The Long and Short of It: The Antigravity Stone of Tufts University

The tale of Roger Babson (1875-1967) and the war he waged on gravity.
Primary sources and interesting links:
The Gravity Research Foundation: www.gravityres... Their page includes background on the Foundation's start: www.gravityres...
Babson's essay, "Gravity -- Our Enemy Number One": www.physicsfor...
The New Boston Historical Society's website was a tremendous help in making this video. Their page on the Foundation features an article by David Brooks originally published in the Nashua Telegraph (originally written in 1998, with an update in 2001), and this was a source of many excellent details: www.newbostonhi...
Stephen Hawking's prizewinning essay from 1971: static1.square...
The Tufts Institute of Cosmology page: as.tufts.edu/p...
Article with a good overview on Babson's connection to universities and the gravity stones: www.amusingpla...
Local article on the Dogtown Boulders experience: www.wbur.org/n...
A guide to exploring Dogtown: www.thedacrons....
The song over the final sequence is my rendition of "Hard Cider," by Jerry Bryant: jerrybryantsin...

[@matthewtimmins3573]

Fascinating! I love these "Long and Short" videos. Well done and thank you!

[@inatangle]

truly brilliant, April; I loved it! Amazing that you suffer the demise of two loved ones to drowning and decide that your enemy is .... gravity. But wow! What a lot of threads you pull together (because BABSON pulled them all together)! The Dogtown Stones! Babson College! That essay contest! So much fun--thank you.

[@e.j.barnes1517]

So...thinking about how anti-gravity would rescue potential drowning victims: Would it raise up the person, or lift up all the water out of the body of water and expose the person?

[@maiamccormick]

You're a delight, did you know??

[@HumanCatfoodDispenser]

Let me know if you want tontalk with folks involved with the Institute of Cosmology sometime!