Lankan Research Scientist pioneers major Scientific breakthrough
View(s):In what could be a major scientific breakthrough, Sri Lankan research scientist Dr Gamini Piyadasa claims to have found clear evidence to support the existence of a force against gravity.
“The general belief being that the gravitational force is always attractive and no repulsive force could result from it. This is contrary to properties of electric and magnetic forces, which both have positive and negative charges, and can cause attraction and repulsion,” said Dr Piyadasa, speaking in his laboratory in Colombo. “Therefore, logically speaking, if gravity can attract, why can’t it repel?” he asked.
Dr Piyadasa’s research on the so-far elusive “Antigravity” phenomenon involved studying the upward mobility of iodine molecules in a vacuum. “In this study, the iodine molecules, which undergo a change of state/phase transition to gaseous, by acquiring heat, have shown a movement against the gravitational force. In this same study, the upward movement, against the gravitational pull, of very heavy metallic substances such as Tungsten/Thorium, in vacuum, has also been shown,” he explained.
The fundamental experiments in this regard were conducted at the University of Colombo, with further studies at the University of Manitoba (UoM), Canada.
The research scientist built a vacuum deposition chamber, where a layer of iodine was slowly heat-evaporated (ejected in a downward direction) inside the vacuum chamber. An electrical heater plate covered the iodine emission directly to the upward direction. The iodine source was surrounded with a paper jacket to capture the deposition geometry of the iodine.
“We expect gravity to act on the molecules and pull them downward, and not up, especially, as the molecules are in a vacuum, which should make them deposit themselves on the lower part of the encircled paper,” he said. “However, when heating/evaporation of the iodine was attempted, we observed a deposition of iodine on the upper part of the paper,” Dr Piyadasa explained.
He claimed that, the analysis on rising and falling water-droplets in still air, affords clear evidence to speculate the existence of an antigravity force. “It is possible that the antigravity, the force against gravity, may not be strong enough as the gravity force normally encountered around us,” he added.
He added that, this property may be the reason why a force as antigravity appears to be elusive. However, the duality in gravitation is not a far-fetched idea, though it may appear so at first sight.
“Further, Physicists, over the years, have attempted to forge a unified theory for all types of energy. In this context too, the antigravity concept is worthy of consideration.”
The experimental work was conducted at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UoM. Dr Piyadasa was supported by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada. The initial stage of this research was funded by the Sri Lanka National Science Foundation. Duplication of the experiments was conducted and supported by the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology.
Dr Piyadasa’s research into antigravity has now been published in the Canadian Journal in Pure & Applied Sciences and another Canadian journal; Physics Essays.
Dr. Piyadasa holds a Ph.D. in Instrumentation in laser desorption mass spectrometry from the University of Uppsala (UoU), Sweden. He is a recipient of many awards including Presidential Award for Innovation, International Invention Award from Switzerland and 3 Fellowships for the UoU, UoM and the National Science Foundation. He has patents under his name including the patent for Precursor ion selection in tandem time-of-flight Mass Spectrometer. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Codegen (Pvt) Ltd. In Colombo. He can be contacted on (gaminickg@gmail.com).