Thoughts on Gravity
2005.03.04 – For more years than I care to consider, I have attempted to understand gravity. Today I had an inspiration. It doesn't matter whether I understand precisely what gravity is all about. It can still be useful if I merely understand how to make it work to my advantage. With that in mind, I offer to you, my “gravity device”. Granted, the details have not been fully worked out, but the idea is sufficently complete that I am fairly confident that something can be made of it.
First, let’s examine our assumptions:
- gravity exists
- gravity is constant here on earth
- material(s) exist which will behave differently when compressed than at normal atmospheric pressures
Here is a diagram of my apparatus.
Pretty simple, eh? Place a weight on some substance that does something when under pressure. The weight will always be there thanks to the force of gravity. Think of it. 24x7, 365 days a year. Beautiful! Now all that we need to do is bleed off whatever is happening to the pressurized stuff. It doesn’t much matter what the pressurized stuff is doing. It can be heat, light, nearly anything that can be turned into energy. Nothing will wear out, nothing is consumed. A few simple experiments should prove this a workable scheme. The only thing that remains is to optimize the device.
Here is a dialog that went on earlier today between Cian and myself that may better describe the idea.
Hi Cian,
This morning I had a novel thought and thought that you may be interested. Much of what we do with electricity is due the the effects of a coil. In very simple terms we have learned that if we move a magnet in a coil and we obtain a current. Conversely, if we apply a current to a coil and we can obtain movement. The coil is key. It is just this particular arrangement of copper that produces the desired result.
We burn fossil fuels to produce steam to produce movement to produce current, build huge hydroelectric dams to produce current, build windmills, etc.
Another method that we use with some limited success is photoelectric cells that capture light and transform it into current. This has met with some success but is obviously limited to the amount of sunshine that is available. The capture rate is relatively small and the materials expensive. The benefit is that it is clean energy and abundantly available.
My thought today was that perhaps it would be possible to devise some arrangement of some material that would capture the force of gravity. I don’t suppose a coil of copper wire is the correct arrangement or we would surely have noticed before now. If it would be possible to capture a small amount of the force of gravity, two things would occur. The effect of gravity would be lessened (making a lory weigh 10% less would vastly improve fuel economy) and the force could be transformed into energy that we could bleed off the device. We can tranform the energy into current or something useful. The blessing is that gravity never sleeps and would appear inexhaustable so long as we are on earth.
In a nutshell, that is it. A stationary device that transforms gravity into energy or removes a portion of the weight of an object.
I’ve devoted this month on my website to crazy ideas and will probably touch this up a tad and present it to the world. I'd love to hear your comments on the thought.
Dave
Brilliant…
If you simply have an object placed on top of another, you exert a force on it because you are pulled toward the earth, e.g. sitting on a chair
So if something could channel that energy continuously, like a coil or whatever is affected by gravitation… I guess matter itself, but what effect does it have on matter a pull…
I suppose water is a good analogy, if we could harness the energy of what causes the water to flow downwards it would be unlimited (practially) and as you said the side effect would be absorption, which is what I guess happens if you place a large enough object in front of it…
E.g. placing the moon in front of the earth, when you are behind the moon and cannot see the earth do you feel the gravitation from both added together or the earth + the moon - the absorption of gravity by the moon…
Fascinating indeed…
I guess we have to find what turns the turbine or causes a stream of current or whatever… whatever the answer is, you can be sure it is right in front of our noses!
Please let me know when you write the article, I would be most eager to read it :-)
Cian
Cian and I have been discussing gravity for some time. Long ago, I wrote an introduction to my thoughts of the subject.
