Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:21:33 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] 1. If it is overpressure, why isn't it going out the easier path, between the PVC pipe and the steel sphere? It is not air tight...there's a decent gap there that one could stick a screwdriver in. Much

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Kyle Mcallister wrote: Hi, Okay, as per Horace's suggestion, made a crude spherical (er...kind of spherical) terminal out of two mixing bowls. Didn't go to WalMart, as that place frightens me, so I got them from Kmart. Duct taped them together at the seams, so as to make a crude corona

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:58:55 -0700 (PDT): [snip] I thought that in Podkletnov's experiment the device was a superconductor, and that the electron pairs in the superconductor were mandatory to getting an effect? The SC

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: I'm curious -- why is common grounded? Seems like a hand placed too near it would reward you with holes blown through the soles of your shoes as a result, no? Wouldn't it be safer to let the hot parts of the rig float? A few reasons why

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread Kyle Mcallister
All, Another update. Didn't get as much done today as I'd like, as I did end up getting pretty sick. Nevertheless, here's what I did and what I found. I took the original 'target' plate, connected to ground, and shielded it with a 7.75 square sheet of .125 plexiglass. A 1/2 hole was drilled in

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread mixent
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:41:44 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] The SC isn't required, supposedly. This is sort of a different experiment using normal conductors. The effect may be related, as John Berry speculates. Assuming of course that the effect even exists, and

[Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Hi, Okay, as per Horace's suggestion, made a crude spherical (er...kind of spherical) terminal out of two mixing bowls. Didn't go to WalMart, as that place frightens me, so I got them from Kmart. Duct taped them together at the seams, so as to make a crude corona seal. It works very well,

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:58:55 -0700 (PDT): Hi Kyle, [snip] In case anyone's wondering, I can do the same thing with +HV, I have an identical multiplier supply. But the suggestion from John Schnurer to Bill B. back in the day was that only a negative charged