Re: How a gyro works/Weight Loss

John Berry ( antigrav@ihug.co.nz )
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:23:52 +1300

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As the gyro orbits around the string there is a centrifugal force created,
the force is greater on the bottom half of the gyro as the rotation of
the gyro increases the tangential velocity of the bottom half and lessens
the tangential velocity of the top half creating a torque that pushes the
gyro up, in the diagram below that is in a clockwise direction.
<BR>&nbsp;<TT></TT>

<P><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l</TT>
<BR><TT>------------&nbsp; -the gyro is orbiting the string in an</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
anti-clockwise direction as seen from above</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;I</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;I -the bottom half of the gyro is travelling out of the screen</TT>
<BR><TT></TT>&nbsp;

<P>John Berry

<P>Dr Jones wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>At 01:00 28/01/98 -0800, you wrote:
<BR>>
<BR>>You wrote;
<BR>>>&nbsp; Where did the weight of the spinning mass go as it was lifted
with
<BR>>>&nbsp; ease?
<BR>>
<BR>Upon an interview with DePalma, he concluded by showing me a typical
<BR>gyroscope. The central wheel was spun, and the frame suspended from
a string
<BR>at one end as so:

<P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
l
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
l
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -------------
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
I
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
I

<P>where the I's are the central wheel when spinning and the l's are the
string
<BR>on which it is suspended. As can be seen, the device is not balanced
like
<BR>the normal distance x mass = ditance x mass. When the wheel slows and
<BR>eventually stops, the gyroscope falls to the ground.

<P>They said they were going to send me a URL where these were obtainable
on
<BR>the Web; I think they forgot.

<P>I asked my cousin about this, he said that they'd done it at school
and its
<BR>called rotational inertia (or something like that). I didn't get a
*why* it
<BR>happens, just a *it happens*.

<P>Dr Jones</BLOCKQUOTE>
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Well I don't think that the weight went anywhere in Laithwaites case, Were
there any scales?

As for party levitation I have always been fascinated by it and only wonder
how this could be turned into an antigravity device, there is no obvious
means.

John Berry

Jerry W. Decker wrote:

> Hi John!
>
> Sounds good, but in Laithwaites case, that still doesn't answer where did
> the weight GO? The party levitation also gave a weight loss of <50
> pounds. That had no spin, though there is the possibility the scale,
> being able to measure 800 pounds might be bumped a bit.
>
> Definitely room to test the party levitation test again also, under more
> controlled conditions and better collection of data. Such as the weight
> of each participant, singly and when combined on the scale, before,
> during and after.
>
> To my mind, 52 pounds is quite a weight loss...I wish they had stated the
> weight of the person being lifted. I just can't see it being anything
> remotely like res or expiration.
>
> I'll dig out my gyroscope and try some experiments....seems like its
> always easier to type in explanations than do experiments...and I'm
> guilty of that myself (just ask Dan, he's on me all the time about doing
> something REAL..<g>..)....however, this one is easy to test empirically.
>
> Surely the experiment HAS been done before, we ain't that bright or that
> original, maybe a bit more open (gullible in some views) to at least
> trying it.
> --
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