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My innovations:
Evaluating UFO detector designs
If the high
cost of 3rd generation infrared night goggles gives you sticker
shock like it did me then you might want to consider some of the more
low tech UFO detector options available for the home builder on a
budget.
A simple google search will
show how hundreds of folks have been experimenting with home made
designs that detect slight disturbances in the normal magnetic field.
This research has been going on since the 1950's and in my opinion has
produced enough head scratching results to merit further study.
Stay tuned for future posts
on the wide variety of approaches back yard researchers have taken in
the past. The intention will be to provide as much data as possbile for the home experimenter once we determine if any of these methods are legitimate.
Image credit goes to Disinfotainment
for the 3D model of the UFO detector he built when he was a kid. The
drawing on the left is thanks to the amazing
mumeson.org, who took it from an informative 1961 article in Flying
Saucers magazine by Arthur C. Aho.
See older posts in the archives.
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This contraction will sooner detect an earthquake than anything else. You'd have to hold a (ferro)magnetic object pretty close (inches or maybe feet) for the magnet to move enough to close the circuit.
Ha, I'll gleefully poke holes in conspiracy theories any day!
Shining the light of science (I've got to get me one of those t-shirts) on these modern snake-oil peddlers.
I might even have too much fun!
That is a fine looking T-shirt.
Let me know your size and color choice and I'll buy you that shirt in exchange for some future comments from that science/skeptic perspective you articulate so well.
I especially appreciate the links you add.
I'm thinking most of the "UFO" sightings are mainly whatever new flavor of military craft the Air Force or Navy or whoever is testing.
My extrapolation is that these new types of craft deploy a yet unknown means of motion that might involve manipulations of gravity.
The electromagnetic field circuit might detect these disturbances when such a craft flies near them, and it might be fun to go out in the middle of the night and try to snap a picture of said military craft to include in next weeks post.
Thanks, Mark! I'll e-mail Anna my details and address.
As to this UFO detector, I urge you to build and test one. Or at least suspend a strong magnet on a string. Then approach it with different metallic objects (both ferromagnetic and not) to study the relation between the object, it's size and distance to the magnet and the deflection of the magnet. Also try with another powerfull magnet.
I'll repeat my prediction that you'd have to have to be either very close (inches to feets) or have a huge chunk of metal for this type of detector to work. For a real detector, check out MAD, and especially its limitations. You can detect something the size of a military submarine when it's close. Planes that size do not exist, to the best of my knowledge.
Now as to manipulation of gravity, this is easy. But less useful than you think.
According to Einstein's scientific theory, gravity is an apparent force caused by the influence of mass on the curvature of spacetime. Newton in his law of universal gravitation discribed the magnitude of this apparent force quite well. But it didn't take into account the (unknown at the time) light speed limit, and failed to explain some other things. (Einstein proposed measuring the perihelion precession of Mercury as a proof of general relativity because it could not be explained by Newtonian mechanics.)
So the obvious way of reducing the gravity from a large mass is to place another large mass nearby. In between them, their gravitational influence will cancel each other out partially. According to Robert Forward's book Future Magic (highly recommended, by the way), if you put a big rock of around 100 meters in diameter and weighing four million tons on a couple of sturdy pillars and stood directly underneath it, the apparent gravity would be reduced by ten microgravities (≈10⁻⁴ m/s⁻²). So possible, but not very useful.