From: tarl@coyoacan.sw.stratus.com (Tarl Neustaedter)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Subject: Re: My Reasearches on Diamagnetism & UFO propulsion
Date: 22 Jan 1993 03:01:30 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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Keywords: ufo, magnetism

In article <1993Jan22.002228.189980@zeus.calpoly.edu> atemps@oobleck.acs.calpoly.edu (A Richard Temps) writes:
> [...] all comments are appreciated.

No offense, but I suspect I may change that.

>[Inverse cubed electo-repulsive force]
> but he brought up a good point
>in that we humans are still pretty ignorant of How It's All Put Together.

Not that ignorant.

>Going on, he says how such a small force could escape the attention of
>modern tests,

There was a recent search for a fifth force, which found nothing. They
were looking for a mighty small force. Perhaps this book was written
more than a few years ago?

>and that this proton-electron repulsive force could be
>amplified in a way to provide the propulsion typically seen in UFO
>spacecraft.  Basically, the mechanism would be a central spinning rim
>set up to give off a huge positive magnetic field which would then act upon
>the hull, which is made up of some heavy substances very negatively charged.

You'd very rapidly bleed electrons into the atmosphere, and your spacecraft
would acquire a net positive charge that would leave your hair standing on end.

>The positive field generated would then act to do several things, mainly
>pushing the craft up

How does he make an electrostatic force work against gravity? Does he have
a grand unified theory that gives you an interaction?

> creating a vacuum around the hull by repulsing the air molecules

Van De Graaf generators don't repulse air molecules. By the way, what is the
chemical formula for an air molecule?

>Essentially, we are using this field created by the proton repulsion to
>convert magnetic energy into mechanical energy.

Uh, what's "magnetic energy"? Where did it come from?

>Now, let me tell
>you about this thing I read in recently released book on Soviet UFO
>phenomena (of which there seem to be an abundance).  A piece of an exploded
>UFO hull was scraped up and analyzed, and was found to be an alloy of
>67 % cesium, 10% lanthanum, and an unsaid amount of neodymium.

That alloy probably wouldn't last more than a second or two exposed to
our atmosphere. Two of it's components are, how shall we say, enthusiastic,
in reacting with oxygen. It would probably burn with a bright blue flame. If
you get it wet, it would go KAAAAA-BOOM. That would explain the explosion, but
doesn't explain why there was any alloy left to analyze.

>Now, this alloy seemed
>to have 14 times the magnetic field on one side as it did on the other
>side, which seems pretty unusual.

Yup. That's pretty damned unusual. Not only was their enough alloy left
to analyze, there was enough left to precisely determine it's magnetic
properties. Which are pretty unusual. By any chance was it the north
pole that was 14 times stronger than the south pole? Maybe they found
the fabled monopole!

>Now, from what I gathered, this Cesium-Lanthanum-Neodymium alloy is hard to
>put together; perhaps an opinion from someone learned in metallurgy would be
>helpful.

Putting it together would be trivial. A little expensive, particularly since
you'd have to do it under an inert (Argon? Neon?) absolutely-dry atmosphere,
but probably doable. I'd make a neodymium crucible, put chunks of lanthanum in
it, and pour the cesium around it. Then use an electric arc to heat the liquid
to about 1000 Celsius, dissolving the lanthanum and some of the neodymium from
the crucible itself. The hard part would be keeping it together afterwards.

By the way, I'm not particularly experienced in metallurgy. But I have some
experience handling (small quantities of) alkaline metals. And I saw the
results of someone stupid enough to try to flush some sodium down a toilet.
	Tarl
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