I was looking around Amazon.com’s most popular aerospace books last night when I came across one entitled “Electrogravatics.” Now, instantly my highly trained psuedoscience sense tickled in the back of my head. Man, usually psuedoscience chooses much more believable names, like Intelligent Design/ Creation Science (perhaps a coherent belief system, but not at all a science), but not Electrogravatics. So, I checked into Electrogravatics.
It turns out that there’s a website called American Antigravity that is devoted to constructing extremely phony looking machines that they make hover above the ground. Go check it out, the videos are hilarious. All of their little hovering machines are made out of triangular sections that have little posts at each vertex, nicely allowing for the attachment of a string that then becomes invisible in their super-low-res videos! What a load of bull.
One place on the internet even claimed that the B-2 bomber generates what’s known as an “asymmetric capacitor” with an potential difference of 10 MV, which has the effect of reducing the weight of the B-2 by 10%, thus increasing its supersonic performance. The trouble with that is that the B-2 is NOT a supersonic aircraft. If it were to break the sound barrier, it would create a sonic boom that would be most un-stealthy.
It’s almost as if someone thought, “let’s think of a name that sounds so much like bullshit, that only the wackiest loons would be attracted to it!” Well, at that they certainly have succeeded.
Mr. Kendall, you apparently have not researched the subjuct of “Electrogravatics” well whatsoever. First off, if you are going to make negative statements about someone who made scientific breakthroughs in the 1920’s (e.g. Thomas Townsend Brown) for the purpose of advancing mankind’s future, then why don’t you make your own site for it? Blogging is not a way to get your great topic spread (this is my first blog, I HATE BLOG, and I will not be looking back on this one or any other blog I ever make, if any).
Secondly, American Antigravity is a load of BS. But many people, including myself, have created these electrogravatic, “lifters” to see if they did work, as we were all skeptics once too. They have worked for me and apparantly everyone else, as they have spread to Japan and Australia too.
The purpose of having the points in the center of the junction of multiple pieces of aluminum for the lifter experiments is to mount the thin wire on top(streching from one point to another, not the ceiling), which is a crucial element to the process, as the wire is connected to the positive side of the 30 KV transformer, and the thin aluminum sheets are connected to the negative side.
If you would like to replicate this experiment yourself, there are many sites, such as JLN labs’ site, which will give you step by step directions on how to create one of these facinating machines.
I hope you will see that you should try experimenting with the topics that you speak of, rather than just spreading the word of how everything that is scientifically debatable is classified as pseudoscience, as the electrogravatic effect exists, and needs to be accepted by the scientific community as fact.
Please consider trying to build one for yourself. (Note: The 30 KV transformers are hard to get a hold of because of flat screen monitors now, JLN labs used a 30 KV HP computer monitor, but I had to specifically order one.)
Good luck,
the ANTI-BS’er