1992-aps-abstract-unlocated-single-transcription)