Anti-Gravity Researching

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From the November, 1958 FATE magazine.

Townsend Brown and his Anti-Gravity Discs

by Gaston Burridge

Thomas Townsend Brown has been flying strange metal saucer-like discs of
his own secret design and make for more than 30 years -  some big ones
too, up to 30 inches in diameter!

Mostly, Brown has flown his discs in good old common air. The discs  are
tethered to a mast or pole and the thin, double-saucer-like  things fly
a circle around and around the mast in free flight.

Only a slight hum is audible as they fly. In the dark they glow with an
eerie lavender light, revealing their motive power which is  a kind of
electricity.

Many scientists and engineers have watched these discs fly. Under their
breath, and sometimes out loud, most of them have said the force which
makes Brown's discoids spin is one which every high-school physics
student knows about - "Electric Wind" - and not a new  principle Brown
has discovered at all!

One engineer told me, "The whole thing is so screwball I don't want  to
even talk about it!" Another said, "The device is only about  one-tenth
of one percent efficient." Both these statements have  since been proved
incorrect! Most other engineers object to the  lack of mathematical
substantiation presented by Brown. To  engineers and scientists one
equation is worth a thousand words!  But even an equation is of little
use unless it has values assigned  to at least some of its main parts.
When these were not forthcoming, from a technical point of view, it
appeared Brown was  walking on straw legs.

Then recently Brown went to France. Under what was virtually a  French
Government sponsored program of research, Air-France successfully flew
some of the Brown discs in a HIGH VACUUM!

And that took all the "electric wind" out of the previously  dissenting
sails1 These tests were of a highly secret nature and,  because of this,
and, because they were made in a foreign nation,  their results REMAIN
CLASSIFIED.

One by one, U.S. engineering and scientific heads are beginning to  show
above the storm cellars. It is now quietly admitted that perhaps Brown
may have something after all!

One thing he DOES have which he has not had before is a sponsor! Perhaps
that is the reason for the heads showing from the cellars. There is
nothing quite like having financial backing.

What do Brown's inventions mean? Another kind, type, or arrangement of
high-speed flight, both within our own atmosphere and in the space
beyond it!

How will it compare as a motive force with the rocket motors and the
jet engines of today? Of course, we cannot say yet but there is  nothing
to indicate Brown's method will not compete most favorably  with them.
Brown's method has definite "anti-gravitic potentials'  which their
rockets or jets do not have. Because of present patent  situations many
details of the Brown system must be by-passed here,  but it seems they
represent no small item in the total picture of  space flight.

Since 1923 Brown and his family have spent nearly $250,000 of their  own
funds on experiments and research into the mysteries of that  strangest
of strange electrical phenomenon, the "Biefeld-Brown  Effect".
Electrical literature contains few writings on this  subject, mostly
because Brown has maintained a tight grip on the  information and has
not seen fit to write on the matter scientifically or otherwise. No one
else has seemed inclined to research the matter. What is more American
scientific journals are  open to few ideas that DO NOT ORIGINATE with
men CONNECTED WITH  LARGE UNIVERSITY or COMMERCIAL RESEARCH
LABORATORIES!

I first heard of Townsend Brown and his Biefeld-Brown Effect from  Mr.
Arlin C. Hauser. Hauser is a designer and builder of fine  technical
instruments in Pasadena who doesn't hold an idea at arms-  length
because it is "new". Hauser furnished me a copy of a  monograph titled,
"A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION OF THE APPLICATION OF  THE BIEFELD-BROWN
EFFECT TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMS OF SPACE  NAVIGATION". This
monograph was published by Dr. Mason Rose, president of the University
for Social Research, Los Angeles, but  was actually written, I learned
later, by Mr. Bradford Shank, a  nuclear scientist, formally of Los
Alamos, now engaged in  engineering work for a Los Angeles aircraft
valve manufacturer.

Some of the information set forth in this monograph rang a bell way
back in my memory.

Between 1919 and 1925 I was "errand boy" in a laboratory conducting
experiments with high potential, high frequency alternating  currents.
We were playing with a million volts at 750,000 cycles  per second! A
new type of electrical condenser had been built and  was to be tested.
It was hooked into the circuit but was not  "bolted down" - it was
heavy.

The director stood at the switchboard; the rest of us at a  respectful
distance away. The switch was thrown. There was a hum,  a bursting flash
of green and purple light, a loud bang, a violent  lurch and twist of
the new condenser and that piece of apparatus lay a smoking ruin! The
director said, "Gentlemen, our baby has grown up!"

It is this movement manifest in an electrical condenser which is the
essence of the Biefeld-Brown Effect. This movement makes the Effect
highly interesting as an anti-gravitic force!

The Biefeld-Brown Effect says an electrical condenser, when charged,
will MOVE TORWARD its positive pole and remain so positioned UNTIL
DISCHARGED, if free to do so, regardless of WHICH POLE or WHICH SIDE  of
the dielectric is made positive.

This movement does not disregard the time-honored "law" which indicates
every action carries within it an equal reaction. The reaction, as in
gravitation, is present BUT NOT OBVIOUS. The  reaction is a finite but
vanishingly small movement of all the other  matter in the Universe. But
the nearest masses are affected first  and most!

The Effect was first observed when the condenser plates were charged
with a DIRECT CURRENT. But the experience noted above, which was
observed subsequently during other experiments, indicates something  of
the same phenomenon is present when condensers are charged with
ALTERNATING current also - but probably not as effectively or as
lastingly.

While these alternating current condenser MOVEMENTS were noted at  the
time, especially when the condensers were initially charged after a long
and complete discharge, those directing the research then believed the
movements were due to resonances set up within the  apparatus by the 60-
cycle feed currents. Thus, this phenomenon, though noted, was never
investigated by the group to which I was  attached.

This electrical condenser movement is believed to have been first
perceived and examined by Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld, professor of physics
and astronomy, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, sometime before
1923.

However, search of the Denison University's own published scientific
records does not indicate Dr. Biefeld wrote anything regarding this
discovery while there. Dr. Lawrence Biefeld, a son of Dr. Paul  Alfred
Biefeld, writes me that he does not recall his father ever  having
mentioned discovering such an effect! However, Mr. Bradford  Shank who
has been intimately associated with several phases of the  Townsend
Brown Foundation and its work for several years relates  that Dr.
Biefeld did originate the initial research into the Effect  itself and
also directed Townsend Brown, then a student at Denision  University, in
Brown's early interest in the matter.

Although the Effect may have been recognized first by Dr. Biefeld, a
greater part of the development research and ALL the practical
application of it has been carried on by Brown - mostly at his own
expense, over a period of more than 30 years.

Apparently the Effect was named by someone else writing a report on  the
subject. But had it not been for Townsend Brown's long interest  and
research this Effect might remain unrecorded and unexploited  still!

Evidence indicates the entire Universe, from the greatest systems of
stars and their planets down to the smallest atom and its parts -
hydrogen - operates on only three basic forces - electricity, magnetism
and gravitation. These three forces may be entirely separate and
different or they may be only different phases of the  same force, a
Universal force we have not yet distinguished as such.  Regardless of
this, we know the relationship between electricity and  magnetism and we
know this relationship is brought about and  maintained by the very
simple COIL OF WIRE!

It is quite possible, through the Biefeld-Brown Effect, we have come
upon the relationship between electricity and gravitation, a
relationship being brought about and maintained through the very  simple
electrical condenser!

If each of these three forces is considered separately, we find little
of practical value in any of them! It is only through  combinations of
two, and perhaps more, that we begin to use them.

Aside from the researches into the Biefeld-Brown Effect carried on  by
Mr. Brown science has done practically nothing toward developing the
relationship between electricity and gravitation.

Most scientists today will admit a weak COUPLING EFFECT DOES EXIST
BETWEEN GRAVITATION AND ELECTRICITY but any practical use of this
coupling effect they deny!

Standing almost alone in this belief Mr. Brown has maintained his
position regarding the matter stubbornly, faithfully, and devotedly.

If a simple, two-plate electrical condenser (FIGURE 1) is suspended by a
cord in such a way as to allow it complete freedom to to move  in any
direction, except downward of course, and this condenser is  charged
with the proper amount and pressure of direct electric current the
instrument will swing TOWARD the side holding the POSITIVE CHARGE.

If this same condenser is discharged, the positive and negative wires
switched and connected oppositely, when recharged the  condenser will
swing in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

If the condenser is placed upon one side of a balanced beam (FIGURE 2)
with enough weight opposite it to continue the balance and if the
positive pole is pointed up, when the condenser is charged the  weight
on the opposite side of the beam will fall and the entire  condenser
WILL RISE!

This shows that some of the "weight" of the condenser has been relieved.
If the positive pole now is reversed, when the condenser is again
charged the weight on the opposite end of the beam WILL BE  LIFTED! This
illustrates gravitic affect.

This is the Biefeld-Brown Effect. As far is now known it is the only
method of affecting the gravitational field electrically! However,
apparently there are several other research programs now  under way
attempting to establish an electro-gravitic relationship.

One of the mysteries of this Effect is that it APPEARS TO BE AFFECTED BY
TIME! Time does not do away with the Effect completely, but it does
appear to minimize it temporarily. This was noted first  by Brown during
experiments located in a closed room.

He watched his discs through a telescope from outside the room. Brown
observed that after a time the discs did not swing quite so  far as
initially, in either direction, with the same electric charge. I
understood from Mr. Shank that this point was discussed with Albert
Einstein but what Mr. Einstein had to say remains unknown to me.

The phenomenon might be accounted for by subtle atomic structural
breakdowns in the dielectric material, or in the plate material, or
both. After a time, following a complete discharge, these breakdowns
mend themselves.

The intensity with which the Biefeld-Brown Effect may act is determined
by five factors. Ultimate intensity cannot possibly be  obtained by a
combined use of all five factors - each in their separate ultimates! A
compromise must be made. This is not as grave a disadvantage as it might
seem at first, for it will allow an  almost endless arrangement of
factors in any given disc or ship.

The best combination of these then may be chosen and applied to a  wide
variety of practical conditions which will surely arise in  everyday
aeronautical or astronautical flight.

1) PROXIMITY OF PLATES

The first factor regulating the intensity of the Effect is  controlled
by the closeness at which the condenser's plates can  be set. If the
charging pressure - or voltage - is high then  the plates will have to
be farther apart than for lower voltages  -using the same dielectric. If
it is necessary to charge the  condenser quickly a higher voltage is
needed than if more time  can be taken. Hence, the closer the condenser
plates the  greated the Effect gained - other circumstances remaining
the  same.

2) DIELECTRIC CONSTANT

The second factor is the ability of the material chosen as a dielectric
to store electrical energy. There are many kinds of dielectrics: glass,
mica, rubber, paper, bakelite, air,  ceramics, and many of the plastics.
A dielectric is any  material which opposes the flow of an electric
current and at  the same time is capable of storing the electrical
energy as an  "elastic stress. "

The action resembles the squeezing of a soft rubber ball. The muscles in
your hand represent the electric voltage. They  squeeze the ball's sides
together. The sides remain squeezed  until your muscles release their
pressure, then the sides jump  back into their original shape.

A dielectric will absorb an electric charge until its capacity has been
reached. Then it will either hold that charge as long as the charging
force is present, or it will rupture and the  pressure will leak away,
or if the accumulated pressure becomes  greater than the charging
pressure it will discharge itself back  into the charging circuit! This
last can raise the devil!

Some dielectrics are capable of absorbing a great quantity of electrical
energy if that energy is applied slowly at moderate pressure, but they
break down if called upon to act quickly.

Other dielectrics, like lead-free glass, can be charged and  discharged
thousands of times a second at high pressures. The  measure of a
dielectric's ability is called the "K" of the  material. The higher the
K, the greater is the Biefeld-Brown  Effect.

3) INTENSITY

A third factor in creating intensity of the Effect is the AREA of the
dielectric's charging plates. The discs are used  edgewise, and the
greater their area, the greater the Effect  obtained.

4) VOLTAGE

A fourth factor has to do with the VOLTAGE, or pressure used to  charge
the condenser's plates. The higher the voltage, the greater the Effect.

Also, the higher the voltage the shorter the time required to charge a
given condenser size. But the voltage must not be so high as to puncture
the dielectric, the condenser is  permanently, or temporarily ruined -
depending upon its ability  to "heal" itself. Solid dielectrics cannot
heal themselves.  Fluids heal themselves almost as soon as punctured.
(the reason  for using OIL filled capacitors...Vangard)

5) MASS (SURFACE AREA)

The fifth and last factor is the MASS ofthe dielectric. The  greater the
mass, the larger the Effect.

These points all are important. They make it clear that by a not  too
complicated electrical arrangement which allows the changing of  many
positive pole positions at will an astronautical vehicle could  be
controlled.

Since a circle contains the greatest number of square units of surface
for a given dimension (a torus has even greater surface area...Vangard),
it seems obvious that a shallow, disc-shaped vehicle could use this type
of energy field to greatest advantage. It would be charged differently
than the models because it could carry its own charging equipment on
board.

The input energy of some models tested in California quite some time
ago (they do not represent present experimental attainments) was  about
50 watts, or the requirements of a small light bulb.

The weight of these units was about 1200 grams, or around 42 ounces,  or
near two and 6/10 pounds. The efficiency of propulsion was 2%.

Unless scientific findings are discounted, we must assume the voltage of
atmospheric electricity rises as the distance from the  earth's surface
increases.

At low altitudes we sometimes record an increase of 100 volts for  EVERY
THREE FEET IN ELEVATION. But this increase RISES WITH ALTITUDE. It is
believed that in that ionosphere a potential of 100  volts may occur
within only four inches!

Even though a discoid-shaped vehicle could be relatively thin, compared
to its diameter, still it would be many times four inches thick. Hence,
it would be subjected to tremendous differentials of  external electric
pressure over its extreme dimensions.

How will this affect the Biefeld-Brown Effect - or any electrically
propelled vehicle? Some say, not at all. Others see it as a  sizable
barrier!

Anti-gravity devices apparently are being experimented with from a
number of directions. Once any one of them becomes practical a  whole
new horizon will unfold before mankind.

At the present time (1958) some 19 patent applications, covering the
Biefeld-Brown Effect and its various applied forms, are being worked
on. A new laboratory is also being built. Will Mr. Brown be the  first
Earthman to build and fly a FLYING SAUCER?

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Vangard notes..

The Law of Equilibrium includes Density. All things Rise or  Fall to
their own Density. This density can consist of energy  in many forms,
electric, magnetic, tachyon, etc.

Note the remark regarding the higher voltage potentials in the upper
atmosphere. Both the Brown disc and the Searle disc rely on very high
voltage potentials to provide lift. The question is whether the
electricity seeks its own upper atmosphere level or does it cause some
kind of stress in some other type of  energy to cause repulsion from the
Earth surface or ATTRACTION  TO A LAYER EQUIVALENT TO ITS OWN.

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