My guess would be that, no there is not. As the one who was being lifted;
while it seemed a rather odd sensation; I didn't feel that my personal mass
or it's attendant weight was being affected; but rather it was the eather.
While the 'effects' appeared to us as weightlessness, this was really a
symptom, rather than the disease!
So! Were I a betting man, my money would be on the disruption of the eather
surrounding my mass; which made moving my mass through the eather /
gravitational field easier.
Stephen Brummitt
dev@icx.net
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At 10:46 PM 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>It described a young girl who worked in a carnival sideshow. Her
>>'talent' was she could do some mental trick so that no one could move
>>her. The book says several burly men would try to pick her up or gently
>>push her over and she would not budge.
>
>The laws of physics and leverage, you can get leverage on a stiff object,
>but a mass of goo is hard to carry, WWF wrestlers use these principles all
>the time (or did you think that stuff was real - grin)
>
>>There are Chi Quong and yogic masters who also claim this ability. One
>>book said they altered their center of gravity by focussing all their
>>weight on this area below the navel.
>
>I would assume with the right position and tension of muscles this is easily
>possible by anyone. I remember hearing about a book called "body magic"
>where you could do seemingly amazing things with your body applying physical
>laws and principles.
>
>>Now, it might appear I'm getting way too excited about this but here's
>>why. I found an article about a fellow in Kansas around 1850 who woke
>>up one day and found himself stuck to the ceiling of his bedroom. Stuck
>>is probably the wrong word, he was floating up against the ceiling.
>
>We need more detail, any more reports or data or his name? Why only one
>person, why are there not other people able to do this?
>
>>The family was consulted along with doctors and no one could explain
>>this peculiar buoyancy.
>
>Perhaps something happened to him electrically that caused him to float?
>
>>Now,laugh as you will, but I add this to my arsenal indicating gravity
>>can be controlled, increased or decreased at will as with yogic
>>abilities or through instrumentation.
>
>I would bet on instrumentation first, then seek out mind control later.
>
>>This is not a stretch when you think how a person who only weighed half
>>a pound by virture of the effect of a device or mental state could
>>easily vault over a building or freely swim through the air.
>
>
>Well just tie a bunch of weather balloons filled with helium to yourself,
>adjust so that you become extremely light, and you can jump 50 feet high
>too.
>
>
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