https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJfqMYHaQw

I had not seen this one before!

On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:11:23 GMT
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJfqMYHaQw

I had not seen this one before!

I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

Thanks.

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Davey.

On Monday, 3 December 2018 11:32:28 UTC, Davey wrote:

I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

I was lucky enough to attend some of his RI Xmas lectures. In
one of them he could easily have shot a member of the audience
with an electromagnetic gun. The projectile - a substantial metal
rod which I think was made of alternating bands of copper and iron
was fired at a thick target of multiple sheets of blockboard with
audience members behind it. The projectile penetrated the full
thickness of the target but fortunately remained wedged in it.

John

On 03/12/2018 12:15, wrote:
On Monday, 3 December 2018 11:32:28 UTC, Davey wrote:

I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

I was lucky enough to attend some of his RI Xmas lectures. In
one of them he could easily have shot a member of the audience
with an electromagnetic gun. The projectile - a substantial metal
rod which I think was made of alternating bands of copper and iron
was fired at a thick target of multiple sheets of blockboard with
audience members behind it. The projectile penetrated the full
thickness of the target but fortunately remained wedged in it.

Yup I saw him live at the RI when I was about 14 - a couple of us had
gone on a physics weekend which included a number of lectures from a
selection of interesting speakers. ISTR he did his demo with a massive
rotating "dumbbell". That would have wiped out several in the audience
had he have let go of it!


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John.

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On 03/12/2018 11:32, Davey wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:11:23 GMT
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJfqMYHaQw

I had not seen this one before!

I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

Thanks.


ISTR he put a hole in the lab wall when one of his spheres started to
spin too fast and it crashed into the wall. I never did actually see the
damage but a lot of people were talking about it.

dennis@home brought next idea :
On 03/12/2018 11:32, Davey wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:11:23 GMT
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJfqMYHaQw

I had not seen this one before!

I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

Thanks.


ISTR he put a hole in the lab wall when one of his spheres started to spin
too fast and it crashed into the wall. I never did actually see the damage
but a lot of people were talking about it.

His once well regarded reputation crashed, when he began investigating
'gravity defying' gyroscopes.

On 03/12/2018 17:36, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
dennis@home brought next idea :
On 03/12/2018 11:32, Davey wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:11:23 GMT
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJfqMYHaQw

I had not seen this one before!

I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

Thanks.


ISTR he put a hole in the lab wall when one of his spheres started to
spin too fast and it crashed into the wall. I never did actually see
the damage but a lot of people were talking about it.

His once well regarded reputation crashed, when he began investigating
'gravity defying' gyroscopes.

Hmm, you do get a force when you flip a gyroscope.
Whether you can harness that force to give continual movement in a
particular direction is the problem.
Its not as though he was trying perpetual motion like most cranks out there.

dennis@home has brought this to us :
His once well regarded reputation crashed, when he began investigating
'gravity defying' gyroscopes.

Hmm, you do get a force when you flip a gyroscope.
Whether you can harness that force to give continual movement in a particular
direction is the problem.
Its not as though he was trying perpetual motion like most cranks out there.

I wasn't being critical of him, but rather critical of the
'establishment'. He was/is one of my tech heroes, ever since I saw him
on the Christmas Lectures and the Open University.

"Davey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:11:23 GMT
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJfqMYHaQw

I had not seen this one before!

I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

Striking how much better the video quality
is now even with the cheapest phones.

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 05:03:58 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rot Speed,
the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


I fondly remember watching him on the TV doing those demonstrations.

Striking how much better the video quality
is now even with the cheapest phones.

Striking how you REALLY keep following up on EVERY SINGLE link that will get
posted here, you useless senile idiot! G

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