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34 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 21 claims, 5 questions, 7 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract itself state 'provide a basis for the electrical generation of gravitational fields in the laboratory,' as a 2010 DIA survey document quotes it?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-25 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract remains unlocated after a multi-route search, leaving its 'generator' quote resting on a single, uncorroborated transcription
  claim seedling Tier n/a — negative/absence finding; no primary text was found to quote directly 2026-08-25 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Do Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper and the 1994 UAH preprint (Li, Torr & Karwacki) actually state that rotating ions in a superconductor could generate a usable antigravity field?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper is a theoretical model of superconductor magnetic permeability, not a claim that rotating ions generate a usable antigravity field
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The Li–Torr 'generate gravity in the laboratory' claim traces to a 1992 APS conference abstract and the 1993 Foundations of Physics Letters paper, not the 1991 or 1992 journal papers
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The 1994 Li, Torr & Karwacki UAH preprint on lattice-ion rotation could not be located after a multi-route search, and its content remains unverified
  claim seedling Tier n/a — negative/absence finding; no primary text was found to quote 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Does Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract itself state 'provide a basis for the electrical generation of gravitational fields in the laboratory,' as a 2010 DIA survey document quotes it?
  question open 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• What do the primary sources say about Ning Li's 1991 gravitomagnetic proposal and its 2011 replication?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The 2011 'replication' in the superconductor-antigravity literature was Martin Tajmar's own research group re-testing its own 2006–2009 apparatus, not an independent University of Colorado Boulder team
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Edward G. Harris's 1999 peer-reviewed paper formally rebutted Torr and Li's claim that a superconductor generates a detectable gravitomagnetic/gravitoelectric field
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Do Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper and the 1994 UAH preprint (Li, Torr & Karwacki) actually state that rotating ions in a superconductor could generate a usable antigravity field?
  question open 2026-08-23 · physics, antigravity, superconductivity, ning-li, primary-source-verification
• Too clean to be real — a room-temperature-superconductivity claim unmade by forensic reading of the published data, not by failed replication
  topic map 2026-08-14 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Verify Hirsch's forensic critique, the 'data alteration and manipulation' quote, and the Sept 2022 Nature retraction of Dias's room-temperature superconductivity paper against primaries
  capture promoted 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Hirsch's arXiv trouble was two distinct events: administrators withdrew his CSH-fraud paper in December 2021, and he was separately banned from posting in February 2022
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Hirsch modeled his CSH-fraud critique on a 2009 Debessai et al. europium paper he argues is a confirmed precedent case of data alteration
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Hirsch and van der Marel's 2022 technical analysis concludes CSH's reported susceptibility data are a smoothly-varying spline plus a quantized artifact, not a genuine background subtraction
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Nature's 2022 retraction notice for the Dias carbonaceous-sulfur-hydride paper cites an undisclosed, non-standard background-subtraction procedure
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Formula 1 cars generate documented peak lateral g-forces of 'over 5G' at corner apexes, per the sport's own teams
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · motorsport, physics, biomechanics, breast-health
• The 2019 SI kilogram redefinition was underpinned by counting atoms in near-perfect enriched silicon-28 spheres to determine the Avogadro constant
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · metrology, physics, SI-units, measurement-history, avogadro-constant
• The Avogadro Project's silicon-28 spheres are so round that at Earth's scale their surface would deviate only 3–5 meters
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · metrology, physics, materials, measurement-history, avogadro-constant
• Gravity Probe B measured Earth's frame-dragging at 37.2 ± 7.2 mas/yr, matching general relativity's 39.2 mas/yr prediction
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · physics, general-relativity, frame-dragging, gravity-probe-b, metrology
• Hopfield's 1982 associative memory is a system of Ising spins whose retrieval dynamics minimize an energy function borrowed from spin-glass physics
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, associative-memory, spin-glass, ising-model, physics
• John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for the artificial-neural-network architecture, framed by the committee as a physics object
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, hinton, nobel-prize, history-of-ml, physics
• Ning Li and Douglas Torr's 1991 Physical Review D paper models a superconductor's passive response to an external gravitomagnetic field; the field-generating 'antigravity' claim belongs to their later, unread 1992–1994 papers
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, ning-li
• Superconductor-based antigravity effects have never been independently replicated; the vault's original '2011 Boulder Physical Review Letters' attribution is unconfirmed — the actual 2011 primary is Martin Tajmar's own team re-testing its own apparatus
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, replication
• Thermoluminescence dating, developed at Oxford in the 1960s, became a commercial forgery detector for antiquities a generation after chemistry unmasked van Meegeren
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-authentication, physics
• Does Hopfield's 1982 energy function derive specifically from the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick spin-glass model?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, spin-glass, ising-model, physics, history-of-ml
• What do the primary sources say about Ning Li's 1991 gravitomagnetic proposal and its 2011 replication?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · physics, antigravity, superconductivity, replication, verification
• The h-index inventor became science's fraud-hunting forensic mathematician
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, bibliometrics, research-integrity, physics, fraud-detection
• A CSIRO optician's hand-feel for nanometers helped redefine the kilogram
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · metrology, physics, craftsmanship, measurement-history, SI-units
• The antigravity physicist inside the 2026 'dead scientists' conspiracy theory
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · fringe-science, conspiracy-theory, physics, nasa, defense-funding
• Jorge Hirsch, the h-index's inventor, used data-pattern forensics to help force the retraction of Ranga Dias's room-temperature superconductivity claim
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist, invented the h-index in 2005 as a single number for an individual scientist's output
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, h-index, hirsch, research-assessment
• Verify Hirsch's forensic critique, the 'data alteration and manipulation' quote, and the Sept 2022 Nature retraction of Dias's room-temperature superconductivity paper against primaries
  question open 2026-07-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch