| Eric Gisin 2005-10-15, 12:21 am |
| "News" <Nospam@here.com> wrote in message
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> Look at the story of Eric Laithwaite.
> http://cgi.bbc.co.uk/history/histor...aite_eric.shtml
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see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite.
> "His curiosity pricked, Laithwaite spent the next few years immersed in the
> world of gyroscopes. He gradually convinced himself that they did break
> known scientific laws and might be a new source of power. He decided to make
> this the subject of his prestigious Faraday Lecture at the Royal Institution
> in 1973.
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> He brought with him an array of gyroscopes, including one weighing 50lb that
> he spun up and raised effortlessly above his head with one hand, claiming it
> had lost weight and so contravened Newton's third law. The world of science
> was scandalised. For the first time in its history, the Royal Institution
> failed to publish the Faraday Lecture and Laithwaite's nomination for a
> Fellowship of the Royal Society was cancelled."
>
> Eric upset the established thinking and was instantly an outcast, despite
> being a brilliant man who invented the linear motor and Maglev train - he
> had an exceptional track record. He practically demonstrated that an object
> became lighter when spun. It could not be so, as their maths didn't agree.
> Of course it wasn't lighter. Of course he never picked up the 50 pound
> object with one hand. They wouldn't even publish the lecture pretending it
> never happened, the only one is history - that is how bad the scientific
> establishment is. Look on the web hard enough and you will see some of
> Laithwaites papers on gyros.
>
> A helicopter needs air around the rotors, a gyroscope doesn't and it can be
> in a vacuum. The ractionless drive, if on a vehicle can propel it along.
> This may take a small amount of electrical energy. Only a small amount of
> energy may give the same performance of a modern car or ship.
>
> Look up Laithwaites Reactionless Drive.
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Papers and Patents are irrelevant in "alternative science".
Where are the working models of this gyro propulsion system?
It should be trivial to reproduce the "50 pound gyro" demo. Anyone tried?
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