Posted on 01/04/2003 6:26:20 AM PST by ASA Vet
"Beam Me Up Scotty" Anti-gravity: Fact or Fiction?
Dearborn High video/computer students are the first high school
students in the world to build an "antigravity???" machine for
2002-2003 Metro-Detroit Science Fair.
Yes, you can say impossible. Yes, you can say it defies Newton's
3rd law of gravity. Yes, you can say it's done with smoke and
mirrors. Nevertheless three teenage Dearborn High students,
Luke Duncan, 16, Ethan Rein, 17, and Jim Bergren, 16, built and flew
an "antigravity???" aircraft last Sunday in the school video/computer studio.
It has no fans, no jets, and no engines. It makes no sound, and
yet it flies. In fact the first time that the students flew the
craft it went up so fast and high that in future flights the
craft had to be tethered or it just kept going up and up.
The only power that is supplied to the beam ship is a thin electrical
conducting wire that connects to the fuselage of the
balsa wood and aluminum foil craft.
At first the students thought that it was working on a theory
called the ion wind, whereby electrons fly through the air
displacing air molecules thereby creating a small wind effect.
Yet recently a similar craft was built at Purdue University and
put in a vacuum chamber but it still flew. Oops, there goes
another theory.
The students have been working via phone and internet with
physicists and inventors all over the world to help them with
their project including the Russian physicist Dr. Podkletnov who
now lives in Finnland, The French Inventor Jean-Louis Naudin,
American inventor Russell Anderson, President of Applied Electrogravitics,
American Antigravity's Tim Ventura, their teacher Mr. Russ Gibb,
Michigan Technology Teacher of the Year 2000,
as well as many other people who have been building and working on lifters for years.
Please note, that many respected investigators of the antigravity phenomenon dispute that
beamship/lifter technology is an antigravity phenomen and say outright that it is not antigravity.
Students Luke, Jim, and Ethan say
"We don't know for sure what causes the craft to fly
and are simply investigated the different theories."
Interestingly, this year is the 100-year anniversary of the
Wright brothers first flight and also in the early 1900s, Nikola
Tesla, the electrical genius, and physicist George S. Piggot
were doing experiments on anti-gravity.
If you would like to see the craft take off and fly visit www.wdhsvideo.org
The article doesn't mention thrust. It's not powered at all, apparently. So if it works, it's something else. I'd put it near a mass detector to see if it's doing something really odd. (Note: In doing a Google for a reference to that device, I discovered that Robert Forward died in September, 2002. I hadn't known that. Good guy.)
BTW.. have you ever seen Michael Moshen? His manipulations using his hands are truly amazing.
Forces from magnetic fields go as a cross product with the field direction, which is perpendicular to the field direction. But for the record, I don't think that's what's going on here.
I know. The point is that the cross product of the field and anything--the direction of your shoelaces, if you like--is going to be perpendicular to the field, so it can't be used to travel along the field.
Did you get the book?
Yes! Thank you very kindly. It was a thoughtful gesture, and much appreciated. I sent a Freep note of thanks to your old screen name, as I didn't know you'd changed. It looks pretty dense, but I'll try to work at least the first chapter into my hopelessly long reading list.
Ask RadioAstronomer, he's seen my backlog. :-)
There is no cause to doubt that photons arriving now from the Sun left 8.3 minutes ago, and arrive at Earth from the direction against the sky that the Sun occupied that long ago. But the analogous situation for gravity is less obvious, and we must always be careful not to mix in the consequences of light propagation delays. Another way (besides aberration) to represent what gravity is doing is to measure the acceleration vector for the Earth's motion, and ask if it is parallel to the direction of the arriving photons. If it is, that would argue that gravity propagated to Earth with the same speed as light; and conversely.
Such measurements of Earth's acceleration through space are now easy to make using precise timing data from stable pulsars in various directions on the sky. Any movement of the Earth in any direction is immediately reflected in a decreased delay in the time of arrival of pulses toward that direction, and an increased delay toward the opposite direction. In principle, Earth's orbit could be determined from pulsar timings alone. In practice, the orbit determined from planetary radar ranging data is checked with pulsar timing data and found consistent with it to very high precision.
How then does the direction of Earth's acceleration compare with the direction of the visible Sun? By direct calculation from geometric ephemerides fitted to such observations, such as those published by the U.S. Naval Observatory or the Development Ephemerides of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Earth accelerates toward a point 20 arc seconds in front of the visible Sun, where the Sun will appear to be in 8.3 minutes. In other words, the acceleration now is toward the true, instantaneous direction of the Sun now, and is not parallel to the direction of the arriving solar photons now. This is additional evidence that forces from electromagnetic radiation pressure and from gravity do not have the same propagation speed. [emphasis added]
Well, there's something else I wasn't aware of. That makes it about 10 billion things I don't know, and the list keeps growing. It seems like such "lifters" would make dandy desktop ornaments, etc. We should be seeing a lot of them around, if they consistently work.
January 2003 : A 5 meters wide Lifter has been built and tested successfully by the Professor Saburo Yokokura and the students (Takayuki Muroi, Takanori Haraguchi) from the Meisei University of Japan. . This big Lifter has done a stable hovering at 15 meters above the ground. The voltage used during this experiment was 41 KV DC and the current 10.7 mA. The weight has not yet been measured due to the big size of this device.
I built one of these lifters.
***I’m following up on some electrogravitics readings and was wondering if you have any published findings on what you built?
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