Anyone read a good science fiction story "Noise Level" -- the military fakes the crash and burning of a one-man levitation belt, killing the inventor during a poorly filmed video -- a great physicist is put to work, leading a lavishly funded team to rediscover the lost effect.
He finds that the inventor's lab is a complete chaos of equipment, junk, and cryptic notes. Nothing makes the slightest sense. After months of fruitless chasing after dead ends, he wakes from a troubled sleep, with a vague dream inspiration that there could be a subtle violation of conservation of energy. He ends up with a new paradigm for physics. After a year more and billions of dollars, his demo features a device weighing 10,000 tons and using the power of a city to rise up 3 cm for a minute. Then the "dead" inventor walks on stage -- an actor hired to help make the fake movie to inspire the best people to undertake an arduous search with an initial high random noise level of information, freeing their minds of preconceptions.
