3 dimensional gyroscope shows antigravity

[broli]

Yeah space research. It's almost like they're mocking where tax money is going..

[zerotensor]

While the spokeless ring gyros that comprise this 3-D gyroscope are certainly a cool invention with many possible applications, the concentric configuration proposed stands a pretty slim chance of demonstrating antigravity or linear thrust, imho.  It will act as a rotation stabilizer, resisting any applied external torque, but will do nothing against the linear force of gravity.

A more interesting configuration would be to construct a Hopf torus with these spokeless ring gyros  (I know, I know, I am a one-trick pony...but it's a good trick!!)  -- While still a long shot, I propose that this configuration has a better chance of producing thrust, since the density of the moving rotors is greater on the inner (aperture) portion of the toroid relative to that on the outer edge (producing a gradient in the momentum field).  This is an idea I have been sitting-on for about a decade now, and it's finally time that I let it out of the bag.  So there ya go.

An alternate-tech version of such "spokeless" gyros would use magnetohydrodynamic pumps to move a dense metallic fluid inside the rings.  Hmmm... there would be associated electromagnetic effects as well-- corona discharge, perhaps...  this is starting to look like a classic flying saucer!  (but i'm getting ahead of myself here...  one step at a time.)

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4009.0;attach=17036;image

[Omnibus]

Eric Laithwaite's story is one of the most depressing instances in the field of study forums such as this are dedicated to. The pity is that people like @khabe are so categorical in their denial. Can, however, @khabe show results as rigorous as those shown in Hayasaka H., Takeuchi S., Phys.Rev.Lett., 63, 2701-2794 (1989)? Even the powers that be in their attempts to promptly smash these studies show experiments nowhere near in sophistication as those of Hayasaka and Takeuchi. The powers that be couldn't wait to denounce the findings by the latter -- within a month and they were ready to report negatively on them, irrespective of the low quality of counter evidence presented. Such travesty of science is ubiquitous these days.

You should've seen the crowd the other day listenening in one of the Barnes & Noble stores in New York City to the crap that string theorist was spewing. Nothing but crap, that's physics mainstream today. Travesty of science.

Oh, and, regarding Newton's second law -- yes, it is incomplete and that can be seen regardless of Eric Laithwate's studies. Let alone Hamilton's equations -- utter nonsense. You will not see the Royal Society, however, to be in icy silence when listening to crap such as Hamilton's equations. Quite the contrary, it celebrates that kind of crap. The silence of the Royal Society is for innovative thinkers such as Eric Lathwaite. What a sad world we live in.

[temledog69]

This is 2012 right???  this is junk

[neptune]

On the subject of antigravity and gyroscopes, does anyone remember Sam Kydd? He was an Australian inventor who developed a giro antigravity device. I read about him in a book from my local library. I think it was probably back in the 1980s. The device was driven by  a model aircraft engine, and when placed on the scales, showed a weight reduction of about 10%. When mounted in a horizontal position on a model boat, it would propel the boat. He was looking for funding for further development. I can find no reference to him on the internet.