…that capacitors can fly? Found a mention of Townsend Brown in article at the ZPEnergy.com website: It was my good fortune to discover an active underground of new ideas and old ideas resurfacing. Mr Townsend-Brown’s asymmetrical capacitance high-voltage lifters are particularly interesting devices. I never in my wildest dreams imagined a capacitor could fly !!!
No sooner had I posted the previous item about the “gravitoelectric effect” than another article showed up on my desktop, courtesy my friends over at the fusor.net forums. The online journal of the European Space Agency reported on March 23 that scientists working for the ESA “believe they may have measured the gravitational equivalent of
(Please make sure you read to the end of this post, it doesn’t get really interesting until the last few paragraphs. And please post any comments to the forums.) I think I’ve mentioned previously that I’m not quite sure what to make of Tim Ventura, who operates the American Antigravity website and has done an
I’ve also just posted a link to a story I heard on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday afternoon which describes an astronomer’s discovery that Einstein’s “Cosmological Constant” (aka ‘quantum vacuum energy’) may not be so constant after all. This discovery is — for reasons the story does not make altogether clear — giving rise to
This one came across my desk last week: Link: Patent issued for anti-gravity device. …and I have seen the same article a couple of times since. I’m not sure what to make of the story. But I figured if you haven’t heard about it yet, you could hear it here first. The thing I find
Yesterday I was doing some reading and research on the history of electricity, and was rather surprised to learn the name of Hans Christian Oersted — who was the first to make the connection between electricity and magnetism in 1820. I say I was “surprised” because until I encountered Oersted, my recollection was that it
Ah, the first day of “standard” time. What bizarre concept, daylight “savings” time. I wonder, how much time have I actually “saved,” and is there is a “time bank” where I can make a withdrawal the next time I need a few extra hours… ? I don’t know if it was the time-shift or what
“Another country heard from” was one of Townsend Brown’s favorite expressions. According to an old associate who heard him use it any number of times, “the expression usually meant that someone else had chimed in who you didn’t expect to hear from; the phrase ‘another country heard from’ told you immediately what was going on without more explanations.”
Consider this website “A work in progress… dedicated to a work in progress.” About two and a half years ago, I set out to write a biography of a man named Thomas Townsend Brown. Initially, the intent was to produce a sequel of sorts to my first biography of an “obscure 20th century scientist” —
