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The Anti-Gravity Handbook
The new expanded compilation of material on Anti-Gravity, Free Energy, Flying Saucer Propulsion, UFOs, Suppressed Technology, NASA Cover-ups and more. Highly illustrated with patents, technical illustrations and photos. This revised and expanded edition has more material, including photos of Area 51, Nevada, the government’s secret testing facility. This classic on weird science is back in a new edition! How to build a flying saucer; Arthur C. Clarke on Anti-Gravity; Crystals and their role in levitation; Secret government research and development; Nikola Tesla on how anti-gravity airships could draw power from the atmosphere; Bruce Cathie’s Anti-Gravity Equation; NASA, the Moon and Anti-Gravity; The mysterious technology used by the ancient Hindus of the Rama Empire; The Rand Corporation’s 1956 study on Gravity Control; T. Townsend Brown’s electro-gravity experiments; How equations exist for electro-gravity and magneto-gravity; Tons of patents, schematics, photos, cartoons and other illustrations! How to build a flying saucer. Arthur C. Clarke on Anti-Gravity. Crystals and their role in levitation. Secret government research and development. Nikola Tesla on how anti-gravity airships could draw power from the atmosphere. Bruce Cathie’s Anti-Gravity Equation. NASA, the Moon and Anti-Gravity. The mysterious technology used by the ancient Hindus of the Rama Empire. The Rand Corporation’s 1956 study on Gravity Control. T.Townsend Brown’s electro-gravity experiments. How equations exist for electro-gravity and magneto-gravity. Tons of patents, schematics, photos, cartoons and other illustrations!
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191 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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August 20, 2023
AN ‘ALTERNATIVE HISTORIAN’ ARGUES IN FAVOR OF THE POSSIBILITY
Author David Hatcher Childress wrote in the opening ‘Profile’ on Arthur C. Clarke of this1985 book, “The problem of gravitation concerns Clarke quite a bit. It is the one force that we cannot duplicate, nor even sufficiently understand… In a statement that might seem gross arrogance, Clarke states, ‘No competent scientist, at this state of our ignorance, would deliberately set out to look for a way of overcoming gravity.’ Is Clarke totally unaware of the work of Nikola Tesla, T. Townsend Brown, and even Albert Einstein? Is today’s science too inept to tackle one of the basic foundations of physics?...Clarke goes on to say … that those tinkerers with anti-gravity are dreaming. Yet, for someone who doesn’t understand gravity himself (no one understands gravity according to Clarke), it seems absurd that he should ridicule someone who may have a different conception of gravity than himself.” (Pg. 4)
He includes an essay by T.B. Pawlilcki, which suggests, “our centrifuge still generates a centrifugal acceleration in all directions around the plane of rotation… All we have managed to do is make the whole ball of wire wobble around the common center of mass between the axle and the free end of the spoke. To solve this problem… we need merely top accelerate the spoke through a few degrees of arc and then let it complete the cycle of revolution without power… The next problem facing us is that the momentum imparted to the centrifugal soke carries it all around the cycle with little loss of velocity. The amount of concentrated centrifugal force carrying the engine in the desired direction is too low to be practical. Momentum is half the product of mass multiplied by velocity squared. Therefore, what we need is a spoke that has tremendous velocity with minimal mass. They don’t make spokes like that for bicycle wheels… the kind of centrifuge we need [is] An electron has no mass at rest… all its mass is inherent in its velocity. So we build an electron raceway in the shape of a doughnut in which we can accelerate an electron to a speed close to that of light. As the speed of light is approached, the energy of acceleration is converted to a momentum approaching infinity. As it happens, an electron accelerator answering our needs was developed by the University of California during the last years of World War II… and the doughnut is small enough to be carried comfortably in a man’s hands…” (Pg. 12)
This essay continues, “The flying saucer consumes fuel at a rate that cannot be supplied by all the wells in Arabia. Therefore we have to assume that UFO engineers must have developed a practical and compact atomic fusion reactor. But once the Mark III is perfected, another fuel supply becomes attainable, and no other is so practical for flying saucers.” (Pg. 23)
Childress speculates in another essay, “Assuming that [William L. Brian, a Nuclear Engineer from Oregon State University] is right about a higher surface gravity on the moon, then the ramifications of the high gravity of the fuel requirements of the lunar descent and ascent vehicle of the manned Apollo program to the moon are horrific!... The startling conclusion is that if men really landed on the moon in high lunar gravity conditions, it was not done with rockets! These amazing conclusions, backed up by many scientists and using NASA data itself, raise a number of questions: Why did the Russians apparently pull out of the space race when they were hot on the trail of putting a man on the moon? How did the United States succeed when rockets would clearly not work in the high lunar gravity conditions? What was the military’s involvement in top secret research which led to the successful moon landings? Did we even go to the moon as claimed? One publication, also by a former NASA employee, uses the same information from NASA used by Brian to ‘prove’ that we never even made the trip! (This book is ‘We Never Went to the Moon,’ by Bill Kaysing.’)” (Pg. 105)
He argues in another essay, “While it is mostly assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Government Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis. What we know about Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic… The ‘Nine Unknown Men’ wrote a total of nine books… Book number six was ‘The Secrets of Gravitation’! This book, known to historians but not actually seen by them, deals chiefly with ‘gravity control.’ It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet, or elsewhere (perhaps even in North America somewhere)… Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them… to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships! Their method of propulsion, she said, was ‘anti-gravitational’ and was based on a system analogous to … the unknown power of the ego existing in man’s physiological makeup, ‘a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract the gravitational pull.’ According to Hindu Yoga, it is this which enables a person to levitate… Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously… The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was ever made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon, though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried out…” (Pg. 130)
In another essay, Childress argues, “While the concept of Anti-Gravity may be relatively new, people have been personally defying gravity for thousands of years. Incidents of levitation have been recorded in many ancient Hindu, Babylonian, Chinese, and Egyptian texts, but they may be considered a bit distant and second hand for serious consideration. Probably the earliest and most famous of levitations worth considering is that of Jesus and his disciple Peter walking across the water on the Sea of Galilee… Other incidents of levitation, starting in the Middle Ages, are fairly numerous…” (Pg. 168)
Pretty far-out and unsubstantiated stuff.
Author David Hatcher Childress wrote in the opening ‘Profile’ on Arthur C. Clarke of this1985 book, “The problem of gravitation concerns Clarke quite a bit. It is the one force that we cannot duplicate, nor even sufficiently understand… In a statement that might seem gross arrogance, Clarke states, ‘No competent scientist, at this state of our ignorance, would deliberately set out to look for a way of overcoming gravity.’ Is Clarke totally unaware of the work of Nikola Tesla, T. Townsend Brown, and even Albert Einstein? Is today’s science too inept to tackle one of the basic foundations of physics?...Clarke goes on to say … that those tinkerers with anti-gravity are dreaming. Yet, for someone who doesn’t understand gravity himself (no one understands gravity according to Clarke), it seems absurd that he should ridicule someone who may have a different conception of gravity than himself.” (Pg. 4)
He includes an essay by T.B. Pawlilcki, which suggests, “our centrifuge still generates a centrifugal acceleration in all directions around the plane of rotation… All we have managed to do is make the whole ball of wire wobble around the common center of mass between the axle and the free end of the spoke. To solve this problem… we need merely top accelerate the spoke through a few degrees of arc and then let it complete the cycle of revolution without power… The next problem facing us is that the momentum imparted to the centrifugal soke carries it all around the cycle with little loss of velocity. The amount of concentrated centrifugal force carrying the engine in the desired direction is too low to be practical. Momentum is half the product of mass multiplied by velocity squared. Therefore, what we need is a spoke that has tremendous velocity with minimal mass. They don’t make spokes like that for bicycle wheels… the kind of centrifuge we need [is] An electron has no mass at rest… all its mass is inherent in its velocity. So we build an electron raceway in the shape of a doughnut in which we can accelerate an electron to a speed close to that of light. As the speed of light is approached, the energy of acceleration is converted to a momentum approaching infinity. As it happens, an electron accelerator answering our needs was developed by the University of California during the last years of World War II… and the doughnut is small enough to be carried comfortably in a man’s hands…” (Pg. 12)
This essay continues, “The flying saucer consumes fuel at a rate that cannot be supplied by all the wells in Arabia. Therefore we have to assume that UFO engineers must have developed a practical and compact atomic fusion reactor. But once the Mark III is perfected, another fuel supply becomes attainable, and no other is so practical for flying saucers.” (Pg. 23)
Childress speculates in another essay, “Assuming that [William L. Brian, a Nuclear Engineer from Oregon State University] is right about a higher surface gravity on the moon, then the ramifications of the high gravity of the fuel requirements of the lunar descent and ascent vehicle of the manned Apollo program to the moon are horrific!... The startling conclusion is that if men really landed on the moon in high lunar gravity conditions, it was not done with rockets! These amazing conclusions, backed up by many scientists and using NASA data itself, raise a number of questions: Why did the Russians apparently pull out of the space race when they were hot on the trail of putting a man on the moon? How did the United States succeed when rockets would clearly not work in the high lunar gravity conditions? What was the military’s involvement in top secret research which led to the successful moon landings? Did we even go to the moon as claimed? One publication, also by a former NASA employee, uses the same information from NASA used by Brian to ‘prove’ that we never even made the trip! (This book is ‘We Never Went to the Moon,’ by Bill Kaysing.’)” (Pg. 105)
He argues in another essay, “While it is mostly assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Government Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis. What we know about Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic… The ‘Nine Unknown Men’ wrote a total of nine books… Book number six was ‘The Secrets of Gravitation’! This book, known to historians but not actually seen by them, deals chiefly with ‘gravity control.’ It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet, or elsewhere (perhaps even in North America somewhere)… Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them… to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships! Their method of propulsion, she said, was ‘anti-gravitational’ and was based on a system analogous to … the unknown power of the ego existing in man’s physiological makeup, ‘a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract the gravitational pull.’ According to Hindu Yoga, it is this which enables a person to levitate… Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously… The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was ever made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon, though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried out…” (Pg. 130)
In another essay, Childress argues, “While the concept of Anti-Gravity may be relatively new, people have been personally defying gravity for thousands of years. Incidents of levitation have been recorded in many ancient Hindu, Babylonian, Chinese, and Egyptian texts, but they may be considered a bit distant and second hand for serious consideration. Probably the earliest and most famous of levitations worth considering is that of Jesus and his disciple Peter walking across the water on the Sea of Galilee… Other incidents of levitation, starting in the Middle Ages, are fairly numerous…” (Pg. 168)
Pretty far-out and unsubstantiated stuff.
August 23, 2021
INTERESTING INFO AND PRIMARY SOURCES
June 29, 2007
Seeing if he got it right. Some of his other books are rehashed versions of Velikosky. Velikosky is much more scientific in his approach though and more believable.
August 11, 2009
Fascinating, all-views-accepted collection of weirdness, humor, outsider science, and paranoia.
February 15, 2015
Interesting read! I couldn't put it down!
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