[neutralino]

Originally Posted by purveyor of knowledge which journals do you consider to be big and reputable and how do you make your judgement call?

Erm.. anything published by either the IOP or the AIP. Also if one searches on SPIRES and comes up with the article, then it's fairly safe to say that the respective journals are reputable. I'd need to read the actual paper to say for certain, but I'm guessing that, if the author mentions some sort of anti-gravity device, then it is not that credible.

Excellent Neutralino! But common doctrine says that photons have 0 rest mass. In principle can we say however that photons should have a rest mass that is, in effect, infinitely small? And if so would this be the higgs boson. For how can an object have relativistic mass if it does not have at least a little bit of rest mass? It would violate principle would it not?

I've also never said that a photon has any rest mass. It is possible for a particle to have zero rest mass, but still have some energy, and thus curve spacetime. If you attribute any amount of rest mass to the photon, then you must dispense of special relativity: a theory that has been tested and verified time and time again.