I believe Peter Graneau already verified that with his rail gun experiments. As I understand it, the momentum transferred to the target was more than the momentum applied by the rail gun. That could be explained as the mass of the pellet increasing as soon as it left the high current supplied by the rails. The effect can be amplified a million times using my idea of using a homopolar motor with half the brushes removed so the current is only flowing on one side of the rotor. That should offset the centrifugal force resulting in reactionless thrust.
Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US http://HoytStearns.com -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:3D time -----Original Message----- From: Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. It implies that when an electrical current is passed through a conductor creating a magnetic field, the mass of the conductor is reduced! [JB:] Provocative. Surely someone has tried this with a very large coil and a precision scale? Actually you would need to use a remote non-conductive balance beam, or something similar like rope pulleys - since any electrical conductor in the scale itself would be affected by the field, and would alter the reading -- but the simplicity of doing this experiment, and the fact he has not done it - would seem to indicate something? Jones
