What exactly are electrogravitics?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the concept of electrogravitics, exploring its definition, implications, and historical context. Participants engage with the term in relation to anti-gravity devices, their scientific validity, and past experiments, particularly those associated with Thomas Townsend Brown.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest that 'electrogravitics' refers to a category of anti-gravity devices that utilize electrostatics to repel charged objects from a high tension source.
  • One participant expresses skepticism about the validity of electrogravitics, labeling it as rubbish and associating it with unproven inventions like those of Podkletnov.
  • Another participant discusses the specifics of Podkletnov's experiments, noting a reported 2.1% reduction in gravity and critiquing NASA's replication efforts as inadequate due to differing experimental setups.
  • A participant mentions that electrogravitics has been defined as a failed hypothesis proposed by Thomas Townsend Brown, referencing his experiments and demonstrations.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a range of views, with some supporting the idea of electrogravitics as a legitimate concept while others dismiss it as unproven or flawed. There is no consensus on the validity or scientific grounding of electrogravitics.

Contextual Notes

Discussions include references to specific experiments and critiques of methodologies, highlighting limitations in the replication of results and the challenges in validating the concept of electrogravitics.

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what exactly are electrogravitics?
 
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A new word.
 
Oo, oo, my go!

What exactly is quantasmutation?
 
masudr said:
A new word.


hardly!

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Did a quick websearch. It seems 'electrogravitics' is a general term applied to 'anti-gravity' devices (they probably proove GM wrong or something). Anywho, it's clear to see they just employ electrostatics to essentially repel a charged object from a high tension supply of some description.
 
IndustriaL said:
what exactly are electrogravitics?


don't pay any attention to such words...it is rubbish that has never been proven...i am sure this is another Podkletnov-invention

marlon
 
IndustriaL, do you want to defy gravity? Just stand up. It's amazing how your head doesn't fall under the influence of gravity.
 
I thought that podkletnov got at most a 2.1% reduction in 'gravity', No?

He had used a dual layer Yttrium barium copper oxide for the disk...From what I understood the two different layers (crystal structures) formed because of how quickly the one side of the disk was cooled. When NASA replicated his experiment they just generally assumed that since there is a very large conductive difference between the two layers, that they could use an entirely different element for one of the layers...for costs sake.

I am not as knowledgeable as some people on this forum I am sure, that aside I found NASA's review of his work to be piss-poor, and their saying that they found nothing is nearly worthless. I would have liked to see someone who took it seriously review it, not to discredit the hard working folks over @ NASA, but after reading through their review I came to the conclusion that should have tried to get ahold of the original disk in the first place...I am assuming that it is/was the property of Moscow U? Failing that if they could not fabricate it at least out of the same elements, then they should NOT have done the experiment at all! IMO they discredited his work with a setup that was destined to fail from the beginning.
 


As per an alternate thread.

FlexGunship said:
"Electrogravitic" already has a definition: Electrogravitics is a failed hypothesis proposed by Thomas Townsend Brown and Brown's subsequent extensive experimentation and demonstrations of the effect.
 
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Six year old thread, does not meet our current standards. Necroposts deleted, left flex's explanation in response to necroposts.
 
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