That brings up an interesting experiment, very easy to do...hmmm, where's
my gyroscope? How about attaching this string to a vertical scale that
is attached to the ceiling, then hook another string to a U shaped
hook....now attach the frame of the gyroscope to another short string
which also has a U shaped hook on it...
Spin the gyroscope to the best speed you can achieve, then quickly hook
the two Us together so that the gyroscope is suspended. Wouldn't it be
interesting if there was a column of weight that was in line with the
axis of this spinning gyroscope? To test that, simply attach the string
to the frame above the center shaft, then to the scale.
Here are simple experiments anyone can do, so let's get to it and report
back, who knows, YOU might be the one to figure out something we can all
scale up to something useful....
That's what this discussion list is FOR, discussion, a bit'o'speriments
and report back for ideas or thoughts to better it. I bought one of
those spring scales at a local hardware store, I think it is rated at 25
pounds or so and cost around $15 or $20.
This might be a bit 'tight' and the weight loss surely won't impact such
a heavy scale...perhaps I could counterbalance it to make it a bit more
sensitive....another option is to use a bowl that is on a flat postal
scale that reads in ounces....zero out the scale with the bowl on the
tray.
Measure the weight of the gyroscope when not spinning, then spin it up
and measure again. Did it measurably lose any weight? It it didn't,
we're all dreaming again...<g>...or, or, or, perhaps it would only be a
gram or so weight loss....remember the Japanese spinning object, I
excerpted their results, realize this is only dropping it, not measuring
it on a scale...
The following is extracted from; http://keelynet.com/gravity/gyroag.htm ;
The principle behind the experiment is very simple. After spinning up the
gyroscope to 18,000 revolutions per minute, it is put inside an airtight
container and allowed to fall between two laser beams. These record how
long the gyroscope takes to fall nearly 6ft between the two beams. Any
reduction in the strength of gravity reveals itself in a slight increase
in the time it takes to fall the 6ft.
In a series of 10 runs, the team found that the gyroscope took about
1/25,000 of a second longer to fall when it was spinning than when it was
stationary - equivalent to an anti-gravity effect of just one part in
7,000.
And in a curious twist, the anti-gravity only appeared when the gyroscope
was spinning anticlockwise. The team members claim that both this, and
the size of the effect, are in line with earlier findings published by
them in 1989.
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