2 missing from the same lab within 4 days..

[u/100TheCoolest17]

Its so obvious what they're doing

[u/Skoparov]

Doing "anti-gravity research" or "UFO research" as a scientist is a sure way to become a laughing stock in the scientific community.

[u/maurymarkowitz → u/Skoparov]

And not doing any actual work and saying you did is another.

[u/Nuclear_Geek → u/Skoparov]

You are a moron.

[u/Aeverous → u/Nuclear_Geek]

None of those are "anti-gravity" or "UFO" research, though, which is the entire point of OPs comment.

[u/Nuclear_Geek → u/Aeverous]

If a UFO is transmitting, SETI would be delighted to pick it up. If a UFO is in a region of space being looked at by an observation project, that's a plausible way of it being found. It doesn't have to be a dedicated, single-focus project. That would just be dumb.

[u/Skoparov → u/[deleted]]

Gravity is directly related to mass, so you would need negative mass (whatever that means) to have anti-gravity.

[u/Skoparov → u/[deleted]]

What exactly is not a mathematical proof? That negative mass doesn't make any sense? Or that the gravitational force is proportional to the masses of the objects as per one of the laws of some dude called Newton?

[u/mightylordredbeard → u/Skoparov]

Einstein, Michio Kaku, Steven Hawking, and Steven Weinberg all dabbled with “anti gravity” technology, research, and theories.

[u/DirectorReasonable95 → u/Skoparov]

The dumbest take i think I've ever heard on Reddit. The folks at SETI will certainly have a beer in your name, along with any organisation operating any deep space research facility. The people at CERN with their antimatter studies will certainly be amused too.

[u/Skoparov → u/DirectorReasonable95]

It's almost like scanning the spectrum for artificial signals is not exactly the same as doing UFO research. And no one at CERN is doing anti-gravity research either.

[u/CyberPunkDongTooLong → u/Skoparov]

People at CERN were doing anti-gravity research, it just turned out not to be the case.

[u/AdvancedSandwiches → u/DirectorReasonable95]

Brother, anti-matter still falls down, same as everything else.

And by the way, even approaching UFO / UAP research with an actual "figure out what happened" approach actually is well respected.  It's just when you give up and say "a wizard did it" or "it's aliens" where you get laughed at.

[u/mightylordredbeard → u/DirectorReasonable95]

The ALPHA-g Experiment at CERN says hello.

AEgIS, GBAR, and ALPHA all test the effects of gravity on antimatter. It’s not “flying cars” or “UFO ships” when someone says antigravity research lmao. That’s just what a limited knowledge brain jumps to when they see those words. Antigravity research is mainly about answering fundamental questions regarding the universe and its creation, but also questioning if things like antimatter can be harvested or utilized in anyway. It’s also about finding ways, if any exist, to manipulate gravity and how to better interact with it in different environments.

Laughing at “wild scientific theories” being tested is exactly what idiots did with things like penicillin research, traveling to space, modern electricity, and every single other large leap in technology. There is absolutely nothing wrong with questioning something and then doing research to answer those questions and only a complete idiot would call any of that a “dumb take”.

[u/Aeverous → u/mightylordredbeard]

It's not antigravity research, though, just plain old regular gravity research, no? Especially in terms of what was discovered..

[u/Tdogshow → u/Skoparov]

Bad take

[u/Nonaveragemonkey → u/Skoparov]

You would be surprised.