Sunday, September 25, 2011

Spinning balls in flight curve in a vacuum

The Forces of Nature by Kelland Terry, Ph.D.
My friend Ben is restricted in his movement, but give him a motorized chair and he is definitely a body in motion. His rapid darting to and fro warrants careful attention. I soon got used to it, and more often than not Ben caused me to smile and chuckle as we built a 10 foot long vacuum chamber to house a Robo-Pong. The idea was to eject spinning balls at a target inside the vacuum chamber and observe the extent they curve as you remove the air.
Air molecules are very difficult to remove from any enclosure even under the best of conditions. But the chamber we built held a high state of vacuum over a long period of time. Once we got the bugs out, it did not leak after we evacuated the air with a two stage vacuum pump. We equipped the chamber with a very sensitive vacuum gauge to measure how much air was left in the chamber, and a peep hole to film the balls in flight.
A Robo-Pong can be used to eject a table tennis ball at a target, and in doing so, it also causes the ball to spin clockwise or counterclockwise depending how the instrument is set. For several months, we filmed the balls in flight with left hand spin and right hand spin and with varied air concentrations. I then examined the curvature of the balls on a computer.
Now the results: From this study, I concluded that spinning table tennis balls continue to curve even in a pure vacuum. Approximately 7% of the curvature remains when all the air is removed from the chamber.
And now the conclusion: It seems there is a substance in space besides air that the balls spin against, which causes them to curve. This substance has to have physical properties with mass. As weird and unbelievable as this must seem, I suspect this substance is a vast concentration of gravitons, the strings with perfect elasticity that cause the gravitational force between bodies. The number of strings must be immense, but because of their very limited, minute mass and super elasticity, we cannot feel them in space.
My experiments can be read on line at http://www.vestheory.com/. Once you enter the book, just click on Chapter 30.
If the results of this experiment were true, it suggested that spinning balls will curve more in a magnetic field; this was an exciting prospect I had to explore. Till then, be safe and in good health. Kelland—www.vestheory.com

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