Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Hobbs Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: anti-gravity? Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:31:17 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:31:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f5a4a7c9aef6ce6bd99dd0199713a0a6"; logging-data="502615"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19KlrIlgAc5llied3HU9oiM" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iOgBZrS2SWfBygzTDOPSIDz1bKE= sha1:o3+Ez1T5C/rZoHbrrWKGVipKNdY= Bytes: 4248 Joe Gwinn wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:35:27 +0100, Martin Brown > <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 21/04/2024 01:11, Phil Hobbs wrote: >>> John Larkin wrote: >>>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:31:19 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> jim whitby wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:19:30 -0000 (UTC), jim whitby wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Looking for opinion of persons better educatrd than myself. >>>>>> I do know how to spell... most of the time. educatded >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> . that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat- > earths-gravity/> >>>> >>>> Then it should float in mid-air, or accelerate upward. So why does it >>>> need to be tested in space? > > Vacuum to get rid of corona. > > Space (orbit really) so tiny forces can be detected and measured. > > A steady one G acceleration would be pretty impressive, and would > settle the issue. > > >> To avoid embarrassment when it doesn't actually work as claimed! >>> >>> There’s no gravity gravy train if it gets debunked on the first day. >>> What’s the use of that? >> >> >> Surely it is yet another standard pump and dump models for dodgy fringe >> science IPOs much like the LENR scams that have been around for decades. >> >> Some genuine engineers who didn't properly understand the physics of >> gyroscopes have famously announced their anti gravity machines. >> >> Most notably one Eric Laithwaite who once gave the Royal Institution >> Xmas Lectures in 1966 on magnetic levitation and linear motors before he >> quite literally went off the rails in 1974. >> >> >> >> Great communicator with the public but not very good at physics. > > Yeah. Investment not recommended. > > As for our asymmetrical capacitor fellow, there has to be some big > errors in the derivation. I watched part of his lecture, where he did > note that this force endured even when the HV was turned off, and that > it should therefore accelerate continuously. Which it doesn't, > despite his theory. He knew that this was a problem, but figured that > it was fixable. Hmm. > > That fellow reminds me of the inventor I met, described in the SED > thread "Non-Inertial Navigation Technology" (July 2020). That company > still exists, and he still toils away. I don't know where the money > comes from. > > Joe Gwinn > And then there was the Dean drive, which worked by rattling a mass back and forth inside a vehicle. The tabletop demo went perfectly. ;) Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics