Re: FTL, antigravity, etc.

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

        He says his device will punch a hole in another dimension and send
the signal through the other dimension.  He has witnesses - so he no doubt
has filed an affidavit to that effect.  He thereby has won the right to
exclude anybody else from practicing his invention in the US.
        It would be interesting to read the file history, if anybody wants
to pay for it.  You can order at the given URL.
                                Regards,
                                        Jack

Adam was by constitution and proclivity a scientist; I was the same, and
we loved to call ourselves by that great name...Our first memorable
scientific discovery was the law that water and like fluids run downhill,
not up.
                          Mark Twain, <Extract from Eve's Autobiography>

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Hans G. Ammitzboll wrote:

> Oops!!!  As happens to me often, I forgot to include the link.  Here it is.
>
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US06025810__
>
> Thanks
>
> William Beaty wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Hans G. Ammitzboll wrote:
> >
> > > Could someone please check out the following link and offer comments?
> > > Does anyone know of more details about what this guy is alleging?  I
> > > haven't had a chance to look at the pseudo-science sites for this, but
> > > I'm sure someone must know something.  I'm heading over to Bill Beatty's
> > > site now for a look.  Thanks for any input.
> >
> > I heard somebody mention a "FTL" controversy on SCI.PHYSICS, but I didn't
> > have time to track it down.  What's the link?
> >
> > PS
> >
> > The latest fringe science buzz:  somebody finally built the very first
> > "weird science" project that I put on my website in early 1994.  This is
> > the infamous "gravity-emitting capacitor".  This anonymous person claims
> > that it WORKS, and lifts 5x more than its 1KG mass.  I'm being
> > intentionally gullible and starting construction ("provisional belief" is
> > required in order replicate any experiment in an unbiased fashion, even
> > the conventional ones.)  The less trusting fringe-sci hobbyists are
> > waiting for April 1st to roll around, just in case there is a certain
> > announcement pending!  :)
> >
> > DANGER!!!!!!!!  If anyone here is tempted to build a tinfoil spacewarp
> > generator, note that the capacitance works out to be about 1/2 microfarad.
> > At a couple of thousand volts, such a capacitor is very nasty.  Your first
> > mistake could be lethal.  If you haven't already worked with
> > energy-storage capacitors, I'd suggest steering clear from this one.
> >
> >   http://www.amasci.com/caps/capworks.txt
> >   http://www.amasci.com/caps/capwarp.html
> >
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