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

Robert Bowmaker wrote:
> 
> "GreyCloud" <mis...@cumulus.com> wrote in message
> news:3C9...@cumulus.com...
> > Robert Bowmaker wrote:
> > >
> > > "Charlie Ebert" <kd5...@mmcable.com> wrote in message
> > > news: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.
> > >
> > > It's been proven BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT.
> >
> > URL please.
> >
> > > The theory seems to fit
> > > electricity's properties perfectly. Maybe it's not absolutely proven,
> but it
> > > works so well (i.e. it predicts everything that really happes perfectly)
> > > that it doesn't really matter if it's proven or not. The same can not be
> > > said for gravity, though. We don't have a clue about gravity at all, no
> > > theories that really help explain it. Except of course for Superstring
> > > Theory (that's another thread by itself!). Perhaps when Superstring
> Theory
> > > is 'finished', we'll be able to have anti-gravity things, teleporters,
> time
> > > travel (!)... But until then, it might be best to leave all the serious
> > > speculating to the scientist.
> > >
> > > Also, the lifter needs ~15,000V (from memory) of electricity to work. If
> you
> > > scaled this 'lifter' up by a factor of 10 in all directions, would you
> still
> > > only need 15,000V? Or would you need 150,000V? Or even 15,000,000V? It
> > > starts to get impractical.
> > >
> > So?  What makes you think that 15megavolts is impractical?
> > Tesla did this a long time ago.
> 
> The 15000V was produced by a large power supply, which is quite heavy
> (~500g - 1kg - even more???). It managed to lift just a few grams of
> aluminium foil and balsa wood. For it to become self-sufficient (i.e. can
> lift up its own power source), it will need to produce a lot more voltage (I
> think lifting power is proportional to voltage). For it to produce more
> voltage, it will need to be even heavier, which in turn will need more
> voltage to lift, etc... etc... - and that's before it's started to lift any
> cargo of any sort!
> 

Why not use a van-de-graph generator??

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