Etherial Electrogravitics
1. MODERN ETHER DRIFT EXPERIMENT:
A. Brillet and J.L. Hall conducted a modern ether drift
experiment in 1979. Brillet and Hall put a laser on a rotating
platform and split the beam. One part of the beam went into a
Fabry-Perot interferometer, the other was directed via mirrors off the
platform to be compared with a reference beam from a stationary laser.
The frequency of the rotating laser was compared with that of the
reference laser; the difference was
Fourier analyzed. Any anisotropy of the speed of light would show up
as a frequency shift which varied dependent on the direction of the
interferometer. If the old pre-Lorentz ether theory were true (static
ether), they would have found a frequency shift dependent on sidereal
direction of the interferometer and found no such effect.
They also found a frequency shift of 17 Hz at twice the
table rotation rate, which they could not explain on direction of
interferometer with respect to the lab. It is this effect which is
predicted by an entrained ether theory.
An entrained ether theory favors a dynamic ether, an
ether that can be entrained in motion by a rotating object, such as
earth, embedded within the dynamic ether.
2. ETHER EXPLANATIONS:
If a velocity-dependent medium such as the ether could
be established by experiment, then it could open the door to
alternative explanations to SR and GR regarding physical phenomena.
If this ether is quantized, then we could explore the theoretical
nature of a quantum ether. Is gravity a result of some state of the
quantum ether?
Does the quantum ether explain inertia? What does an
electric or magnetic field do to the state of the quantum ether? Are
material particles some wave-state of the quantum ether? Can we unify
physical principles by considering a quantum ether?
3. EXPERIMENTING WITH LIGHT:
A test of light speed could be made if some object
holding a measuring device could accelerate to some sizable fraction
of light speed, say .5c, and test the speed of an electromagnetic
emission from this object through space to a reflection point and back
to the object from the reference frame of the moving object.
Also, Bryan Wallace delivered a paper on the 1961
measurements of the distance of Venus using radar. Wallace claims
that the inconsistencies in the measurements are not supportive of SR,
but support a C+v velocity for the radar signal. Perhaps a review of
this data, and further refined experiments could determine if the data
is consistent with SR or
Galilean addition of velocities.
4. SPACE DRIVES:
Why is it important to determine the nature of the ether
of space and time? One obvious answer is to determine whether we
could find new ways to travel through space or time. The most common
solution offered in the past has been to use hyperspatial dimensions
to cross enormous distances that separate stellar systems. While it
is true that space could harbor more than three dimensions, and time
could be enfolded from greater than one dimension, the energy
dimensions of ether have yet to be explored.
NASA is now interested in breakthrough physics, on new
solutions to space travel, on dispensing with rocket propellants and
finding new sources of energy, and on theoretical means for breaking
the light barrier.
If the light barrier can be broken by some sort of
inertial drive, a drive that changes the resistance of the ether,
reducing that resistance in a forward direction, then the velocity of
an object may, indeed, exceed the measured velocity of light. In
actual fact, if the properties of weight and mass can be nullified by
application of electromagnetic forces to the ether in the vicinity of
our test object, the object may be propelled without inertial lag and
"g" forces to reach incredible speeds with the slightest expenditure
of energy.
5. EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTROGRAVITICS:
According to the Air Force Manual from Wright-Patterson
AFB on Electrogravitics we have this description on the Thomas
Townsend Brown discovery.
Electrogravitics might be described as a synthesis of
electrostatic energy used for propulsion - either vertical propulsion
or horizontal or both - and gravitics, or dynamic counterbary, in
which energy is also used to set up a local gravitational force
independent of the earth's. Electrostatic energy for propulsion has
been predicted as a possible means of propulsion in space when the
thrust from a neutron motor or ion motor would be sufficient in a
dragless environment to produce astronomical velocities. But the ion
motor is not strictly a part of the science of electrogravitics,
since barycentric control in an electrogravitics system is envisaged
for a vehicle operating within the earth's environment and it is not
seen initially for space application. Probably large scale space
operations would have to await the full development of
electrogravitics to enable large pieces of equipment to be moved out
of the region of the earth's strongest gravity effects. So, though
electrostatic motors were thought of in 1925, electrogravitics had its
birth after the War, when Townsend Brown sought to improve on the
various proposals that then existed for electrostatic motors
sufficiently to produce some visible manifestation of sustained
motion. Whereas earlier electrostatic tests were essentially pure
research, Brown's rigs were aimed from the outset at producing a
flying article. As a private venture he produced evidence of motion
using condensers in a couple of saucers suspended by arms rotating
round a central tower with input running down the arms. The massive-k
situation was summarized subsequently in a report, Project
Winterhaven, in 1952. Using the data some conclusions were arrived at
that might be expected from ten or more years of intensive
development - similar to that, for instance, applied
to the turbine engine. Using a number of assumptions as to the nature
of gravity, the report postulated a saucer as the basis of a possible
interceptor with Mach 3 capability. Creation of a local gravitational
system would confer upon the fighter the sharp-edged changes of
direction typical of motion in space.
The essence of electrogravitics thrust is the use of a
very strong positive charge on one side of the vehicle and a negative
on the other. The core of the motor is a condenser and the ability of
the condenser to hold its charge (the k-number) is the yardstick of
performance. With air as 1, current dielectrical materials can yield 6
and use of barium aluminate can raise this considerably, barium
titanium oxide (a baked ceramic) can offer 6,000 and there is promise
of 30,000, which would be sufficient for supersonic speed.
The original Brown rig produced 30 fps on a voltage of
around 50,000 and a small amount of current in the milliamp range.
There was no detailed explanation of gravity in Project Winterhaven,
but it was assumed that particle dualism in the subatomic structure of
gravity would coincide in its effect with the issuing stream of
electrons from the electrostatic energy source to produce counterbary.
The Brown work probably remains a
realistic approach to the practical realization of electrostatic
propulsion and sustentation. Whatever may be discovered by the Gravity
Research Foundation of New Boston a complete understanding and
synthetic reproduction of gravity is not essential for limited
success. The electrogravitics saucer can perform the function of a
classic lifting surface - it produces a pushing effect on the under
surface and a suction effect on the upper, but, unlike the airfoil, it
does not require a flow of air to produce the effect.
6. AN EXPERIMENT IN MAGNETOGRAVITICS:
The limitation in potential difference achieved by the
Brown apparatus has led some of us involved in gravity research to
consider the use of magnets and magnetic fields.
The basis of this concept in magnetogravitics is the MHD
generator. If a hot gas is seeded with certain elements and the gas
is totally ionized this will produce a plasma in which all nucleons
and electrons are disassociated in a hydrodynamic mixture. This
charged or stratified charged mixture is confined to a volume of space
by bottling it inside a magnetic field. Varying magnetic fields are
also used to deflect cathode rays in television tubes or particle
acclerators. By confining
the charges in a magnetic bottle very high potentials can develop
without dielectric breakdown.
Much is known concerning magnetic flux rotation through
conductors or conduction currents confined by magnetic fields, but
little is known about interacting magnetic fields.
An experiment now being assembled tests the hypothesis
that a homopolar generator, a generator consisting of a coupled
conducting disk and magnet that co-rotates with the armature. Usually
such an apparatus is tapped for high amperage currents. In my
proposal the homopolar generator rotates within a time-varying
magnetic field to increase the potential difference across the radius
of the disk, maintaining this
potential by magnetic confinement of rim charge. A conducting disk of
Alnico with a slightly raised center would be an ideal armature as it
should act as a one-piece homopolar generator.
In previous measurements of spinning homopolar disks,
the center becomes strongly positive and the rim of the disk,
negative. This could be considered an open Brown capacitor that
should exhibit an electrogravity effect. It is also proposed that
measurements should be taken similar to the measurements taken in the
Finnish superconductor weight-reduction
experiments.
7. FUTURE DIRECTIONS:
In effect, electrogravitic or magnetogravitic propulsion
if successfully developed would lead to a novel form of asymmetric
thrust that could be adapted to ground, air, and space transport
systems. Such devices could be energized using fuel cells or possibly
so-called cold fusion cells and revolutionize our entire systems of
transportation. Beyond this we must find means to extend our
exploration of space.