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.
The experiment is predicated upon the following assumptions:
1). If you drop a piece of buttered toast, it will always land buttered-side down.
2). A falling cat will always land on its feet.
Therefore, to prove the existence of anti-gravtiy, strap a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) on the back of a cat. Hold the cat a few feet off the floor, and let him go. The buttered toast, which MUST land buttered-side down, will be counter-acted by the falling cat, which MUST land feet-first. Since both of these events cannot occur simultaneously, proponents of the theory believe the cat and the toast would simply spin in the air indefinitely.
The Hilbert space of spherical harmonics.
Yes. That's what I vaguely remember you posting lo those many months ago!
Yes, this one is worthy of inclusion in the FAQ.
Thanks again for the lucid and concise explanation. I
You know that the guys in the Math Department spontaneously genuflect whenever they hear than name, don't you?
Oh this is simple - it's a perceptual effect.
LOL........made me shoot coffee through my nose :-)
The smartest weren't Nazi's, though, and if you wish to visit thier post-war home, take a trip to Huntsville, Alabama and check.
Just to answer the unasked question ("how does an Hilbert space differ from a generic vector space?"), an Hilbert space is a vector space (with an inner product defined on it) which is complete.
Completeness is the property that every convergent sequence of vectors (Cauchy sequence - [please genuflect NOW!]) in the vector space will converge to a vector that is also an element of the space.
The usual example given to illustrate completeness is to consider the infinite convergent sequence:
[3, 3.1, 3.14, 3.1415, 3.14159, ....]
of decimal approximations of pi. Clearly it converges on the value of pi, which is irrational, while every term in the sequence is rational; thus, it is clear that the Rational numbers are not complete (as the Rationals don't contain pi, which is the limit of the convergent sequence), but the Real numbers are (as it contains both the Rationals AND the Irrationals, hence, all convergent sequences of Reals will converge on a value that is also Real.)
In Hilbert Spaces [please genuflect again], the elements (vectors) of the space are often functions instead of numbers, and so one finds that a convergent sequence of such functions converges to a function that is also a vector in the space, and thus Hilbert Spaces [one last time, thank you] are said to be complete.
As electricity and magnetism are well known, what are they? We have an insulator for electricity, do we have an insulator for magnetism?
So what is the the 'theory of gravity'?
So what is the the 'theory of gravity'? And, have we developed an insulator for gravity?
At this point, Cultural Jihad has the best answer to me, however, that doesn't mean it is the final answer, it simply means that we don't know yet. And personally, I feel, that if it is knowable, some day man will know.
An unrelated concept is Dilbert Spaces. Those are environments in which all your bosses are dumber than you are but your dog is far smarter.
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