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Originally posted by Mary Rose
A website called Pure Energy Systems, in a report entitled "2009 ExtraOrdinary Technology conference report," has this to say about Haramein:
On Friday evening we had a surprise speaker, Nassim Haramein. His working title was "Black Hole Protons".
Both black hole solutions are mathematically legitimate, and only experiment or observation can reveal the nature of the infalling radial motion of a particle into a physical black hole. Since the two solutions are indistinguishable for distant observers, which can see only the exterior sheet, the nature of the interior of a physical black hole cannot be satisfactorily determined, unless an observer enters or resides in the interior region. This condition would be satisfied if our Universe were the interior of a black hole existing in a bigger universe [21].
Originally posted by buddhasystem
reply to post by Arbitrageur
Did you noticed the mention of bevatron in this crap publication? The Bevatron is a venerable machine which had its day in mid-50s. To assign discovery potential to that apparatus in the late years of 20th century does seem abnormal to point of idiocy.
American interest in "gravity control propulsion research" intensified during the early 1950s. Literature from that period used the terms anti-gravity, anti-gravitation....
None of the reported experimental breakthroughs published during the 1950s and 1960s have been recognized by the aerospace community.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
If you posted this thread in metaphysics I'd probably let it slide but since you posted it in science and technology, then like anything claiming to be science, it must stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Nassim Haramein - Fraud or Sage?
The reason I want to 'debunk' him is because he's wrong. I teach physics and maths to students, and I think it's important to let them know when something is wrong. It's important to be able to tell truth from falsehood - if we don't, then we lose sight of truth altogether. I don't like it when someone pretends to have insights into the laws of physics that all the scientists of the world are supposedly too dumb to have realised, but in fact has nothing but charisma and a silvery tongue...
I like silly, entertaining stories as much as the next person, that's why I'm a fan of science fiction. I also am a fan of science fact...
I don't like it when someone pretends to have insights into the laws of physics that all the scientists of the world are supposedly too dumb to have realised, but in fact has nothing but charisma and a silvery tongue...
Originally posted by beebs
First successful anti-grav tests were in the late 60's... that we know about...
1. No attempts to control the magnitude or direction of the earth's
gravitational force have yet been successful.
Conclusion: Unsolicited submissions of claimed breakthroughs that are based on errant interpretations of mechanical forces are common.
Five years ago, while testing a superconducting ceramic disc by rotating it above powerful electromagnets, Podkletnov noticed something extremely strange. Small objects above the disc seemed to lose weight, as if they were being shielded from the pull of Planet Earth. The weight reduction was small - around 2 percent - but nothing like this had ever been observed before. If the shielding effect could be refined and intensified, the implications would be immense. In fact, practical, affordable gravity nullification could change our lives more radically than the invention of the internal combustion engine.
In the United States, scientists affiliated with NASA were thinking along similar lines. They obtained funding to replicate Podkletnov's experiment -
Podkletnov now claims that his results have been verified by researchers at two universities - but he won't name these people for fear that they'll be ridiculed and ruined by the gravity establishment. The team at NASA make no secret of their work - but they have no definite results, yet. And so, at this time, the only credentialed scientist claiming to have witnessed gravity modification is Podkletnov himself.
A man named John Schnurer, at Antioch College, Ohio, said that his homemade setup could reduce the force of gravity by 2 percent on a reliable, repeatable basis.
Schnurer, however, was eager to begin. He showed me his "target mass" (a bundle of seven glass rods), which he placed ceremoniously on a borrowed digital scale. He noted the readout: 27 grams. Then he picked up a small tank of liquid nitrogen - my liquid nitrogen, I realized, feeling a bit pissed about it - and he poured a portion into a Dewar flask. The liquid hissed like oil in a hot frying pan as it boiled violently at room temperature. We waited a few minutes for the clouds of white vapor to die down.
"Now!" said Schnurer. He lowered the electromagnets, disc, and target mass into the Dewar flask, to cool the disc so that its electrical resistance would diminish to zero. Then he placed the lump of scrap metal on the scale, to read the difference in weight between it and the assembly in the Dewar flask. The numbers flickered wildly, responding to thermal currents in the liquid, air currents in the room, vibration from a truck passing on the road a couple hundred feet away, and a dozen other random factors. Still, a substantial weight reduction would make these small fluctuations irrelevant. "We'll call the weight 20.68," Schnurer said, scribbling the figure.
He went to his copper contacts and started manipulating them to send pulses to the electromagnets. I watched the scale - and suddenly felt as if reality was warping around me, because the numbers began changing. According to the scale, the target mass was getting lighter.
"Write down the peak value!" Schnurer alerted me.
The numbers were still jumping, but I averaged them as well as I could. Schnurer grabbed his scrap of paper, did a subtraction, divided the result by the original weight of the target mass, and got his answer: here in this funky little workshop, the force of gravity had just been reduced by 2 percent.
"Let me try that," I said, pointing to the copper contacts. Schnurer stepped aside, looking somewhat reluctant; but when I did what he had done, the results were the same.
"Maybe you should take a look over here," Norman Mauskopf remarked, nodding toward the superconductor where it dangled in the liquid nitrogen. I realized with chagrin that I had been totally hypnotized by the red LEDs on the scale. When I turned my attention to the flask, I saw what I should have seen before: electricity flowing through the submerged coils was creating heat that made the frigid liquid boil. Just as eggs bounce around when you boil them in a saucepan, the superconductor and its target mass were being lifted by bubbles. We weren't measuring gravity reduction, here, we were conducting an experiment in cryogenic cookery!
I pointed this out to Schnurer. He looked annoyed - then indifferent, and I realized that there was still no doubt in his mind, because he was a True Believer. He knew he was modifying gravity. "So we'll lift it out of the liquid nitrogen," he said. "It'll stay cold enough for the effect to work for 15 or 30 seconds. And you'll see, it will still get lighter."
We tried it, and sure enough the assembly lost weight. But it had dragged some liquid nitrogen with it from the flask, and was steaming madly. This was now the source of weight loss, just as damp clothes become lighter as they dry on a washing line.
"John, you're not measuring gravity fluctuations," I told him. "You're measuring the effects of boiling and evaporation."
Schnurer was now visibly agitated. He wanted to run the experiment again. And again. He varied the target mass, scribbled more numbers on odd scraps of paper - after a while there were so many scraps, he lost track of which was which. For several hours he tried every conceivable configuration.
While waiting patiently to see how long it might take him to admit defeat, I noticed a page from Business Week lying on his workbench. It was an article about gravity modification, mentioning Schnurer's work, illustrated with a photograph taken right here in this cramped little hobby-den - although false color and a wide-angle lens made the place look like a futuristic laboratory. Then I scanned the text and realized that this writer possessed the creative powers that I so sadly lacked. He seemed cautious and objective yet made Schnurer sound like a fully qualified scientist, even identifying him as "director of physics engineering at Antioch College."
I queried Schnurer about this. Gruffly he told me that he has never been employed by Antioch University; his workshop just happens to be near Antioch. With several partners, he runs a very small company named Physics Engineering, of which he's a director. Only in this sense can he be termed a director of Physics Engineering.
Around 9 p.m., we called it quits. I didn't enjoy being a heartless skeptic, questioning John Schnurer's credentials and debunking his dreams of refuting Einstein. I just wanted to go home.
Originally posted by beebs
He doesn't have to prove himself to you like you want him to.
He knows fake physics which exists only in his mind. I know the physics that can be proven with experiments and observations. You would be doing yourself a disservice to learn wrong things which can't be proven in any lab, you'd be much better off learning things which CAN be proven in a lab. Lab experiments and observations are methods we use to determine which ideas are true and which are false.
However, I would love for him to discuss physics with us. I think he knows it better than both of us.
Yes, but it's not because he doesn't have a degree that I have a problem with him. Rauscher does and some of the stuff she says is problematic too, like not knowing what the basic fundamental forces of physics are.
I don't have a degree. Do you?
I've watched all those before, I just watched a sampling to make sure they were the ones I've already seen.
As for Boyd Bushman... did you watch the entire videos I posted? Did you research him to make sure he is who he says he is?
Lenz's Law states that the magnetic field of any induced current opposes the change that induces it. Aluminium is not magnetic but does conduct electricity, so the locally induced currents in the aluminium oppose the field of the magnet. Slowing it down!
A coil of #22 magnet wire (5.5 inches in diameter w/ 100 turns) is energized with 120 volts AC (60 Hz) as it rests upon a .50" thick aluminum plate. As a result the coil will levitate as dictated by Lenz's Law. Unfortunately this design uses a tremendous amount of current and is prone to rapid heating. Further experimentation regarding coil size, voltage, frequency, and materials may improve its operation.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
He knows fake physics which exists only in his mind. I know the physics that can be proven with experiments and observations.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
He knows fake physics which exists only in his mind. I know the physics that can be proven with experiments and observations.
Maybe you are simply unaware of the experiments and observations that could be used.
Maybe there is a paradigm shift going on in physics which you don't yet grasp.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I am aware, that particle accelerators have already been used to confirm the relativistic mass increase of protons toward an infinite mass as they approach the speed of light, which have already proven Haramein's paper about protons traveling at the speed of light false.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I noticed you never answered my question about the peer-review status of his paper. It is because his paper violates known experiments and observations that it won't pass real peer review. He already got the only kind of peer review he's going to get, a bunch of computer geeks who don't know physics attending a computer conference with him. And for all we know the only reason his paper got "best paper" award in the physics category could have been because it was the ONLY paper in the physics category, in which case it could also be considered the worst paper in that category. Has anyone managed to find out if there were ANY other papers in the physics category at the computer conference?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I am aware, that particle accelerators have already been used to confirm the relativistic mass increase of protons toward an infinite mass as they approach the speed of light, which have already proven Haramein's paper about protons traveling at the speed of light false.
I personally do not trust your assertion that Haramein's paper has been proven false by any mainstream science particle accelerator experiment.
I don't trust mainstream science.
He may never get a peer-review of his theory. That wouldn't surprise me at all. I don't care. I'm not interested in mainstream peer-review.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
OK, if you don't care about the opinion of people who actually know a thing or two about physics, you really stepped into the realm of irrational.
But that's the whole point about science I've been trying to make. Not only shouldn't you trust what others say, but scientists don't automatically trust other scientists either. That's the whole idea behind replication of experiments and observations. If person A claims something is true, then person B isn't supposed to assume it's true, they are supposed to go prove it to themselves in a separate lab. That's where all the antigravity results have gotten stuck, none of the results have been replicated in other labs. John Hutchison can't even replicate his own results in his own lab.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I personally do not trust your assertion that Haramein's paper has been proven false by any mainstream science particle accelerator experiment.
Mainstream science and technology is under great pressure because of the power and influence of people such as Rockefeller who control grant money and who do not want free energy to emerge.
Peer-review and who attends conferences are beside the point if you're interested in thinking about physics on your own and discussing ideas.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Do you have reason to disbelieve independent, repeatable observations and experiments?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
If you are unwilling to do the basic research to see if what I say is true, it doesn't demonstrate what I said is false, it only demonstrates that you aren't interested in knowing the truth.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
If they are against free energy, why are they allowing the Atmos Clock to be produced? It uses no electricity or batteries, and never needs winding, it just runs forever without paying for any energy source.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
If Haramein were discussing crazy ideas on his own over some beers with some buddies I don't have any problem with that. However when he hosts lectures and starts "teaching" nonsense to the public at large, I have a little problem with that, and when he starts training an army of minions or "delegates" to go forth and spew his nonsense I have an even bigger problem with that.
Originally posted by beebs
What if the particles in the accelerator are already spinning at the speed of light, and we are unknowingly trying to accelerate them even faster, to a relative speed of light only relevant to our planet?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by buddhasystem
OK, if you don't care about the opinion of people who actually know a thing or two about physics, you really stepped into the realm of irrational.
Not so. AlienScientist knows physics. So does Beebs.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
What makes you think Beebs knows any physics? From where I stand, it looks like he's a complete zero in that area.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by buddhasystem
What makes you think Beebs knows any physics? From where I stand, it looks like he's a complete zero in that area.
Now your arrogance is becoming comical!!