Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anti-grav

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Christian M. Cepel wrote:
> Interesting... Still haven't been able to make up my mind if it's a hoax 
> or not.
>
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_antigravity.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set= 

It might be an electromagnetic effect that is causing the levitation. 
Certainly I have seen levitation done this way.  But this would have 
nothing to do with gravity.

Brown claims he gets capacitors to jump when he quickly discharges them. 
 But discharging capacitors would certainly create some kind of 
magnetic field, and this would interact either with nearby metal, or 
perhaps with the earths magnetic field (I don't know for sure).

It is possible that when the "theory of everything" comes out which 
explains gravity, that a connection between gravity and electromagnetism 
might be found.  But I doubt that it is anything that 20,000 volts could 
produce, because they can't even get the big fancy particle accelerators 
they currently have to reveal anything about this kind of phenomina.

On the other hand, the interaction between electricity and magnetism is 
well known and understood.

Stephen

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