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[Remi Cornwall]

Vortex,   I guess you are working on the premise it’s correct let’s work out the logical implications. Whereas I was working on Andrea Rathke’s lead that the chap has got his group and phase velocities confused http://uk.geocities.com/remicornwall/ElectromagneticPropulsion.htm Following Robin’s suggestion that he believes in UFOs and I believe many friends and sane people who said they have seen these things and the sort of consistent thread of lights, buzzing sounds, static electricity effects, interference, being knocked out of the skies by radar, I believe that it is possible to push against some ‘substrate’ of the universe that is very massive. It is present in all inertial frames and alleviates concerns about momenergy conservation – all the KE ends up with the craft. I will do some work here.   I don’t think Shawyer is yet correct he is going down the experimentalist route and as such he needs to do superlative experimental work, which he isn’t.   I think the Graham and Lahoz paper is prophetic, I’ll quote from it again: Graham and Lahoz, "Observation of static electromagnetic angular momentum in vacuo", Nature Vol. 285, 154 (1980): "It is remarkable that no know 'particle' can be identified as the agent of the observed electromagnetic angular momentum in the exchange with the mechanical detector. However, this does not imply that a new entity has to be introduced, because the concept of energy-momentum carried by macroscopic quasi-static (italics mine) electromagnetic field is already contained in Maxwell's equations. According to these, and as directly implied by our experimental result, permanent magnets and electrets can be used to build a flywheel of electromagnetic energy steadily flowing in circles in the vacuum gap of a capacitor as if Maxwell's medium were endowed with a property corresponding to super-fluidity (italics mine). The certainly new insight is that the quasi-static Maxwell's field is not merely an unobservable medium of interaction between matter and matter: it has in fact the mechanical properties postulated by Maxwell, in contradistinction to any 'action at a distance' theory." I’m a phenomena man: give me a way in with a well known phenomena and I’ll fix the theory. Correct me if I’m wrong but there is nothing about static induction fields in QED (“no known particle”) and this effect is purely classical which means that the above average engineer can probably get a handle on it.   To me radiation fields are not the answer (Shawyer’s problem is with group and phase velocities – he must answer Andrea Rathke’s suggestion) but *induction fields* you need an electret or a static electric field at some point.   I haven’t done any work on this for yonks but I will see if I can take it beyond the theoretic-engineering level into nuts and bolts and I might then liaise with Shawyer. Regards, Remi. …………………………………………. Website http://uk.geocities.com/remicornwall ………………………………………….