I have written a number of posts critical of the Philadelphia Expermiment elsewhere. I was especially harsh, with the exception of pointing out that
the key players were not fictitious.
What bothers me about the PE is how short a time it took from building the ship to doing the actual experiments. Someone might reply, "there was a
war on!" Maybe, but they sure had to work fast.
Right now, I'd like to give a pass to Berlitz on the PE and explore how such experiments might be done today. In the book, scale models are talked
about on pp. 187 and 189.
First, there has to be a connection between magnetism and gravity. Current research has not involked a "Unified Field Theory" but that may be the
end result. For example, physicists Claudio Maccone and Geoffrey Landis discussed magnetic wormholes in the late '90s. Each published a paper in the
"Journal of the British Interplanetary Society."
In his paper, Maccone admitted that he needed 3.48x10^18 Tesla to build a womhole. Landis pointed out that Maccone's solution to Einstein's
equations did not yield a viable wormhole. What to do?
The key players in the PE relied on the phenomenon of "resonant mangnetism." This is very different from the simple magnetic field of a permanent
magnet. Fortunately, the field in resonant magnetism does not have to be very large to have significant effects. In fact, the maximum magnetic field
in iron does not exceed about 2 Tesla. This was achievable using the degaussing coils around the ship. It is also workable in a small scale
experiment.
In General Relativity, use is made of the term, "curvature of spactime." Now, a body in spactime accelerates along the curvature in the same way a
body accelerates under gravitational force. For our purposes, they are different ways of saying the same thing.
Now, a centripetal force is a form of gravitational force. Resonant magnetism is connected with centripetal motion. It is not hard to show
that resonant magnetism can produce a centripetal force exceeding the gravitational force on a test body near a spherical body of 20 solar masses
(recall there is an equivalent spacetime curvature).
The key is an application of the formula that connects circulating electrons and centripetal motion (the cyclotron equation). The values of resonant
magnetism are inserted into the cyclotron equation.
Cyclotron Equation (p.30 below)
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Larry




