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The research, based upon Thomas Townsend Brown's hypotheses, included the idea that electrogravitics could be used as a means of propulsion for aircraft and spacecraft. The field became popular in the mid-1950s, but rapidly declined in popularity thereafter. At one point, the Glenn L. Martin Company placed advertisements looking for scientists who were "interested in gravity". Electrogravitic processes use an electric field to charge an object and counteract the effects of gravity. Electrostatic levitation was used, for instance, in Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment and is used to suspend the gyroscopes in Gravity Probe B during launch. Due to Earnshaw's theorem, no static arrangement of classical electrostatic fields can be used to stably levitate an object. There is a point where the two fields cancel, but it is unstable. However, it is possible to use dynamically changing electric fields to hold an object in position. On the moon the photoelectric effect charges fine layers of dust on the surface forming an atmosphere of dust floating in "fountains" over the surface of the moon.
The Biefeld–Brown effect, discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown (USA) and Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld (CH), was researched during the 1950's and 1960's on the use of this electric propulsion effect during the publicized era of gravity control propulsion research. During 1964, Major De Seversky had in fact published a lot of his related work in U.S. Patent 3,130,945 , and with the aim to forestall any possible misunderstanding about these devices, had termed these flying machines as ionocrafts. In the following years, many promising concepts had to be abandoned and forgotten due to the technological limitations as well as those pesky laws of physics, but at the same time, science has advanced a lot in the EHD field. The effect has only recently become popular again and such flying devices are now known as EHD thrusters. Simple single-stage versions lifted by this effect are sometimes also called lifters.
Some, such as Byron Preiss, considered electrogravitics development to be "much ado about nothing, started by a bunch of engineers who didn't know enough physics" (which is a negative historical revision). Priess states that electrogravitics, like exobiology, is "a science without a single specimen for study" in his opinion.[2] This ignores ionocraft devices, commonly known as a lifters, and their development. These electrohydrodynamic devices produce thrust in the air using electrical energy without moving parts. Paul LaViolette continues to champion and publish Brown's hypotheses and ideas derived from them.
Emphasis added by me. Dr. Brown's work in electrogravitics is different than electrostatic lifters.
I am not sure it was air that was being "moved" as aether theory indicates that gravity is an effect of the cubic lattice pushing against particles to restrict their motion within the structure of that aether providing equilibrium.
Dr. Harold Aspden describes in his papers the structure of that cubic lattice which is in harmony with those that speak of tetrahedral dynamics (Richard Hoagland et. al.) and the Golden Rule/Sacred Geometry of many others.
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Electrostatics is the branch of science that deals with the phenomena arising from what seems to be stationary electric charges. Since ancient history it is known that some materials attract light particles after rubbing. The greek word for amber, ήλεκτρον (electron), gave name for many areas of natural science. Electrostatic phenomena arise from the forces that electric charges carry out on each other. Such forces are described by Coulomb's law. Electrostatic phenomena include such as simple as the attraction of plastic wrap to your hand after you remove it from a package to apparently spontaneous explosion of grain silos, to damage of electronic components during manufacturing, to the operation of photocopiers. Electrostatics involves the buildup of charge on the surface of objects due to contact with other surfaces. Although charge exchange happens whenever any two surfaces contact and separate, the effects of charge exchange are usually only noticed when at least one of the surfaces has a high resistance to electrical flow. This is because the charges that transfer to or from the highly resistive surface are more or less trapped there for a long enough time for their effects to be observed. These charges then remain on the object until they either bleed off to ground or are quickly neutralized by a discharge: e.g., the familiar phenomenon of a static 'shock' is caused by the neutralization of charge built up in the body from contact with nonconductive surfaces.
Again, I take exception the idea that charge can be stationary. Perhaps only in "relative" terms, based on the assumption that there is no flow of electric charge until on completes (closes) a circuit by which that charge has a path in which to flow.
But if that is the case (which I am certain it is NOT) then we have no hope of tapping that aether for the purpose of providing energy without fuels.
Fred