Posted on 09/08/2001 1:05:48 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester
By Bradley Perrett
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. military may have conducted serious research into anti-gravity based on Nazi studies, a top defense journalist suggests in a new book.
In ``The Hunt for Zero Point,'' journalist Nick Cook says, based on a decade's research, he believes by the 1950s the U.S. was seriously working on anti-gravity ``electrogravitics'' technology, which would lift and propel vehicles without wings or thrust.
``I feel intuitively that some vehicle has been developed, particularly given that there is this wealth of scientific data out there, and the Americans have never been slow to pick up on this sort of science,'' Cook, the aerospace consultant for Jane's Defense Weekly, told Reuters in an interview.
Cook uncovered reports and sightings of a Nazi research device that had been hidden in a remote part of Poland, where it had apparently been supplied with great quantities of electricity -- which an electrogravitic experiment would require.
Curiously, barely a hint of such Nazi research appeared after the war, suggesting that whoever captured it -- probably the United States -- immediately stamped it ``secret,'' he said.
Cook noted that, as a respected expert, he is risking his reputation by writing seriously about a technology associated with UFOs, which most scientists dismiss as science fiction embraced by ``hocus-pocus'' believers.
The United States is known to have a huge budget for so called ``black projects,'' because it spends more on defense than can be accounted for by adding up the value of public programs.
Cook admitted he cannot produce a conclusive case. But that is the nature of black projects, in which even the workers usually have no idea what they are working on.
In 1947, amid the early craze of UFO reports, an air force general reported on the possibility of the United States building disc-shaped objects with extreme rates of climb and maneuverability but without noise or evident propulsion.
In the mid 1950s electrogravitics was the subject of a few press reports, including one that described work by most of the United States' major defense contractors, Cook reported.
And then it all went quiet -- just as stealth technology suddenly disappeared from view in the mid 1970s, only to re-emerge as operational aircraft in the late 1980s.
Academic papers on the subject have mysteriously disappeared from libraries.
There is still no firm evidence that electrogravitics is more than science fiction. Civilian scientists and amateurs have experimented with it, and while some have reported success, no one seems to have reproduced their results to prove that it works.
I have a need for a magnetic insulator for an invention of mine. If you know of one, please advise.Is it the advice of a physicist you seek - or an engineering solution?
Since there is no such thing as a magnetic current, I don't understand what you could mean by a "magnetic insulator".
I'm not sure what your problem is, here. Is it that you don't understand how spacetime can have a curvature, or that you don't believe that if you start with flat spacetime and induce a curvature, it will quantitatively and qualitatively exhibit every feature of a gravitational field, down to its last measurable detail?
Scientists at Scotch, Memorex, BASF and TDK say they've stopped sound: Speed of sound is zero.
Well, as it is a practical and potentially real invention, a real, rather than theoretical solution would be preferred.
Well, as it is a practical and potentially real invention, a real, rather than theoretical solution would be preferred.... then you need to seek out an engineer rather than a physicist (no offense to physicists or "Physicist") ...
WOW - _Jim, you may have just made up for all the hastles you have given me over the past few years. Thanks a bunch.
Now, if I can just find a 'gravity insulator', it would be perfect.
As I said, physics is not my area of expertice, but I do find it fascinating.
I remember what you are talking about. There were also some preliminary designs for super jumbo transports (600 ft wing spans) and bombers, which could fly on nuclear power plants for months.
However, it may have been after 3-mile Island, I don't remember exactly when, perhaps in the 50's or 60's, but someone finally figured out that the planes might 'crash'. So the whole idea was dropped.
Explain to me what you think an insulator does.
And this is what I need for my commute. OK, I was just looking for a cheap excuse to link this somewhere. It's a really cool mpeg of a jet fighter breaking the sound barrier, up close.
There is some speculation that the B-2 has a small nuclear reactor onboard, that suposedly powers an electrogravity system that reduces the mass of the plane and payload by 89%. See here
It's not every day that you see people speculating to two significant digits.
As far as the b-2 - being electrogravinometric, I seriously doubt that. it is 1970's-early 80's technology. And as far as airmen being electrocuted, that may be. All aircraft build up charges of static electricity and the first thing a ground crew does after landing and chocking the wheels is to ground the plane. As the b-2 has some special coatings, it may be quite possible that it becomes a giant super capacitor.
As for thermal insulators and conductors, they are totally different things from electrical insulators and conductors. They work according to different physical principles. A diamond is a lousy electrical conductor, but there is no better thermal conductor.
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