Gravity Control - Not Exactly
A while back I had a dream and one of the things in it was this levitating platform that was used to display advertising at night at public gatherings, kind of like the Goodyear blimp only a lot smaller and not a blimp.
Specifically, this thing was a rectangular box, what appeared to be an aluminum chassis, and on the outside an array of LEDs like an ordinary LED billboard type sign; except this one silently levitated up in the air without any obvious means of propulsion.
The devices that allowed it to levitate looked like iron core transformers except instead of one vertical bar, there was a cross, like this:
Yes, I know it is a crude drawing, but hopefully it conveys the idea, you have a cross like this and four windings, and they all go to control electronics. There is a set of high power transistors and some lower power electronics driving them. There are also batteries powering the electronics switching currents through the various coils, the batteries looked like "D" NiMH batteries, the transistors normal TO3 case, nothing really exotic.
I can't see all the details, but the way I saw this functioning in the dream, it's related to Boyd Bushman's, allegedly a senior scientist at Lockheed Martin (I have no way of verifying this), experiment where he dropped opposing magnets bolted together and non-magnetized material of same weight and proportion off of Lockheed Martins' leaning tower of Pizza, building #500, and the magnetized version always took longer to hit the ground.
He theorized that the magnetic plane created slowed it down somewhat but in the video I saw he did not elaborate beyond that. I can see how that could happen, it's interacting magnetically with the orbits of electrons in surrounding materials, there is inertia, so it's going to resist. This is true even in free space because you still have virtual particles to interact with.
If I'm not clear, let me try to make it simpler; a magnetic field affects charged particles, and since every action creates an equal and opposite reaction, that's going to exert a force back onto the field and to the body from which it emanates. If the field is trying to move; that's going to create a force opposing that movement, thus slowing the fall of the magnets. By making them oppose, the field lines go out instead of looping back tightly thus interacting with more particles.
This has four sections, if some of the laminate pieces in each section aren't contiguous, then you could create a kind of magnetic corkscrew by sequentially activating them although I'm not sure. I'm thinking the opposite coils are activated simultaneously. It seemed clear in the dream but it's one of those things where you can feel it slipping away as you wake up and I did my best to remember long enough to write it down but it went away.
So instead of a stationary plane you create kind of a magnetic corkscrew to pull itself through the aether. I'm just relating this hoping it might make sense to someone else or maybe trigger an idea or memory.
Specifically, this thing was a rectangular box, what appeared to be an aluminum chassis, and on the outside an array of LEDs like an ordinary LED billboard type sign; except this one silently levitated up in the air without any obvious means of propulsion.
The devices that allowed it to levitate looked like iron core transformers except instead of one vertical bar, there was a cross, like this:
Yes, I know it is a crude drawing, but hopefully it conveys the idea, you have a cross like this and four windings, and they all go to control electronics. There is a set of high power transistors and some lower power electronics driving them. There are also batteries powering the electronics switching currents through the various coils, the batteries looked like "D" NiMH batteries, the transistors normal TO3 case, nothing really exotic.
I can't see all the details, but the way I saw this functioning in the dream, it's related to Boyd Bushman's, allegedly a senior scientist at Lockheed Martin (I have no way of verifying this), experiment where he dropped opposing magnets bolted together and non-magnetized material of same weight and proportion off of Lockheed Martins' leaning tower of Pizza, building #500, and the magnetized version always took longer to hit the ground.
He theorized that the magnetic plane created slowed it down somewhat but in the video I saw he did not elaborate beyond that. I can see how that could happen, it's interacting magnetically with the orbits of electrons in surrounding materials, there is inertia, so it's going to resist. This is true even in free space because you still have virtual particles to interact with.
If I'm not clear, let me try to make it simpler; a magnetic field affects charged particles, and since every action creates an equal and opposite reaction, that's going to exert a force back onto the field and to the body from which it emanates. If the field is trying to move; that's going to create a force opposing that movement, thus slowing the fall of the magnets. By making them oppose, the field lines go out instead of looping back tightly thus interacting with more particles.
This has four sections, if some of the laminate pieces in each section aren't contiguous, then you could create a kind of magnetic corkscrew by sequentially activating them although I'm not sure. I'm thinking the opposite coils are activated simultaneously. It seemed clear in the dream but it's one of those things where you can feel it slipping away as you wake up and I did my best to remember long enough to write it down but it went away.
So instead of a stationary plane you create kind of a magnetic corkscrew to pull itself through the aether. I'm just relating this hoping it might make sense to someone else or maybe trigger an idea or memory.
posted by Nanook at 6:12 AM
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