Echoes of Biefeld-Brown: Mike McCulloch and Quantized Inertia
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:28 am
Every now and then a ghostly echo of one of several of Townsend's anomalous forces rears its head in the publically-available literature. Here's a very recent one that appears to be similar to Townsend's original 1920s "Biefeld-Brown Effect": a force towards one of the poles of a symmetric capacitor.
(Not to be confused with Townsend's other, apparently almost completely unrelated, anomalous force, involving a force towards the small or large side of an asymmetric capacitor. Nor the anomalous force which that manifests when a capacitor is charging or discharging rapidly - yet which, also seems to be what Townsend first claimed in the 1920s, and then was mentioned again in the early 2000s by Jeffrey and Susan Cameron's Transdimensional Technologies of Alabama, who started the brief flurry of Internet interest in "Lifters". Nor the force associated with a massive capacitor energised with radio frequency AC, producing "gravitational waves" of a kind which Misner, Thorne, Wheeler and the LIGO Consortium certainly wouldn't recognise as such, but Nikola Tesla might have, and possibly Ning Li. Mind you, these might all be one force - but they all seem to be described very differently.)
This particular researcher is Mike McCulloch, and as usual for the Townsend Brown beat, he has his own, almost completely unique, theoretical framework and explanation for why there should be a force on a capacitor. His explanation - which seems not along any of Townsend's own theoretical lines - has to do with quantum mechanics and the horizon of the universe. It all sounds very Mach Effect-y, yet not much like James Woodward's ideas either.
Here he is three months ago: November 2022.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com ... -cusp.html
(Not to be confused with Townsend's other, apparently almost completely unrelated, anomalous force, involving a force towards the small or large side of an asymmetric capacitor. Nor the anomalous force which that manifests when a capacitor is charging or discharging rapidly - yet which, also seems to be what Townsend first claimed in the 1920s, and then was mentioned again in the early 2000s by Jeffrey and Susan Cameron's Transdimensional Technologies of Alabama, who started the brief flurry of Internet interest in "Lifters". Nor the force associated with a massive capacitor energised with radio frequency AC, producing "gravitational waves" of a kind which Misner, Thorne, Wheeler and the LIGO Consortium certainly wouldn't recognise as such, but Nikola Tesla might have, and possibly Ning Li. Mind you, these might all be one force - but they all seem to be described very differently.)
This particular researcher is Mike McCulloch, and as usual for the Townsend Brown beat, he has his own, almost completely unique, theoretical framework and explanation for why there should be a force on a capacitor. His explanation - which seems not along any of Townsend's own theoretical lines - has to do with quantum mechanics and the horizon of the universe. It all sounds very Mach Effect-y, yet not much like James Woodward's ideas either.
Here he is three months ago: November 2022.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com ... -cusp.html
Thursday, 24 November 2022
On the Cusp?
For the past five months my Chief Engineer (Richard Arundal) and myself have been busy in the lab attempting to prove that one can extract propellant-less thrust from a capacitor by using quantised inertia. QI thrust is implied theoretically (McCulloch, 2013, 2017), but a capacitor approach was first suggested and tested by Becker and Bhatt (2018) who had read my paper on thrust and dielectrics (2017) and did some lab tests in liaison with me. Their work has been seconded by Mansell/IVO Ltd.
Curious to test this approach I used the last remaining DARPA money to set up a lab at Plymouth University, hiring Richard. What we now have in the lab is shown above, with a few details withheld for IP reasons. The capacitor (blue plates with orange dielectric) is placed on an insulating tower on a digital balance on a heavy damping plate. The capacitor is charged up to 5 kV with a HiPot tester (on top) via wires that pass their current through Galinstan, a cool liquid metal that breaks the physical connection to the outside world and allows the capacitor to ‘float free’ on the balance.
For the past month we have been struggling with an unwanted electrostatic force, but we noticed an asymmetry as we flipped the capacitor. Recently I have looked at all the data and used maths (including matrix algebra, that I always wanted to use for something useful!) to separate out the EM force from the asymmetrical one. This extracted force is towards the anode and looks like QI. It is about 10 milligrams, only 1/3 of the force predicted (McCulloch, 2021) but there are good reasons why that might be, and we will now look at those.
In short, unless we can think of another effect that could cause a force towards the anode, then we have it and the transport & energy industry will never be the same.
References
Becker, F.M. and A.S. Bhatt, 2018. Electrostatic accelerated electrons within symmetric capacitors during field emission condition events exert bidirectional propellant-less thrust. Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04368
McCulloch, M.E., 2013. Inertia from an asymmetric Casimir effect. EPL, 101, 59001. https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2775
McCulloch, M.E., 2017. Testing quantised inertia on emdrives with dielectrics. EPL, 118, 34003. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1 ... /118/34003
McCulloch., 2021. Thrust from symmetrical capacitors. Preprint: https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ed_Inertia (submitted to Adv.Sp. Res.)