Podkletnov Gravity Device Bill Beaty, 1/97 ------------------------- (Spinning, levitated superconductor disk creates a vertical column of reduced weight above itself) SUGGESTED TESTING: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Suspend the SC disk loosly, measure the strength of the effect, clamp the disk solidly to a tabletop, measure again. If there is a large change, it suggests that mechanical vibration (120hz) is important. If force is a percent of the object's weight, then the force upon a massive object will be large. Instead of applying force to a plastic paddle, apply it to a vertical glass rod. Use steel or lead for greater effect. Hang two vertical rods rods from both ends of a horizontal beam having a fulcrum in the center. Place the device under one rod. Even a tiny percentage difference in weight will result in a large vertical force. Place the device beneath a jar full of alcohol and aluminum powder. Are currents visible in the alcohol? Place it below a pan of water. Bounce sunlight from the water's surface at a small, glancing angle, aim it onto a screen. Is a "dimple" observed in the expanse of reflected light shining on the screen? For a sharper image, use true pointsource light such as a spread-out beam from a laser. Fill the room with incense smoke. Are air currents observed over the device? Quantitative measurements of the effect. Use a solid state accelerometer to measure the decrease in gravity above the device. Convert the vertical gravity beam to AC to make certain measurements easier: place the entire apparatus on the edge of a horizontal disk such as a record player turntable, then spin the turntable. The gravity beam might affect a microphone diaphragm then. Hold a microphone above the spinning turntable, amplify output and apply to headphones, probe the beam with microphone high above the disk. Maybe look for phase lag in the beam high above the spinning disk, to detect whether the "gravity beam" propagates slowly. Run the turntable at 500RPM. Measure the gravity field versus AC drive frequency, AC drive current, magnetic field direction through the HTSC disk, etc. Stack several thin disks, measure the gravity field versus net thickness of the superconductor. Are there any unexpected biological effects? Grow bacteria cultures in the beam, compare to controls. Maintain mice in the beam, look for health effects. Use plants as probes: monitor O2 output in small tissue samples, place the tissue in the beam, observe changes. How fast is onset of the effect? Measure the force with a solid state accelerometer, turn the AC drive on and off, inspect the leading and trailing edges from the accelerometer. Does the effect appear and vanish rapidly or slowly? Does any of the AC drive signal get into the accelerometer output? Map the beam profile. Mechanically raster-scan a tiny accelerometer through the beam, record and plot data. Check out the Hodowanec gravity detector on http://amasci.com/weird/const.html He claims that its output varies on a 24hr cycle, as if there was a *vertical beam* of sensitivity extending vertically from his device! Map the vertical beam profile. Place the device at the bottom of a stairwell in a tall building. Measure the gravity field over many hundreds of feet of vertical distance above the device. Are non-superconductors usable? Use numerous materials in place of the HTSC disk, search for tiny gravity fields above the device. Use the accelerometer to observe the beam strength while the disk is heated and cooled through superconductive transistion. Any odd effects? Make a delicately balanced "waterwheel", place the device under one side, does the wheel turn? Do objects above the device couple to the device? Place vibrating mass above the device, search for vibrations in the device or in the currents in the coils driving it. Allow the device to spin a wheel connected to a brake, search for resulting changes in the drive currents to the coil. Place a massive weight above the device, manually jerk upwards on the weight. If results are positive, it implies that the device can be used for 2-way communications with distant objects in the vertical beam. Does AC magnet frequency make a difference? Try from 0Hz to audio to RF to microwave, etc. Can a continuous non-moving version be built, rather than the present version requiring exposure to a PM? Vary a superposed DC and an AC b-field applied to an HTSC disk and measure the gravity field above the device, look for good settings of the b-fields. Try rotating the b-field at various orientations and frequencies using crossed coils and multiple-phase coil drive currents. Any cosmic ray effects? Check background count with the device on and with it off. Does the effect involve magnetism? Explore the "beam" with a compass. Does it involve e-fields? Test for their presence with an electrometer. Is time affected? Beat two crystal oscillators against each other, place one of them in the beam, look for changes in the difference frequency. Changes in "c"? Pass a laser beam horizontally above the device and look for tiny deflections. Set up an interferometer, place the device beneath one beam path, observe the fringes on the screen, then activate the device and look for shifts in fringe phase. Continuously measure the characteristics of various electronic components, place them in the beam, note changes. Could geomagnetism cause a similar effect in rock layers? If weight of objects changes constantly at a low level, how to measure? Is this the source of "Taos Hum?" Can hum-sensitive people stick their head in the beam and hear the 60hz modulation? What happens when astronomical objects pass through the beam? E.g., if the sun or moon crosses the local zenith, does it alter the weight decrease magnitude, or does it bend or spread the beam shape? The vertical beam is confusing. If the disk is a gravity shield, it should create a penumbra, an image of the earth & iron core, not a vertical beam (unless earth has a black hole in the center!) For example, will there be a separate beam from the disk associated with each planet and the sun, or do all the masses add together and simply cause deflection of the one vertical beam. Use an accelerometer to search for secondary beams below the device, one associated with the shadow of the sun, moon, etc. Or, search for slight deflection of the beam on a 24hr cycle, as the relative position of sun and moon are changed. If there are multiple beams below the disk (image of "gravity sky"), then mechanically scan the device in a raster (mount it on the rim of a spinning disk, move the disk along.) Place a microphone or accelerometer below, record the output and paint a graphics screen with the raster, synched to the spinning disk. Gravity telescope! Try the toroid experiment: poke a hole in the disk, see if it creates a beam of *non* reduced weight. Make a big plate with a small hole? Gravity-force pinhole camera? Make a big plate with small AC coil, see how it affects the force profile of the beam. Does waving a small coil under a large plate cause a small moving beam above the plate? ************************************************************************* Other Ideas: Free energy: place the device under a vertical wheel, off center from the location of the axle, and the wheel should start to spin. Connect the wheel to a generator. Water pump: Make a "U"-shaped pipe, position it upright, fill it with water, place the device under one side of the "U". Weather mod: the effect is essentially a beam of upwards vertical force. It should create a vertical atmospheric fountain and tornado, like "cavorite" in Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" story. Interfere with aircraft: If a large plane flies through the beam, the sudden change in weight might be destructive. Giant loudspeaker: If the effect can be modulated, then pipe audio to the device, and an enormous vertical column of the earth's atmosphere will vary in pressure and will function as a public address system. Place the device in a tall building and vibrate the structure to produce sound. Knock down geosync satellites. A large device precisely positioned at the equator can apply a continuous force to a particular satellite. Fountain: place the device at the bottom of a large body of water, and the water above the device will thrust upwards. http://amasci.com/freenrg/gravidea.txt http://amasci.com/freenrg/antigrav.txt