Re: Incredible! Anti-Gravity device works and is patented 01-31-2002

Followups.  (Should I instead send this subthread to sci.physics? :-) )

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Charlie Ebert
<kd5...@mmcable.com>
 wrote
on Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:18:07 -0600
<3C9...@mmcable.com>:
> Robert Bowmaker wrote:
>>>They don't even know how electricity works yet we use it every day.
>>>
>>>Nobody has EVER seen electricity nor understand the principles of what
>>>makes it work?  Which direction does electricity flow in?  Negative to
>>>positive poles or the other way around?
>>>
>>>They've never explained any of this and we've been using electricity
>>>for over a hundred years now.
>> 
>> 
>> Electricity happens when electrons travel from the negative
>> terminal to the positive terminal. Millions of people know that
>> for certain; I think you're a little behind.
>> 
>> The fact that we haven't seen electricity means that we can't use it. We
>> haven't seen covalent chemical bonding happen, yet we use it all the time!
>> 
> 
> This has NEVER been proven.  Thanks for playing.
> 
> They have never even seen electricity so they don't really know.

How does one "see" electricity, anyway?  We can't even determine
with our 5 senses whether water is wet!  We deduce it from:

- observing a cooling effect when a wet finger is exposed to moving air,
- looking at a meniscus in a test tube, and
- observing that one can pour water.

Note that water in a paraffin container has a different meniscus,
as does mercury (if one can still obtain it -- it was outlawed
in thermometers some time ago) in a glass container.  It might
be more accurate to say that "water wets glass" (adheres thereto),
but that "water does not wet paraffin" -- making the verb "to wet"
purely transitive. [*]

At best, one can sense a small electric shock, such as that caused
by rubbing one's feet on carpet on a dry day and approaching a
doorknob or other metal object with one's finger; one can feel
the spark jumping over and might even see the minute flash.
We can deduce that:

- electricity can flow from finger to metal, or from metal to finger
  (I forget precisely which; the principle employed here is occasionally
  used in Van de Graaf generators)
- electricity can ionize air, and
- ionized gas glows.

(The latter is used in a lot of lighting products, such as fluorescent
tubes and neon advertising signs; a variant is used in televisions
and fluorescent tubes (which are a two-stage process: the gas in a
tube glows with UV light which excites the phosphors coating the tube;
in a TV set the electrons excite the phosphors directly, after being
shot in a stream deflected (in most cases) by electromagnetic coils
wound around the neck of the tube [+]).)

[snip for brevity]

>> We're talking about the Beifeld-Brown effect, NOT OPERATING SYSTEMS!!!
>> There's another thread going on for that!
>> 
> 
> I'll look this up.  Thanks for being the ONLY OTHER person who's
> bothered to at least offer a theory.

I'm going to have to look this up as well.  At least one other poster
has commented on Telsa making his back yard a bright blue glowing
color, which corroborates with the Philadelphia experiment
giving the ship a bright green color.  However, I'm not sure how
much stock to put in either observation at this time.

[rest snipped]

[*] This usage is a slightly different meaning than "to wet oneself".  :-)

[+] Electrostatic deflection was used in the past.

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