Colin Quinney wrote: <snip> > What Schnurer suggested was that > the whole lifter assembly be enclosed inside a Faraday cage. > > By "whole assembly" he refers to the batteries that power the [also] > enclosed high voltage power supply plus the Lifter itself. > > By "Faraday cage" he meant a light weight metalized Mylar cage or sphere > that totally encloses the above assembly to prevent any ions escaping, and > to prevent any electric fields "extending" outside it's walls.
A faraday cage also keeps ambient electric fields from entering the cage. For that reason, I would think it is more desirable to leave the power supply outside the cage then inside the cage. > John never argued that there was no gravitational interaction. His argument > was only this; that if there was any gravitational effect, then unless the > above procedure was implemented, no balance scale on earth could discern it- > from the overwhelming ion and coulomb artefacts. > > We humans do have an amazing ability to fool ourselves when we "want to > believe", (and I include myself :) If we can fool ourselves, we can also cheat ourselves. ;-) Harry
