Hi Jerry,
Mike Watson and Don Watson (no relation) delivered a joint lecture at the
'94 Symposium in Denver. I've stayed in contact with Mike, he has wavered
from a believer to a sceptic, and back again. While in Denver in '94 I had
long late night chats with both Don and Mike about what they were doing and
their relationship with Sparky Sweet. Both thought Sweet a wiley old cudger
(thanks Dr.J) that did'nt think twice about making them jump through hoops
if it suited him. The general concensus was that Sweet really did'nt
understand how his device worked - in fact sometimes it did'nt. The magnet
'programming' was stated to be very sensitive and the process was 'spooky'.
Don Watson refused to exhibit a working device at the symposium because, he
claimed, he could not guarantee that the 'programmed' magnets would survive
the trip in. He did not want to look a fool, in his words, if the thing
did'nt work at the symposium. Mike Watson had never gotten the thing to
work over many months of experimenting, aside from a brief 10 second burst
of power from the device, which he was unable to replicate (this drove him
to distraction, as you might expect). Personally I found Don a rather
strange and paranoid guy - fun to talk to though. Mike is very down to earth.
It is interesting to note that Walter Rosenthal stated point blank to me
that he had witnessed Don's device working and that for a period of 2 weeks
(from memory) Don was lighting a 60 Watt house bulb on the output of the
magnet/coil device with a 9 volt transistor radio battery input power source.
When I arrived home from that symposium I set up a magnet 'zapping' rig to
further explore the magnetic bubble effect that Mike and Don had spoken
about and shown. These tests resulted in my replication of the 'bubble
effect' and were interesting in that at least part of the process advocated
by Sweet seemed to work. I could never get any power out of the setup
outlined by Don, though.
Bill.
P.S. while at the 'retreat' prior to the '94 symposium both Searle and
Thomas were canvassing for a HUGE amount of money to build their 'searle
effect generator'. I put it to Searle that if he would demonstrate the
fundimental effect of one magnet rotating around another magnet, as
outlined by Searle in the past, then I for one would come work for them for
nothing. This fundimental effect would not cost much to demonstrate.
Apparently these days you can't demonstrate this 'simple effect' anymore.
You have to build a huge expensive machine or "it just won't work". My, My,
how times change.