THE GYROSCOPIC INERTIAL THRUSTER
*UPDATE 32*
Well, enough folks have written me wondering if I were still alive, that I figured it was time for a new update! :)
In this update, a report on the FIRST successful clean out of a "keystroke capture" program (see bottom of update 28 for a link describing a similar remote invasion program being offered commercially), that has been keeping ALMOST invisible tabs on me in my own computer, a nearly invincible "intelligence" snoop assault. The thing has plagued me since a few months into the project (see OldSite.zip for details in the first 8 or so updates), and for a short time at least, I am master of my own computer! That is my lead story, since I feel it's important for future networked private communications involving the cheap space flight beginnings. THANK YOU, TIM BENEDICT! (',8~}
I will recap the last two years of this project, report on the first International AntiGravity conference in Reno, try once more to make the physical findings more understandable on a theory level, and discuss false assumptions in today's physical science, that is generally prohibiting an accurate math model for the GIT and subsequent variants.
If this is your first visit, I recommend that you fully explore my site, particularly the previous updates, as well as the theory pages. Over 20 physical verifications have been reported to me over the past two years, and the sum of all of the tests has given me a firm confidence that we are actually achieving the "impossible"! I am no longer seriously entertaining those that want to bring me back into the fold of the "Church of Newton"! :) I have repeatedly seen that in reality, some of today's motion physics assumtions are FALSE! Now to PROVE that assertion to the general public is my challenge, one I WILL achieve eventually, by sheer doggedness if nothing else! ;) So let's get to it!
First and formost, I can now tell you that the computer "worm" that I've been plagued with since early in the project, has been rooted out of my main machine, and I'm now running with an isolated "firewall" machine for my net connections. If the snoops can't wait a few days for the latest information by snagging my email from the net, tough! The battles with the "worm" are detailed in the first 8 or so updates.
I am really very pleased with the work of a freelance computer wrangler that I met at the AntiGravity Conference back in June in Reno, Tim Benedict . He drove all the way from Boise, Idaho to our place in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, for an intense weekend of bug erradication for me! Two previous tries by other "experts" were only a short reprieve, for within a few days, my computer would be sending 2 to 4 times the data it should have been, and strange programs would launch at odd times, and close themselves out after a few computer games (that appears to bore it), but it was certainly alert for ANY net connection!
To his credit, Tim didn't patronize me and wave off "strange behavior" reports that prior rebuild attempts produced, in trying to be helpful in my own machine's rebuild. He came up with solutions that appear to be working for nearly a week now! My main machine is working many times faster, in all programs, including boot and shut down, and I've now a larger hard drive space. Heck, the files needed don't even make a line on the properties pie-chart thingie! ;)
Tim found that my suspicion of a bios reprogramming (that locked out clean software installations), was correct, and he reflashed the bios. We decided to just yank the infected hard drive and use it as an isolated data disk only, and went further to install a write channel lockout with a hardwired switch, so the boot bios can't be corrupted remotely anymore!
He left me with software tools to safely reload my complete operating system if it's ever corrupted again, knowlege on how to swap drives safely on multiple machines, and in general really showed me he IS a computer expert in both hardware AND software integration, rather than just an assumed false designation, like I've experienced in the past!
I can highly recommend his services as a technician for one or hundreds of machines {well, at least TWO that I know of at this minute! :), and a right personable and reasonable person besides! His wife couldn't make it out to visit, she was due, oh, probably about the time you read this for the first time. With a new mouth to feed only a few weeks away, you know what that means for Tim! He needs extra work, is willing to "horse trade", shown to be discrete with client data (some files, well, you know....;), and well worth what he asks for his services!
See his website and resume' at Tim Benedict's web site!
You can see Tim peeking out from the back of the AG Conference group photo below. With a Cowboy hat, we've started calling him "Cowboy Tim"! :)
There have been signs that the net connected machine (running NT this time), is getting reinfected (strange added system files, and a LOT of large bitmap files written NEXT MONTH!), but Tim is keeping up with it via email as it progressively takes over my net connected machine again. He will likely be one of the few computer techs (withOUT a top secret security clearance and a nervous tick! :), that is experienced in this type of high level spying and computer security assaults!
The following is only a quick recap of over two years of intense communications work, and you can find all the gory details in the past updates! The first 20 are in the zipped file folder OldSite.zip., and subsequent ones are achieved using the 'Oldnews', 'Next update' links on any update page. My sitelist page also has them listed with hot links to individually numbered and named files.
On May 4th, 1997, I first published my experimental findings of the last part of 1996 in an unusual way. I made twenty four, 1.44 meg floppies of my findings, with graphics included, and began handing them out to attendees to a Star Trek convention in Portland Oregon in "IBM" format (.txt, .bmp, and .avi files). If you have a copy of that diskette, hang onto it! You'll recognize it by the "gitman" in color on the lable with a rainbow background! ;)
Anyone that showed even remote interest in a real "impulse driver" of Star Trek lore, got a free copy of my files! Unfortunately, reality was not high on the minds of those present. The Klingons were some of the LEAST interested! :) It mostly went to retail booth merchants, while Bill Shatner regaled the packed auditorium with his stolen underwear yarn (kiss this! ;). My heart goes out to Mr. Shatner for his recent loss.
On 12 May 1997, I converted my files to html format, and posted it on my brand new web site (first having learned to be a "webmaster"). In July of 1997, the first physical confirmation came to me via email from an Australian computer graphics student, James Hurl (a pseudonym). He described a unit made from two plastic bird baths, and chinese excercise balls (hollow metal spheres), which got away from him to shatter against his refrigerator! He also made the first small orbit/large orbital version that has proven to be a better performer for the home experimenter. See his page in OldSite.zip
From there, others began to experiment (or were already and then subsequently contacted me), and though some failures were reported, a much larger number of positive reports came in! There are many highlights and milestones that were achieved, and there have been about 20 confirmations so far, but enough to have kept me going in this "heretic" field of research!
Most of them took pains to eliminate any other explanation for the produced thrust, and by examining the details of those reports (such as water and ice tests moving faster than land "scooter" tests, less friction produces MORE velocity, eliminating the slip/stick "ratcheting effect" as an explanation), and further confirmations (including freebody diagram math exams, though NOT via Newtonian momentum mechanics, big surprise) have been achieved!
I personally have been focusing now on the theory, and many good minds (even those with long strings of letters appended to their name) are in constant email communications with me, to wrestle out a reasonable explanation for this "anomaly". It's looking now like we will have to rewrite many of our "laws" that forbid on paper, what we are achieving in reality! More on that later.
There have been a lot of websites put up by others on the net with GIT related information, see my Links page for a list of some of them! Interestingly, there were several negative sites earlier in the project, but I can't find a one of them these days, and more and more positive sites are appearing! In fact my site has been winning accolades and support, and I can no longer keep up with those that link in my musings on this infant science!
Oh, Speaking of accolades, my site is now a "Cool Site"! A hands-on link reviewing and listing service for Netscape communications, in cooperation with AOL.com, has listed my site in the Anomalies and Alternative Science section of their Science catagories! COOL! :)
At the end of June of this year, I was fortunate enough to attend the first International AntiGravity Conference in Reno, Nevada, sponsored by Jim Cox, author of the AntiGravity News.
From having attended both the founding conventions of the Mars Society, and the first international AG Conference, I can tell you that I certainly fit in much more comfortably with those that can entertain the thought that we don't know it all yet, and are willing to look into possible exceptions to current dogma! I was certainly surprised by the mental and emotional quality of those attending, for most if not all were accomplished in their fields of teaching, engineering, technical fields, and still had open minds!
It was magic in other words, especially the bar-b-que where we could all relax and get to know one another. I got pressed into service as grillmaster (no job too small when it's needed! ;), and conversations all around were so interesting, it was hard to keep attention in just one clutch of conversation! There were so many subjects that I myself have pursued and... WOW, all I can say is wow, what neat group of folks!
I've identified only a few in this photo, notables such as Mark Iverson, Jim Cox, and Bob Dean (son of Norman L. Dean of the Dean drive), were sponsors, and along with INE site owner (padrak.com), Dr. Patrick Bailey, were the panel discussion participants. No, I didn't get the "Inventor of the year" prize originally on the schedule (no one did), I should have brought a "WOW" working model! :)
Given the quality of minds attending, I felt a focus on theory, with video of the successful tests of others passed around in Amanda Gilbert's lap top, would suffice. I must be getting demo shy! ;) I DID wow them with graphics though!
Long time contributor Mike Haney of 3D triad (computer generated 3D graphics and animation services), couldn't attend, but printed out HUGE (3 foot by up to 6 feet long!) color graphics for me to use in my explanations.
They arrived at the Sands motel front desk (where we stayed in Reno for the Conference), about a half hour AFTER I was scheduled to speak, but Amanda covered for me, and warmed up the crowd. Thanks Mike, they sure helped get the ideas across MUCH better than me just waving my arms! ;)
Contacts from that conference (such as Stephan Fuelling, Asst. Prof at UofNev@Reno, far left in the photo standing), have been helping me align my words with current definitions by email, and furthering our reach into near (and yet so far, so far) space!
It was sure good to see Amanda again! As the inventor of the Cone gear and variable sized tooth stationary contact gear improvement to the GIT, and giving it freely to the public domain, as I have the GIT and subsequent variants, we seem to have many of the same ideals. She certainly has the brains to keep up in all sorts of interesting and essoteric subjects, and has been with this project from nearly the beginning.
On the right is a photo of her and I in front of the Sands (my wife Rosalie took the photos with Amanda's digital camera), where I'm showing her my plaster model of her cone gear variant, and I presented her with the very first cone gear master mold, "master tooth" that generated the cone, along with some other things, as a thank you for her participation.
I STILL haven't done it (the ALFA cone gears), though I'm almost ready for casting the production molds. The ALFA changed in mid-stream to one MUCH more effective, that I'm calling the ALFA-MAX! Sighhhh.... with the rapid changes that networking enables, I can't get one built before a much better one comes along! I will hang onto this improvement for a while instead of releasing it immediately to the public domain (it's a big one!). Perhaps someone out there wants to actually get production going. That will be after a bit more R&D and some legal paperwork of course! I know for a fact, that fledgling businesses needing a lot of initial capital, are a better investment if there are patentable products.
Having had about 10 offers for investment and a few "no strings attached" gifts to pursue this as more than just a hobby, all of which came to nothing (mostly the public domain explanation of the basic designs gets them! ;), so I'm NOT holding my breath! If I keep giving it all away though, I may never get it capitalized!
Those interested in potential business in this field please contact Amanda Gilbert. She does the business capitalization thing MUCH better than I (with extensive schooling and actual experience), and I trust her! Hey, I know my strengths and limitations, and my priorities would make me a poor administrator indeed! :)
I have modeled this three part animation on "graph paper" so it's easier to track the motions. The left bar animation is a single linear impulse to the end of a bar, showing how it will react when subjected to an external impulse (like a bullet hitting one end). This is equal to one of the force vectors of a spin torque, acting on the outside of our bar in this example.
As you can see, it will give the bar BOTH an angular motion (spin) and a linear motion, now moving away from the impact point.
This is where standard motion mechanics practice breaks down in my opinion, by giving the absolute linear trajectory of the impact mass, an angular momentum definition, as well as a now reduced (from actual) linear momentum to "keep the books straight". This paper fiction "spin" of the straight linear travel of the impact mass, equal to the amount of spin resulting in the bar, gives an angular and linear momentum definition to become conservative on PAPER, but NOT in reality! OOPS! :)
Clearly, the supposed "per definition" angular path of the bullet is NOT experiencing the centripital force required to give it an ACTUAL (absolute) angular motion, and is lacking the "real world" expression of total forces of real mass in a real universe! More on that later in this update.
On the far right, is the other of the opposed but offset force vectors acting on the bar, and in this example, acting on the very center of the bar. As a "straight on" impulse, the bar will move off without spinning.
Shown in the middle, is the equivalent force vectors of a momentuary spin acceleration on one side of the bar, acting in tandem to mimic the forces felt by a "closed system", off-center spin torque impulse.
As the momentary force vectors are "felt" by the bar, it has equal strengths at the "points of impact", equal also in the radius offset distance from the axle of the ring mass. For this example, the ring would be half the bar's length in diameter, mounted on an axle 1/4 of the bar's length from the left end.
Linear bullets would not exactly act this way, for with elastic collisions, some energy might be carried away from a rebound, but for this mental experiment, we should be close enough to convey the concepts, in hopefully not TOO obtuse a manner!
Any acceleration in this universe causes a "back pressure" in reaction to it's acceleration, which gives us the inertia characteristics of mass. The "linear equivalent" impulse vectors are a very real and palpable force experienced by the system as an acceleration is taking place against the "inertial fabric of space", which is apparently lacking in today's motion physics calculation "rules"!
Since the impulse vectors are of equal strength, it should become apparent how the thrust is being generated. The impulse vector to the very center is entirely applied in a resultant linear direction, but the impulse at the end of the bar is SPLIT, between a reverse linear action, as well as a spin moment of the bar! (Should we violate "conservation of energy" as well? :).
Clearly the spin of the bar about it's "relative center", requires some energy to get going, so the reverse linear impulse result is LESS than that of the "entirely linear" center impulse, so it won't completely cancel out the center "hit", resulting in thrust! Now in the GIT, Thor, and later variants like the ALFA, we reverse the torque (slow down an achieved spin acceleration on the first side, so we don't need to accelerate spin to infinity! :), and with both sides of the cycle alternating in torque direction, they sum to an external linear imbalance of forces to our universe, and thus, thrust!
In my email communications, after two years of hammering away at the current (and false) motion physics assumptions, now more folks with extensive training in this field are adding to my education! Doctors, physicists, and engineers, are now clearly interested, though many are still stuck in the old paradigm rather firmly. I was made aware that I was using the term "angular momentum" in deviation from current definition! Hey, I live in the real world, and walked away from physics when I felt it was lying to me. The assignment of an angular path to actors that do not have it, just didn't occur to me! I suppose that may be why I was allowed to invent this device series, since I don't have the standard set of blinders that "higher education" in this field affords! :)
I've tried to get those who insist that the swing arm torque test will not work because of "solid knowlege", to at least try holding an electric drill by the end of the handle, say with a sanding disk or some other large mass to increase angular moment. This will allow them to see the partially linear result from an entirely angular spin acceleration (it begins swinging around the pivot point, a part linear, part angular result). Several are convinced of their knowlege, and won't bother with even that simple test. Those not completely arrogant and sure of themselves and knowlege WILL, and they will be the ones our new paradigm will recognize as intelligent and forward looking!
The current definition of angular momentum is entirely relative among masses that might interact in a billiard ball collision action, but there is NO concern or definition given to the rest of the universe in this little play, so of course, the current "standard" math will NOT find the thrust on paper, that we are finding in reality! There is currently no way to relate the "pocket universe" actions and reactions of discrete masses to the universe at large! Without a means to determine actual (absolute) motions, there are no tools to show our real world characteristics!
SO, that is the challenge, find the math connection of momentum and accelerations to OUR universe by these carreening masses (as Einstein called it, the "universal frame of reference"), and you may help me topple the extremely limiting and FALSE assumptions that are preventing our "cheap space flight era"!
Well, that's enough for this update, sorry it took so long to get one posted (and thanks to those that wrote me to see if I was still alive! :), but this IS just a hobby for me now, and until better tests, or perhaps an investment offer is made, things will be slow for a while longer. I DO keep up with my email, and I really like it, so DO write if you feel like it! There are no stupid questions, other than the ones not asked! Better get this posted and send out an alert to my email groups, talk with you later!
10:20 am, Monday, 16 August 1999
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