An interview with Marc Millis, founder of the Tau Zero Foundation, was posted yesterday on Alan Boyle’s Cosmic Log on the MSNBC Web site. After discussing the so-called ‘antigravity’ phenomenon known as the Podkletnov effect, which has been called into serious question by recent studies that found no evidence for it, Millis went on to discuss other, more intriguing research. From the interview:
Millis is more interested in research into the Woodward effect – “a transient inertia effect” that could eventually have implications for propulsion, if verified – as well as a more recent study of “a fairly large gravitomagnetic effect, too large to be explained with general relativity as we understand it so far.”
He cautioned that “we’re not talking about an immediate propulsive effect, and it might be a measuring artifact.” But at least the research illustrates that there are still mysteries out there that could someday turn those science-fiction dreams into practical starflight.
Centauri Dreams will have more to say about Woodward’s explanation of inertia and its connection to Mach’s principle in a future post.
I had heard a bit concerning the gravitomagnetic curiousity but not anything concerning this Woodward effect. I will be most interested when you’re able to garner more details.
I hope to get to Woodward soon; I have several of his papers here but nothing in the past year, so I need to be sure I’m caught up first.
Below is a link to my unofficial site which has links, PPT presentations, non-published papers, and pictures, concerning the W.E.
http://www.woodwardeffect.org
Enjoy =)
Hi Folks;
It would be interesting to test a variety of magnetic, electric, and/or electromagnetic field configurations to search for novel gravatic effects.
1) One such configuration might involve the use of current carrying superconducting liquids wherein the superconducting liquids would flow in any one or more of the following types of motion: Helical motion, seloniodal motion typical of densely packed current carrying loops, rolling motion about a toriod minor axis simmilar to taking a rubber band and twisting about its minor axis or about its thickness, flowing around a solid sphere, flowing in a disk like circular motion, flowing in a vortexual motion such as the air inside a tornado, and flowing in a tortional motion, etc.. Other motions that could be tested include current carrrying molten superconductor paths wherein there are one or more abrupt changes in conductor flow directions. Note that any one or all of the types of superconductor motions described above can be miniturized with respect to the overall aspect ratio of the experimental setup to yield a array or matrix i.e., 2-D or 3-D set up to search for anomolous effects.
In addition to the above simple types of motion, the molten superconductors could be placed in vessels of the above associated shapes and then rotated along one, two, or three optionally orthogonal axis of rotation with the further option of forming an array of such rotating experimental sub-units. Moreover, the superconductor could be made to flow with varying speeds including but not limited to abrupt direction change, abrupt flow velocity change, and even made to undergo abrupt, wildly varying, or chaotic (in the fractal pattern sense of the word) turbulent flow in addition to the optional possibility of turbulent flow of randomly varying and complicated motions. Such motions can be induced on a microscopic, mesocopic, and/or macroscopic scale.
Producing magnetic field patterns with abrupt changes in field strength might also be of use in producing discontimuities in the magnetic properties of free space and thus perhaps result in novel zeropoint electromagnetic, electrogravatic, and magnetogravatic effects.
What ever the configuration of the superconducting liquid flow patterns, the electrical current flowing within can be made to have one or more pulses of arbitrary shape including continous wavetrains of the same or varying shaped pulses. These pulses could include any pulses describable within the total set of Fourier Series, Fourier Transforms, Spherical Harmonic Functions, Associated Spherical Harmonic Functions, Bessel Functions and the like. Thus a potentially infinite set of experiments could be done to tease out magnetogravatic, electrogravatic, or electromagnetogravatic effects.
2) Analogous configurations of motion could be produced by charged dialectric material. For instance, liquid charged dielectic materials might involve the use of charge containing dielectic liquids wherein the liquids would flow in any one or more of the following types of motion: Helical motion, seloniodal motion typical of densely packed current carrying loops, rolling motion about a toriod simmilar to taking a rubber band and twisting about its minor axis or about its thickness, flowing around a solid sphere, flowing is a disk like circular motion, flowing in a vortexual motion such as the air inside a tornado, and flowing in a tortional motion etc.. Other motions that could be tested include liquid paths wherein there are one or more abrupt changes in dielectric flow directions. Note that any one or all of the types of liquid dielectic motions described above can be miniturized with respect to the overall aspect ratio of the experimental setup to yield a array or matrix i.e., 2-D or 3-D set up to search for anomolous effects.
In addition to the above simple types of motion, the charged liquid dielectrics could be placed in vessels of the above associated shapes and then rotated along one, two, or three optionally orthogonal axis of rotation with the further option of forming an array of such rotating experimental sub-units. Moreover, the dielctrics could be made to flow with varying speeds including but not limited to abrupt direction change, abrupt flow velocity change, and even made to undergo abrupt, wildly varying, or chaotic (in the fractal pattern sense of the word) turbulent flow in addition to the optional possibility of turbulent flow of randomly varying and complicated motions. Such motions can be induced on a microscopic, mesocopic, and/or macroscopic scale.
Note that immiscable charged liquid dielectric materials could be used in the overall liquid flow patterns in an attempt to try to cover more experimental variables. In addition, the diectric charge densities can be made to very from among the various fluid components.
Producing electric field patterns with abrupt changes in field strength might also be of use in producing discontimuities in the electrical properties of free space and thus perhaps result in novel zeropoint electromagneticgravatic, electrogravatic, and magnetogravatic effects.
3) Another option would be to use liquid light refrecting materials wherein such materials would be capable of passing very high flow crossectional area wise flux concentrations of a variety of electromagnetic frequencies. As stated simillarly to the above cases, one such configuration might involve the use of light carrying liquids wherein the liquids would flow in any one or more of the following types of motion: Helical motion, seloniodal motion typical of densely packed electrical current carrying loops such as those in electromagnets, rolling motion about a toriod simmilar to taking a rubber band and twisting about its minor axis or about its thickness, flowing around a solid sphere, flowing is a disk like circular motion, flowing in a vortexual motion such as the air inside a tornado, and flowing in a tortional motion, etc.. Other motions that could be tested include light carrrying dielectic paths wherein there are one or more abrupt changes in light conductor flow directions. Note that any one or all of the types of light carrying dielectric motions described above can be miniturized with respect to the overall aspect ratio of the experimental setup to yield a array or matrix i.e., 2-D or 3-D set up to search for anomolous effects.
In addition to the above simple types of motion, the light carrying dielectrics could be placed in vessels of the above associated shapes and then rotated along one, two, or three optionally orthogonal axis of rotation with the further option of forming an array of such rotating experimental sub-units. Moreover, the light carrying dielectrics could be made to flow with varying speeds including but not limited to abrupt direction change, abrupt flow velocity change, and even made to undergo abrupt, wildly varying, or chaotic (in the fractal pattern sense of the word) turbulent flow in addition to the optional possibility of turbulent flow of randomly varying and complicated motions. Such motions can be induced on a microscopic, mesocopic, and/or macroscopic scale.
Note that immiscible liquids with different indices of refraction and varying relative indices of refraction for different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation could be combined to add complexity to the light carrying fluid flow patterns in an attempt to cover a broader set of experimental conditions. Also note that electromagnetic radiation of varying frequencies and waveforms can be used within the experimental set ups including but not limited to monochromatic frequencies, narrow continous spectrum frequencies, broad spectrum frequencies, and any of the various wave train forms describable by Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms.
Producing light flux patterns with abrupt changes in flux strength might also be of use in producing discontimuities in the electromagnetic properties of free space and thus perhaps result in novel zeropoint electromagnetic, electrogravatic, and magnetogravatic effects.
Note that combinations of the above three categories and sub categories of experimental setups could be utilized simultaneously to look for synerestic effects that could involve quantumelectrodynamic based gravity effects or classicalelectrodynamic based gravity effects.
In short, when looking for magnetogravatic effects, electrogravatic effects, and electromagetogravatic effects, a wide range of geometic or topological conditions needs to be tested which are wisely, optionally temporally varying. Maxwells equations where discovered by varying the geometry of the associated experimental apparatus. Such intuitively makes sense, since according to Maxwell’s equations light propagates through free space in the geometic configuration of the right handed oriented triple coordinate system. Experimenting with novel electromagnetic set ups might unviel space time distortional effects producable within the broad range of electromagnetic phenomenon and might shed light on higher dimensional space based phenomenon or realities in general. Such discoveries might one day be of use in the form of electromagnetic teleportation or time travel devices that are often the subject of science fiction novels and motion pictures and in some cases the subject of conspiracy theories which mainly lack credibility.
That’s all for now.
Thanks;
Jim
jim,right on! wish we had more people thinking like you.i know that these things are not accomplished over night but always…”just” studies or talks would be a step in the right direction! good going buddy,your friend george ps by the way all of the comments before your seem to agree!!!i feel good about that. g
Hey Jim, baking propulsion style I see.
Jim, George, others, many good magnetic ideas for propulsion above. As we discussed before there are probably many intergalactic “Avenues” out there where we might be able to use/ capture existing natural galactic EM and electron flows to propel craft.
Some of these ideas using magnetism could seemingly ionize captured materials for fuel– having a reasonable chance for use in future propulsion systems.
Not too exited about the Woodward effect though– we would all hope that there’s something there that could some day come to fruition, but it sounds fishy to me right now from what I was able to find out about it. I believe that the Universal gravitational effect works in a non-linear fashion, different from the Mach effect as I understand it.
your friend forrest