Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[lostcauses10x]

Now we need a person or company in his area that can do a Gauss map on the magnet s.  Any suggestions??

Any of these??

http://chicago-il.yellowusa.com/Magnets_and_Magnetic_Devices_(wholesale).html

[Omnibus]

Of course. No, you're not nitpicking at all. Magnetic field profile is the crux of the matter in all these systems and the lack of success so far is due exactly to lack of clear knowledge regarding this. We make visibly symmetric constructions, however, the invisible magnetic field is in most cases peculiar and random. Have you noticed that magnets having exactly the same geometric shape exhibit quite varying magnetic field from one piece to another? One, in fact, can never find two matching magnets with respect to field profile no matter how precisely similar they are in shape. Magnetic field profile is crucial and you shouldn't mind bugging the guy on that.

[Omnibus]

I have a gauss meter and what I usually do is attach the probe to the spindle of a milling machine at a certain fixed distance from the circle of magnets and increment by, say, five degrees. Then I plot the readings and this is how I've found how asymmetric the field is of a seemingly symmetric contraption. Achieving symmetry of the magnetic arrays and controlling its shape is the very essence of the problem with these motors.

Would be nice to have this profile determined by using automatic computer data-acquisition. We, the humans, are so imperfect. Aside from the fact that we can't fly, we can't see the magnetic field either, which, I've read somewhere, some birds can. Well, to be the most intelligent animal on the planet comes at a price.

[hansvonlieven]

G'day again,

I am sorry fellahs, but something is making me a little bit jumpy about this deal.

The discrepancy is that the originator of this device appears to know very little about the polarity of the magnets used and their orientation in the device. That, for someone who has been working on a magnetic device for 30 years, seems to be very odd.

Either he doesn't know or he is playing coy.

Have it your way, but  am starting to smell a rat.

Hans von Lieven

[Omnibus]

@hansvonlieven, if this turns out to be real it will be one of the most paradoxical phenomena in the history of technology. Not only the polarity of the magnets confusion, everything else about him, his writing, etc. speaks about a person with less than a good education, to say it mildly. As you can see from my earlier post, I smell a rat big time. And yet, we have The Beatles, musical illiterates who made history. Who knows, maybe one really has to be a tabula rasa to be able to reach such heights up to no one else. Could it be that education hinders the really great achievements, by its indoctrination into ruts, disallowing the exploration and discovery in unchartered territories?