This note is copied here in its entirety from a sci.engr newsgroup.
It seems to be at a different level from the background of
crackpot posts. It even reminds me of a mech eng prof who
developed some ideas about gyroscopic effects, years ago.
You will notice the posting date.
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From: top9@gazeta.pl
Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
Subject: Anomalous movement resistance in a spinning gyroscope
Date: 1 Apr 2006 09:13:50 -0800
<http://www.oswirus.krakow.pl/cat_14/gyroscope/>
A symmetric harnessed gyroscope accelerated to a given spinning
frequency takes different time periods to stop, depending on the
direction of previous spins. For repeated alternating, anticlockwise
and clockwise spinning, the rotation period in both directions
significantly increases, which is not the case when the gyroscope is
repeatedly rotated in the same direction. Using the measurements it was
observed, that the time of gyroscope's rotation was significantly
lengthened or shortened, what indicates that it either increased or
decreased the movement resistance of the gyroscope. The presented
experimental results suggest the existence of anomalous movement
resistance and demonstrate that a fixed spinning gyroscope displays
unusual history-dependent movement resistance effects. The effect is
real, large, reproducible and does not follow from experimental errors.
The manuscript was reviewed thrice, according to the publishing
procedure in "Physical Review Letters" within two year. The remarks of
all the reviewers were taken into account during its correction.
Because the publishing procedure for our manuscript in "Physical Review
Letters" finished, we decided to publish it in Journal of Technical
Physics, J.Tech. Phys., 46, 2, 107-115, 2005.
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