IFFE Experiments Closed Down
Mitch Beedie reports
UK?s only superconducting anti-gravity project closes amid recriminations LONDON 04/04/04.
The UK?s only Government sponsored research project on antigravity has closed for lack of funding. The IFFE (Invisible Force Field Experiment) project, headed by researchers Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou, last year successfully created an impenetrable force field in The New Forest (Hampshire, England). Governmental scientific budget cuts have however blocked the half million pound investment that commercial development would have required.
Invisible Force Fields In Science Fiction
By Dr. Roger Sabin
In the world of physics, the term ‘force field’ has several specific definitions – exactly the definitions that the IFFE team are seeking to clarify and expand. In science fiction, however, ‘force field’ has tended to mean an invisible wall of resistance, commonly a protective shield. As such, it has taken on connotations drawn from martial arts – its special characteristic is that it can soak up the energy of an attacking foe and repel it back on itself. In this way, bullets, death rays and other dangers have their kinetic energy dissipated and neutralised. It’s an attractive idea, and invisible force fields have had a way of re-asserting themselves as a serious element of SF storytelling in pulp magazines, comics, novels, film and TV shows.
Andy Sawyer keynote speech
Delivered by Andy Sawyer, University of Liverpool
at Science Fiction(s): A Study Day on Science Fiction Film, Television, Literature and New Media , University of Nottingham, Friday, 19th August 2005
1: Recently, two unorthodox scientists, Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou, began experiments with antigravity and other force fields, intending to create an impenetrable barrier around the ArtSway centre in Hampshire. An investigation into the project by the Scientific Accident Investigation Group (Southern England Division) suggests that certain anomalies need to be the subject of further enquiries. Relationships between the two had broken down, and what exactly happened during a crucial period of 45 minutes is not on record. Hollington and Kyprianou are still at large, possibly developing separate laboratories in Europe.
Conflicts In London
the Others, Stoke Newington UK April -7th May 2006 Artists: Simon Fowler, Hollington and Kyprianou, Sujon Jang, Ali Tareen, Mike Tomlinson
