What is happening at JSC?

Sorry for abandoning Math so soon. It is temporary, I promise. For the moment, I have to discuss another -possible- dead end. Which maybe it is not. I don't know yet. Media hype? Likely.

JSC stands for Johnson Space Center, which is one out of the 17 centers NASA has in the States.

I have heard some noise in the internet since September in sites like Gizmodo and Space.com about a JSC's scientist who claim feasibility of warping spacetime under certain specifications. Reliable science news, unfortunately, doesn't come from news sources, so I decided to wait a little before start looking for info.

Aerial view of JSC in 1989 -a long time ago, I know-. (Source: wikipedia)

Rotating superconductors. A dead end?

First time I heard about these, was back in 2006. And it seemed promising. It is a simple concept: Einstein says energy or matter warps spacetime. Why don't we modify matter in order to alter somehow spacetime?

Obviously, harvesting energy as I have pointed out previously is not going to be enough.

So, is it possible to have a "weird" state of matter which gives us more juice for warping porpuses? The idea is quite attractive, because Einstein was an open enemy of quantum theory, and this branch of physics has evolved a lot since Einstein's first days.

 

Experimental ARC Seibersdorf 2006 setup (photo from ESA web)