Gravity awareness experiments you may like to try at home
Nick Summers
19th Dec 2005
The following three diagrams illustrate gravity experiments that should really be done in order. You can skip experiment No1 as that has been verified and an excellent video and explanation can be seen at www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/foobar/
You need to read the Fourmilab webpage to get a feel for what is going on.
The earth exhibits gravitational anomalies near mountain ranges and deep ocean trenches. For more information on this see
www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/publications/fact_sheet/3.html
For an explanation of what is expected to happen you need to think of the large static lead rods as behaving like vacuum cleaners. The only difference to a vacuum cleaner is that they are sucking in a form of energy instead of air. It is the movement of this gravitational energy which imparts a force on the suspended weights. The effect is not too dissimilar to that predicted by Lense Thirring.
In the centre of the diagram there is a 'washer' magnet, a cross section of which is shown in black. This is spinning at high speed. With a powerful enough superconductive magnet and spinning at high speed an energy vortex occurs as shown in green.
The energy gradient in this vortex region will alter the local gravitational force. The effect is most noticeable during the build up or decay of the vortex.
This is obviously a very simplified version of the apparatus and is just to show the principle. For more information on the Podkletnov Effect see www.americanantigravity.com/podkletnov.html
See, also, an article written in the New Scientist, 5 Jan 2006, where Heim, Dröscher and Häuser suggest that ...
| "A spinning ring and a strong magnetic field could produce a repulsive anti-gravity force” |
and finally, see Gravitational Properties of Superconductors by Austrian scientist, Martin Tajmar.
The idea here is to pass a laser beam through the outside edge of a glass disc or cylinder that is able to rotate at speed. At a reasonably long distance away is a reflecting mirror which sends the beam back to a target in the vicinity of the disc.
The position of the beam is noted when the disc is at rest and when it is rotating. The deflection will be consistent with the 'Fresnel drag coefficient' repeatedly established by experiments and notably confirmed by Fizeau in 1848 - see www.paradox-paradigm.nl/The%20experiment%20of%20Fizeau.htm
The atomic particles which make up the glass disc partially drag the local energy field along with them as the disc rotates (frame-dragging), which in turn deflects the beam.
Obviously, spinning a glass disc at high speed runs the risk of serious injury and shouldn't be attempted without ensuring adequate safety precautions.
The Michelson-Morley experiment.
In the latter half of the 18th century there existed the belief in the presence of a weightless invisible fluid pervading space. This was known as the aether and hundreds of experiments were done to try and determine its existence with increasingly accurate equipment. A good historical background can be found at http://renshaw.teleinc.com/papers/fizeau/fizeau.stm. Further research was done by Dayton Miller from 1902 to 1933, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Miller where he published positive results for the existence of the aether but mainstream physics has generally accepted that it does not exist.
However, the experiments were based on the premise that the earth was travelling through the aether so light travelling in the same direction as our orbit round the sun would be expected to show a different speed to light travelling at rightangles to this path. There was no difference. Not surprisingly, as this so-called aether is travelling downwards towards the centre of the earth - we are not travelling through it. For information on the Michelson-Morley experiment see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment
This website attempts to link gravity with an aether-like massless fluid which I refer to as the third state of energy.
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