BREAKING THROUGH

A Matter of Gravity by Eugene F. Mallove, Sc.D.

A ntigravity has been an enduring

concern of human beings, long
before Isaac Newton in the
1680s proposed there was even such a
thing as universal gravitation
between every two pieces of matter in
ponentsthe one with which we are familiar, and a little bit
on top, which is like antigravity. In this instance, Close may
have been a lot closer to the truth than he could possibly
know! Read on. . .
Predating Podkletnov on the serious antigravity scene were
Japanese scientists H. Hayasaka and S. Tackeuchi, who pub-
the cosmos. Newton was first to express lished an extraordinary article in the mainstream journal
the magnitude of this all-pervading force with the simple for- Physical Review Letters (Vol. 63, 1989, p. 2701). They reported
mula, F = GmM/r2, which relates the force to the masses that that a rotating flywheel, spinning about a vertical axis in vac-
are gravitating (m and M) and the distance, r, between their uum, experienced a small weight loss that was directly pro-
centers. Long before there were airplanesthe most common portional to the rotation speed. The effect was observed only
antigravity machines of todaythere were flying birds and for rotation clockwise (as seen from above in their northern
insects, arrows and bullets that could be sent high, stones and hemisphere laboratory). As with the parallel physics heresy
spears that could be thrown upward, and soaring firework that emerged in 1989cold fusionthe Japanese anti-gravita-
rockets. None of these actually escaped gravitys clutches, of tional effect was buried in an avalanche of apparently rushed
course, all being destined to fall back or land on the ground. criticism and inadequate or flawed counter experiment. Unlike
This antigravity was indeed fleeting. cold fusion, however, there arose no widespread community of
Human beings wondered, no doubt for thousands of years, dedicated investigators and supporters of the positive result, so
whether they could ever have the kind of temporary antigrav- the controversy has been quite removed from public view. Our
ity common to most birds. Could we learn how to fly? The esteemed scientific advisor Dr. Harold Aspden, however, took
very century that finally gave us heavier-than-air flight (after it upon himself in 1989 to write a most rewarding paper, The
decades of dogmatism by many scientists that it would remain Theory of antigravity, published in Physical Essays (Vol. 4, No.
impossible) also delivered orbital spaceflight. That feat, 1, 1991, pp. 13-19). In his view, the rotational antigravity effect
achieved by the Russians in October 1957, had been proposed (if real) was probably the expected effect of vacuum medium,
by Sir Isaac himselfhis famous high-velocity cannonball i.e. ether, spin. Aspden wrote:
fired horizontally from a mountaintop. Combining what Sir
Isaac knew and advanced rocketry, humanity has haltingly The fact that the lift force depends upon the direction
begun to explore the wider universe. But. . .is there a better of spin is a clear indicator of the asymmetry arising
way? Could there be a real antigravity, something that from charge displacement. The authors theory of the
wouldnt be fleeting, something that would lastlike a gravi- vacuum field in terms of synchronous lattice electrody-
ty shield or a method to cancel or reduce gravitys bonds? namics specifies that there is a preferred spin direction
Apart from accounts in science fiction stories, our most in the vacuum. An action conductive to vacuum spin
recent encounter with perhaps genuine antigravity (or gravity will displace electric charge radially outwards or
shielding at least) was the rotating superconductor gravity inwards according to the orientation of the spin axis
shield of Eugene Podkletnov (who worked in Russia and relative to the preferred direction. However, such dis-
Finland), a story which broke in 1996 and even rated a full placement must be balanced by charge displacement
page in Business Week (September 30, 1996, p. 42). Infinite in matter, and electrons can flow outwards in a con-
Energys Christopher Tinsley wrote a haunting piece about this ductive flywheel to sit just outside the vacuum region
experiment and its extensive theoretical precursors, Table Top in spin, but positive ions cannot be so displaced.
Antigravity?, for IE #9 (July/August 1996). The Podkletnov Accordingly, the coextensive rotation of the vacuum
magnetically levitated superconductor was alleged to produce medium within a flywheel can only occur readily for
on the order of 2% to 5% weight reductions in a vertical zone one direction of spin, that which corresponds to the
several meters above it. The inimitable Tinsley even chose to rotation of the Sun and all the planets.
quote the infamous Prof. Frank Close, a scurrilous anti-cold
fusioneer (who was not frank and not even close about cold Aspden was able to calculate a rough correspondence from
fusion, I say). Paraphrasing and quoting Close from a BBC/The his ether theory with the weight loss function of angular rota-
Learning Channel production of that era, Chris wrote: He tion found by the Japanese investigators. Aspdens article cov-
said that possibly antigravity is closer to science fact than one ered much more ground, however, than the Japanese experi-
might think, and that in some theories gravity had two com- ment and its interpretation. He delved into the observations of

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unexplained anomalies in simple flywheels that were intro- on his excellent site (http://jnaudin.free.fr), seems to con-
duced by the late Eric Laithwaite at Londons Imperial firm that ion wind is not the thrusting mechanism for that
College of Science and Technology. This issue of macro- device (see also www.americanantigravity.com). The thruster
scopic antigravityor perhaps more properly termed of Hector Serrano of Gravitec, Inc. is in that lineage and was
mechanical reactionless thrusters that are alleged to be in granted international patent WO 00/58623, Propulsion
violation of Newtons Third Law (of action equaling reac- Device and Method Employing Electric Fields for Producing
tion)is a gigantic topic and controversy in its own right. It Thrust, October 5, 2000.
involves such figures as Robert Cook, whose thruster has My urgent suggestion to NASA is simply this: On the next
been tested with some success at Boeing (see IE #28 and #29) space shuttle flight out (Hah, fat chance!), carry up a half-
and many others from Norman Dean of Dean Drive fame dozen versions of T.T. Brown devices, asymmetrical capaci-
in the 1960s to B. Thornson. tors of recent vintage (inspired by the Transdimensional
A little known background to this antigravity matter in Technologies design), and Lafforgue and/or Serrano devices
the mainstream and not-so-mainstream is physicist Robert of recent vintage (NASA, please see photo on our cover for
L. Forwards discussion of Newtonian antigravity. Yes, in prin- blue-sky inspiration!). On orbit, sequentially deploy each
ciple it is quite possible to achieve an antigravity zone using device, equipped with its own power supply outside the
matter itself! In his imaginative book, Future Magic: How shuttle, and watch its movement. If it begins to accelerate
Todays Science Fiction Will Become Tomorrows Reality (Avon away from the shuttle in the vacuum of spacefast or ever-
Books, 1988), Forward notes that if a suitably dense mass so-slowly (because of the mass of the power supply)we
(white dwarf-star densityabout a million times greater have reactionless thrusting proved once and for all! Not
than normal densities!) could be supported at Earths surface much ion wind out there. (Yes, some vacuum chamber
(with columns of diamond strength or greater), the oppos- tests on terra firma have been done, but these are still mired
ing gravitational attractions between the super-dense mass in controversyone doesnt get a straight story.) But this
and Earths gravity field would produce a zone of zero-gravity would be much too simple (and cheap!) for NASA, which
under it. Forward calculated that a disc-shaped mass 45 cm in prefers to squander tens of millions on gravity probe tests
diameter and 10 cm thick, supported horizontally on Earth, of General Relativity and other probable mythologies.
would produce a zone of cancelled gravity underneath. Finally, we must confront a much more serious antigravity
Immediately above the disk would be a 2g downward field. matter. What if antigravity were very common and universal,
Technologically difficult as this would be, it establishes much more simple even than the asymmetrical capacitors seem
something like an existence proof for antigravity. Forward to be? What if antigravity were right under our very noses, and
also suggests using super-dense neutron-star-like fluid circu- we had been too mesmerized by the Fizzix Establishment to
lating in coils to produce antigravity (under what I regard as notice it? Well, ladies and gentlemen, it almost certainly is!
the very hazardous assumption that Einsteins General Regular readers of Infinite Energy know that this editor has spent
Theory of Relativity is a valid description of nature). Clever a great deal of time studying the exemplary work of Dr. Paulo
as these ideas are, they are beset with the same problem that and Alexandra Correa, of Toronto, Canada. If on their site,
confronts the hot fusioneers and their non-working toka- www.aetherometry.com, one reads my 2001 Letter of
maks. The solution to the problem of fusion is table-top and Support, one will find my description of an anti-gravitational
it is here already in prototype experiment form. The easy experiment that they performed for me in late August 2000 in
solution to antigravity is also table-top, and it too is here, their lab. A 43 milligram piece of gold leaf, which was sus-
albeit marginalized and ridiculed. pended by a dielectric thread from the arm of a wooden beam
We come to the fascinating lifter phenomenon, the sub- connected to a sensitive electronic balance (far off to the side),
ject of lengthy hands-on, build-one-yourself discussions else- was quickly reduced in apparent weight by 70%.
where in this issue (see pp. 13-29). These conceptually simple Now, this is, in gross antigravity performance, not as
asymmetrical capacitor devices (which NASA has just now good as the lifter phenomenon, but note well that there
patented!) certainly oppose gravity in their high-voltage- were no electrical connections whatever to the suspended
derived working. Hence, they are antigravity, in that sense, foil, merely the imposition of an electrical frequency
just like airplanes. These all have parentage in the patented between distant (from the gold leaf) metal plates adjusted to
devices of remarkable American inventor Thomas Townsend match that of the corresponding gold anti-graviton, as the
Brown (1905-1985). However, simple as these are, there persists Correas would call it. There were no ion wind issues in that
deep confusion and controversy about what precisely produces experiment. And, the result is far, far more profound than
the thrusting effects, which can support more than the weight the baroque claims of Podkletnov et al. arewith their rotat-
of the lifter itself. Furthermore, it is clear that thrusting occurs ing HTSC superconductor plate that NASA and other labs
in horizontal orientation too. So, unlike Podkletnov-like have still apparently failed to confirm. I honestly bless the
claims, this is not purported gravity shielding. HTSC antigravity people for trying to do good science amid
There have been unsuccessful attempts to correlate the the ignorant protests of Robert Park and his Voodoo scientist
lifter thrust with the admitted ion wind entrainment when ilk, but this HTSC antigravity approach does not get to the
these thrusters operate in air. Said ion wind seems to be a core of what gravity, and anti-gravity, may really be.
very small fraction of the total thrust effect, many have con- It turns out that the common gold leaf electroscope, sitting
cluded by calculation and experiment. And, there are other in virtually every high school lab, may be a perfect tool to
asymmetrical electric field-type thrusters, such as the Jean- investigate anti-gravitation. This is a much larger topic than
Claude Lafforgue device, which received French Patent No. can be covered in this very brief space (I promise a future arti-
2651388 in 1991, Isolated Systems Self-propelled by cle devoted to just this topic), but a close reading of the Correa
Electrostatic Forces. Testing by Jean-Louis Naudin, reported scientific monographs posted on www.aetherometry.com

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leads to the profoundly unsettling conclusion that a compo-
nent of the aether that they have identified (its latent heat
component) is constantly performing antigravitational work
UPCOMING EVENTS
on the moving electrons in the foil to keep the gold leaf sup-
ported, even when said leaf is in static positionheld apart
allegedly by only the static repulsion of the imposed charge (or The American College of Orgonomy
so conventional static electricity theory would have every-
one believe). Yes, if the Correas are correct, electroscopes may Premiere of Room for Happiness
be exemplars of antigravity at work. They are apparently per-
petual motion machines too. Energy is conserved, of course, A documentary film depicting the modern
but there is continuous expenditure of aether energy that goes
face of medical orgone therapy, pioneered
into just holding those leaves up, the Correas propose.
Professional skeptics will of course not devote one minute to by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, the first physician
the difficult study or experimentation with such claims, pre- to understand the mind-body connection.
ferring quick, glib dismissive remarks that suggest the topic is
off limits to rational investigation. Too bad for them.
The only problem with such a stance is that aether motors Cocktail Reception and Annual Dinner
(apparently self-running, from a mass-free aether energy com-
ponent) have been built and shown hands-on to over a dozen Saturday, October 19, 2002
individuals. Embedded in the operation of such motors is the
deep connection between electricity, gravity, and natures anti-
The Ritz-Carlton, New York City
gravity. At the Innovative Energy Technology conference in
Berlin (June 13-15, 2002), the Correas showed an excellent To register call (732)821-1144
video tape of such aether motor operation and distinguished Visit our website at www.orgonomy.org
their characteristics from their earlier patented PAGD (pulsed
abnormal glow discharge) motor work, as well as from
Wilhelm Reichs orgone motors in the 1950s (which were
not claimed to be self-running). The groundwork for the sci-
ence of such motors is already publicly available. Perhaps more Conference on
technical details of the motor construction will be made avail-
able too; website space has been allocated for that, one can ver-
ify from their outline. Patents have been applied for and are in
Energy and Accountability
process. On a shorter timeframe, it is likely that the one-hour The Ethics of Innovation, Suppression, and Crisis
video presentation for the German conference, which I have
previewed, will be made available commercially.
The effects of antigravity and its direct link to freely avail-
able energy, via the long-sought experimentally verifiable con- November 9-10, 2002
nection between electrical phenomena and gravity, will even- Holiday Inn
tually become common knowledge. But, most certainly, not College Park, MD
without a great fight. Science killers like Voodoo Park and his
groupies are out there to destroy novel science at every turn
. . .claims of antigravity devices seem to come up every few
years, only to fade away in a matter of weeks or months. . . For more information visit our website:
(p. 138, Voodoo Science). Park and kindred dark spirits intu- www.integrityresearchinstitute.org
itively understand the free energy implications of antigravity.
They have reason to fear it. They can hold it back, but they or e-mail us: [email protected]
can no more stop it than the light of day.

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