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There has been much speculation over the years about artificial gravity, how to produce it and what it’s going to be used for. But now, teenage mathematician Maxwell Weisenberg has developed a formula that takes artificial gravity out of the realm of speculation and puts it firmly in realistic expectations.

Weisenberg, who at 15 is the youngest ever undergraduate at esteemed Boston-based university TPUV (Theory, Possibility, Understanding and Verification), has proposed that by the year 2027 artificial gravity will be in the hands of the most esteemed theoretical physicists in the world. Space travel will be more functional, which in turn means that recreational space visits might become more common, in turn eventually leading to the colonization of the solar system’s more inhabitable moons and planets.

Attempts to create an anti-graviton machine have failed in the past, as scientists such as Howler, Smith-Johnson and Franc have fallen short of the correct mathematical formula. When questioned on how we was able to correctly identify what repels matter to create artificial gravity, Weisenberg said, “It was simply a matter of switching three variables in the original formula first hypothesized by Lister Franc,” continuing on to say that artificial gravity has been his principle interest “since I was a wee lad of just four years old.”

First decried as nothing but sheer science fiction fantasy, artificial gravity has been a distant possibility in the minds of citizens for almost 100 years and is only now coming to fruition, although there are still several more years of development before it can become a practical application. TPUV students are working continuously to prove Weisenberg’s theory correct, headed by the Department of Theoretical Physics and Control’s Lead Master Technician, Lucia Zahlner. “We are working closely with another department within TPUV to build an anti-graviton device that, with Weisenberg’s formula, will help prove the theory that repelling matter within a controlled environment creates an artificial gravity that will be useful to not only future space travel, but perhaps within the medical field, as well,” says Zahlner.

Weisenberg graduated from the Michigan School of Physics at age 10, and has been a student at TPUV for the last five years. “I will continue to work on artificial gravity as long as it takes,” says Weisenberg, “even if it lasts the rest of my lifetime.”