At the right is a diagram of Joao Andrade's free arm torque test of a single spinner being accelerated on a pivot arm, who's rotation axis is the same plane and orientation.
*UPDATE 24*
Update addition of 23 April 98 - See the end of this update for an optimised and easily built GIT of higher output, using the knowlege we have obtained to date.
Update addendum of 17 April - Phillip Surgison in South Africa now has a GIT site up with a VERY simple and easy construction that even I could do (if only I could find a "weasle ball"!), I recommend his site highly, good model!
His URL is:http://www.edu.co.za/git.htm. See the last update for other GIT sites.
Errr... edit of 28 August 1998 - It seems Phill was achieving a lot of "walking" effects initially, but more difinitive pendulum and water tests failed. His choice to increase power and velocity of the slick superball orbital on knife edge plastic races is NOT conducive to true inertial propulsion. Over the months since this update was added, TRACTION has shown to be paramount in generating true inertial thrust.
I'm a bit saddened that Phill Poo pooed my orbital torque explanation for thrust and refused to do anything about considering the traction and spin translation needs, and is now a firm "disbeliever" in the GIT. Ah well, can't convince the whole world immediately! DavidC - 28 August 1998
This update is a while in coming, but worth it! FIRST, I'm happy to report that Jeremy's friend Timothy Schoonover has taken FIRST PLACE in his school's, AND the regional SCIENCE FAIR COMPETITIONS with inertial propulsion, featuring your's truly's GIT!
WAY TO GO TIM!
Tim has stated that he's now on to the NATIONALS, let's wish him luck!
You'll recall that Jeremy ran a rather successful pendulum test reported in the last update, that moved off of plumb by nearly twice it's diameter, and is considered by those without stones for brains to be a very convincing test of actual inertial propulsion. Jeremy has a new website on the net now, and Tim Schoonover has pages describing his scholastic victories, and you can find details there on Jeremy's website!
As I write this, my mail box has over 70 letters to be answered and digested for my email forum, a VERY interesting discussion group indeed, but I thought I'd better take a mail break and talk to you "outsiders", and let you know what's happening.
NOTICE! The 4th of May (less than a month away) is my deadline for filing for a patent application on the basic process, and the principles that have proven time and time again to create inertial propulsion will become PUBLIC DOMAIN in the US if I fail to apply by then.
Given the time constraints, and the fact that I've compromised "foreign" patents by disclosure, and the low probability of finding a compatible investor (hands on, and skills needed for successful marketing), in such a short time to enable the patent work, I'm not holding my breath.
IF such a person has been considering the GIT as an investment, this is the big one, the process patent, quite possibly a "pioneering patent" that would give much greater room for development. Now's the time if so, otherwise, EVERYONE will have equal rights concerning the use of spin momentum in combination with orbital velocity exchange to result in inertial propulsion. The transfer of momentum from one radius to another in the same plane in a cyclic movement describes my method of inertial propulsion.
As stated before, I've shared the possible rights with others, and while James Hurl (first to verify the effect) has chosen to drop out, Sam Smith in Anthony Florida, and Amanda J. Gilbert (inventor of the geared GIT variant) are co-decision makers with me on the released inventions that I claim.
There are LOTS of improvements that will be marketable, some have been discussed publically, many more (from many inventors that have shared their improvements with me) are still not discussed pending patent protections (for the entire world, not just the US).
ANYway, Last call for shared control of the US market in the biggest paradigm shift in physics since Sir Isacc Newton, fair warning! If you haven't been following along, and need a month or two to dance around just what it is I'm offering, and want to make your position superior to the three of us, don't bother, I haven't the time or patience at this point!
Like I said, I'm not holding my breath, so the "GIT EFFECT" will likely become public domain in just a few short weeks.
In other news, several others have contacted me with positive results on their concept tests (I count at least 6 successful water tests reported so far, I need to get the pioneers list together!), and serious constructions have begun, the large geared variety!
The math (just a bunch of Greek to me, but a good number of our group are competent to review and analyze math submissions), IS on the net, just not completely fleshed out at this point, and one stubborn error of signs that seems to cancel out the thrust component on the return cycle, contrary to reality, needs found and corrected. It seems that locating and quantifying a LINEAR movement from ANGULAR impulse is not in the standard bag-o-tricks!
You can stumble across it on one of the related GIT sites (see last update for links) or I'll post it here when the author is happy with it, and it gits the thumbs up. Note, the "Why the GIT Won't Work" page found from Jim Kelley's site is NOT the math page I refer to, think the UK!
A new GIT web site has been put up by Jim Kelley in Ohio, and he's stated he will keep current all the related sites now coming on line with links. Jim Kelley's GIT page has the most complete and up to date list of sites now involving our new future, DO book mark this site, I just don't seem to have the time lately to stay current with developments outside of my keyboard!
Jim Kelley is also a prolific writer, and likes talking about our new freedom machine, so DO write him when you get a chance!
Speaking of Jim, he got through to a famous scientist/science fiction writer a while back, and it's really sad to see someone of that caliber, someone who's books I sold at L-5 conventions years ago, is a wooden head, sending back tests that need to be passed to eliminate the unequal friction argument (like the water and pendulum tests), and when that evidence was repeated to him for the third time, came back with things like "Solid rolling traction, I use that everyday in cars and tractors", and then raised the cloud of fraud and trickery! This after stating he'd travel halfway around the world if it was true and lend his support!
Sighhhhh........ I suppose when you kick out the underpinnings of today's limited understanding of physics, all SORTS of crazy communications take place, not a lot of them rational or cogent! You'ld think I wore the shroud of Turin to a Toga party! Toga, togA, TOGA! Errrr..... what I meant to say was that in the "respected" ranks of science, it's treated like a dogmatic religion, and if it's not "kosher" it's heresy and blasphemous.
While I attack slavish adherence to current popular dogma, concerning learning of any sort, I was accused of attacking Sir Issac himself, and smearing todays eminant scientists, NOT what I've said at all, but when you marry yourself to an idea, and that idea is threatened, I suppose it feels like a personal attack. Gotta be careful about that!
At the right is a diagram of Joao Andrade's free arm torque test of a single spinner being accelerated on a pivot arm, who's rotation axis is the same plane and orientation.
You will note that the clockwise orbit travel (an orbital traveling counter-clockwise from nose to tail for instance, and increasing it's spin moment) results in a clockwise acceleration of the orbital and a matching but counterclockwise torque on the arm (real or virtual in the case of free rolling orbitals in a race), results in a BENDING moment on the arm.
If this setup were balanced on the other side with an opposing torque, the result would be merely a pressure wanting to break the arm, and go no-where (remember the failed SpiderGIT?).
Easy enough to see is the push the free arm gives to the center pivot resulting in a forward thrust component FROM THE OUTSIDE MASS OF YOUR ORBITAL'S SPIN INERTIA, which it does in real life as one of our "anomalous" forces to consider.
NOT so easy to see is that the same "bending force" (thank you Cyril Smith!) on that arm from the spin torque will also place a forward thrust ON THE ORBITAL'S LINEAR MASS, and if the center pivot is stationary, the orbital will move CLOCKWISE as a result. Trust me, it really works that way, if you don't believe me, ask Joao Andrade in Brazil, he ran the tests!
If the normal orbit travel is counter-clockwise and slowing down as in the GIT, the torqe reaction with the virtual or real arm will be to counter the deceleration of your orbital and it will "carry the load" of deceleration instead of your system's center of mass, since the OUTSIDE MASS (learning to deal with Newton worshipers, gotta get the buzz words in!) of your spin moment carries the reaction, RATHER THAN YOUR ORBITAL'S linear mass or your CENTER of SYSTEM MASS, and thus cancels a portion of your tangential deceleration energy.
At the left is the variable velocity thruster attempt of yore, a NON working thruster when the end masses are "dumb" or non-spinning masses.
NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT! The Variable velocity "dumb weight" thruster attempt does NOT work as a thruster because the centrifugal and tangential forces CANCEL each other out, so your LINEAR mass considerations are balanced, and over time relatively AT REST (no go in other words).
With the GIT, we now have another mass reaction that is OUTSIDE of your linear mass acceleration totals, and as such, the torque components shown here on the left are in essense a reaction mass from ANOTHER DIMENSION! (spookey sci-fi music ;)
Of course I'm talking about the axes of the orbitals, another dimension of movement to be considered! As the orbital increases it's spin, it's torque operates in the opposite handed direction, and when decreasing it's spin rate, the torque operates in the SAME direction of rotation as it dumps momentum back into the system.
The torque reverses direction on either side (even though the orbitals turn the same direction throughout), and while there is some non-productive thrust (tends to just wiggle it when the torque is applied from nose or tail regions), the two sides DO sum to a net inertial thrust!
If it were only torque we were dealing with, then only one orbital would work, but since the arms are NOT joined in a "teeter-totter", either side is free to apply thrust to the center (and linear mass of your orbital), and both ADD rather than cancel!
Since the tangential accelerations of "free arms" are now being powered by the "outside mass" of your torque components, they will either add to or subtract from those force components, resulting in inertial propulsion!
A simple experiment (and easy thruster to make) would be a single spinner weight on a center pivot arm, and contact wipers that get power from a plate under your rig, which would reverse the current direction (and torque) on either side. Use a small motor to get it up to speed before sending the juice to the spinner.
This gizmo will power it's own orbital acceleratory (variable velocity) motions purely from TORQUE (speed up and slow down), and thus replace the normally centrifugal canceling tangential accelerations. Try it, I'm pretty sure it will work, since the GIT works!
Oh shoot, a BUNCH more to say, but I've got LOTS of mail to answer, so I'll have to leave this update for now, and get on to the IMPORTANT stuff, folks who are working with me from around the world to get our CHEAP SPACE FLIGHT ERA engaged!
Want to be in on the "inside" of this developing grass roots science movement? join in on the fun..... Stay tuned!
David Eugene Cowlishaw - 4:30 pm Tuesday, 7 April 1998
PO Box 733
Silverton, Oregon 97381 USA
At the right is the Iron pipe GIT model I whipped up to give a better performer for builders. Using the knowlege we've obtained with testing and theory improvements, along with easily obtained materials, this is the model I think will be a better homebuilt model.
The conic GITs are better performers since the angle of contact with the race is consistant around the race and maintains the absolutely crucial SOLID ROLLING TRACTION better than spheres.
Conic GITs of yore had problems with the orbitals tipping over in the race because the narrower cones tended to allow the orbitals to get out of alignment, so this model uses the optimum angle of cones.
The more "squat" the cones are, the more stable they are, but if TOO squat, the rubbing friction and tendency to push the race halves apart gets out of hand, so I recommend a cone angle of 45 degrees (from the axis), for simple conics that will not need stabilizing arms and such fixes needed in the past.
The length can be anything reasonable, but the model here uses 1 inch hardwood dowels, the ends turned to a 45 degree angle, and a cylindrical section length of 2 inches.
Attatched (glue on so it won't spin free) to the dowels is 1 inch internal passage iron pipe sections (as shown, 1 and 3/4 inches long), to increase the angular moment of inertia, since the effect is derived from the TORQUE that the orbitals place on the system in the spin accelerations.
If multiple orbitals are used (2 or 3 possible with this model) make SURE the orbitals are of equal dimensions or you'll have problems with dynamic spacing!
The races are made from 2 inch ABS plastic COUPLINGS, having an inside diameter of 2 and 3/8 inches, the cut angles are 8 degrees, and the inside edges are chamfered at 45 degrees to match the angles on the orbitals, to increase traction surface. Add a traction substance, such as rubber cement, to the chamfered edges to insure TRACTION, without which, the orbitals will slip, and NO thrust will be the result!
The wheel is a flexible material to insure pressure on the orbitals to maintain traction, and is 3/4 inches in diameter, long enough to get a good and consistant contact. The wheel axel shown is 3/16 inch off center toward the tail from the centers of the race cylinders.
I recommend also adding a traction substance to the cones of your orbitals as well. ALL failed GITs to date have had orbital slippage, since we need to force spin AND race velocity accelerations AT THE SAME TIME, and that equals a LOT of reluctance to obey our requirements!
Cabinet loop handles completes the construction, allowing the orbitals to freely circulate, and if you can, a double motor (on either end in the race sections), for balance (reverse one so they turn the same direction of course), is a good idea.
Want an even easier GIT to build? Think PENCILGIT! Those fat round pencils, sharpened on both ends in laminated cardboard races? Quick, easy, and fairly accurate with ordinary materials!
Have fun, and let me know if you get one to fly, we already have water and pendulum tests stacking up around the world, and the next milestone is self lift, will you be the first to break the minds of the skeptics? a worthy goal indeed!
OH! Tim Schoonover only (ONLY!!!) took second in the national science fair competitions for PRIVATE SCHOOLs, and I couldn't be happier! You've made me happy and proud Tim, I can't impress on you enough, the feat that you've accomplished! Now how about more info on Jeremy's web site? ;)
I hope to have a new update on line by the 4th of May, outlining the list of inventions of mine that I now believe will be public domain for the world, the one year aniversery of the GIT project in public.
'Til next time, this is your paradigm shifting soldier of science DavidC saying - ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO IT!
This just in! (25 April 98) David Fox in Australia reported a successful land and water test of his GIT, his 4 year old daughter helped him pick out his orbitals (super balls)!
The interesting thing in this report (getting many water tests now ;), is that his unit moved FASTER on water than on land, and to me an indication that friction was HINDERING, rather than helping, and if it were unequal friction effects (the normal dismissal of IP in general), the land and water test results would have been reversed!
David Fox has a new GIT web site on line, DO visit when you get a chance! (10 am Saturday, 25 April)