Re: more Japanese gyro-dropping

["GARY HEMMINGER" <Hemmig@d-e.pvt.k12.nj.us>]

> > >  In the London Sunday Telegraph of 21 Sept. 1997, Robert Matthews
> > > reports that a team of Japanese scientists have spun up a
> > > gyroscope to 18000 rpm and dropped it through a distance of 63
> > > inches in vacuo. The time taken to fall this distance was 1/25000
> > > sec. longer than when the gyroscope was not spinning,
> > > corresponding to a weight reduction of 1 part in 7000. The effect
> > > only occurred when the gyroscope was spinning anticlockwise.  
The Tolman-Stewart experiment (1916) showed that when a 
conductor is "centrifuged" the electrons in the electron sea shift a 
bit toward the "bottom of the test tube".   Therefore,  a spinning, 
conductive top will be slightly negative on its perimeter, and 
slightly positve at its center, and hence will have a magnetic field.  
Could this be involved?  

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  Gary Hemminger                   
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