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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-05 01:33 AM
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Build Scientific Anti-Gravity Gadget Out of Crap Around House..
I read on a magic site: "By the way, there's scientific anti-gravity gadgets that you can build yourself out of crap from around the house."
QUESTION: Which crap?
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-05 02:16 AM
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1. I have some anti-gravity crap around my house that I bought
It's something called a "Levitron". It's a little spinning top made out of a metal magnet that hovers about 5 inches above a much larger concave magnet when you spin it at the right speed. You have to catch the "pocket" of the lower magnet's forcefield just right, but you can do it with practice. You can stick your hand underneath and all around it as it hovers in the air for about 2 or 3 minutes at a time. I don't know how you could build something like that, however.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 05:38 PM
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4. Is Levitron made by Hoover?
I wonder if you had an airtight room, got a big vacuum to suck
the air out, and then you'd have a vaccum. Then you could go into
the room and should be weightless, if you could get into the
room without letting air back in. If the vacuum hose was big
enough you could crawl back in it into the room at the same time
the air was getting sucked out of the room.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 06:16 PM
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5. I think gravity still works in a vacuum
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 06:19 PM by aint_no_life_nowhere
But the Levitron would probably stay suspended in the air a lot longer than 2 or 3 minutes in a vacuum. It slows down from the friction with the air.

But if you think that vacuuming out the air might do something or is worth exploring, maybe you could use just a crappy old vacuum cleaner from around your house. But then you'd have to find some other crap around the house that could shrink you down to the size where you'd fit through the nozzle of your vacuum cleaner.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 06:23 PM
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6. I'm talking about an ur-super-vacuum which sucks out gravity atoms.
As I understand it, gravity atoms cling to something and
make it fall. Without gravity atoms, it should stay up.
Otherwise, why would Levitron stay up longer in a vacuum?
The trick would still be to get something into a vacuum
without gravity atoms sneaking back in at the same time.
You couldn't leave the thing in there while vacuuming because
it would get sucked out too. You could nail the thing down
so it wouldnt get sucked out, but then it wouldnt be able to
float once everything else was vacuumed out.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 03:27 PM
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14. gravity has nothing to do with airlessness
gravity is described under Newtonian laws as a force caused by matter pulling other matter towards it, and by the Theory of Relativity as not a force, but an actual distortion of space which creates a "hole" in space that other matter falls into
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 03:40 PM
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15. Newton and Einstein are like the guys in grumpy old men.
Let's give them a break and turn them out to pasture
theoretical-wise. The new thing is gravity atoms. It's
better, it's more exciting, it's new, it's improved, and
it's mine.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-05 02:23 AM
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2. You know...
Edited on Sun Oct-02-05 02:26 AM by CanuckAmok
...the usual crap you have in your kitchen junk drawer:

heavy water

gamma rays

subatomic particles recovered from the singularity of a black hole

twine
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 05:35 PM
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3. What kind of twine?
I found the other stuff.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 08:02 PM
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7. LOL
:thumbsup:
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 11:46 PM
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8. This is a hard science thread.
Behave.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 02:01 AM
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9. It wasn't me.
Edited on Tue Oct-04-05 02:07 AM by btmlndfrmr
*titter* *titter* from the back of the room.

While a string should show normal Newtonian inverse square law gravity at distances much larger than its loop-size, at short distances it should exert no gravitational attraction at all on objects close to it. But it distorts space in another way. Travel in a closed circular path around a length of cosmic string brings you back to your starting point before you have travelled a full 360o. For example, a string with 1.6 earth-masses per meter string would have a total angle for a closed loop encircling it of only about 350o.


On edit...Nylon.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 02:25 PM
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10. Would a regular hardware store have a nylon cosmic string?
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 02:29 PM
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11. It depends..
Which planet are you on?
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 03:41 PM
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16. Oscartron.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 04:30 PM
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21. try the Ace hardware ...
on Veiner and 8861th St.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 10:28 PM
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28. Shouldn't that be 8861st?
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 03:23 PM
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13. That's bull
Your theory is so dense not even intelligence can from it, in fact,

Your Mom is so fat that if one would calculate her Broglie-Wave-Length at the speed of 10^-50 m/s one would get 10^-90 .

Your Mom is so dumb that she tried to minimize a 12 variable function to a minimal sum of products expression using a karnaugh map instead of the Quine-McCluskey Algorithm.


Sorry not meant to flame but tell a joke.

The cosmic sting is not made of nylon
but made of hemp,
nylon has stretching properties
that make your mathematical postulation impossible.

But with Hemp?????????
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 04:43 PM
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23. Your mother sews socks that smell...
Edited on Tue Oct-04-05 04:44 PM by btmlndfrmr
back at ya ;)

Hemp is the prefered choice but after that thingie with DOW and Hearst in the thirties... we went to the special non strecthing nylon which you can only get on Uranus in this Solar system.. But you have to go to ...not our own but ....Hardware Hanks ...thats it.

Indeed Hemp or ditchweed. Both perhaps.
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 05:04 PM
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25. Your momma is so skinny
that she just provided the mathematical and physical proof of sting theory.
Back at you
:hi: ;-) ;-)
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 05:07 PM
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26. Doh!
:thumbsup:
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 02:34 PM
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12. Biefeld-Brown effect discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown in 1928.


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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 03:43 PM
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17. 1928, eh, let's get up to date.
Where can I rent one of those LifterCrafts for a few days?
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 04:00 PM
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18. Where else would you think?
FRANCE !!! no really, it is french
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 04:13 PM
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19. Who would you rather drive across the country with,
the Coneheads, or gravity?
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 04:22 PM
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20. Sorry, it has to be in France it is not available over here yet.
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/lifters/maximus2/index.htm
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 04:33 PM
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22. WATCH THIS VIDEO NOW! ANTI-GRAVITY MACHINE!
Edited on Tue Oct-04-05 04:38 PM by A-Schwarzenegger
I could see the gravity atoms shaking and falling off it.
It looks like something my grandma cooled pies on.
Beautiful, mystical, delicate, and shiny, all my
favorite things. The video is astrotastical. I am
leaving for France immediately.
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 04:53 PM
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24. Yeah, this guy is a considered a genius and a nut in France
depending on who doing the talking.

He's sort of like a Nikola Tesla, who I consider one of the greatest scientific minds of all times,

But, I am fascinated by some of the science he bring up and the questions that he explores.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 10:27 PM
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27. France is the birthplace of both anti-gravity & Jerry Lewis.
How can you go wrong?
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JustJoe Donating Member (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 04:06 PM
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29. Jerry Lewis was born in Newark.
If you can't even get that right why should anybody trust you about gravity atoms?
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