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January 16,1994
SLOWTIME.ASC
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This file is based on original research and shared with
KeelyNet courtesy of Bert Pool and Norman Wootan.
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Experiment on Time Dialation Effects
Reported to Occur With High Speed Rotating Masses
Conducted by Norman Wootan and Bert Pool
Hal Fox, editor of Fusion Facts, invited interested experimenters
to verify or refute a report that large spinning masses apparently
may affect time/space in the immediate vicinity of the spinning
mass.
Back in the 1960's, an unnamed experimenter reported that an
"Accutron" quartz movement watch would lose time at a rate of about
19 seconds for every 1,000 seconds of "near exposure" to a large
spinning mass such as a large generator rotor.
We had no exact description of the spinning mass except that it
probably was steel or laminated iron - and we had no exact rotor
weight from which to work.
Physicists theorize that extremely massive objects such as black
holes can affect time in their immediate vicinity - could a much
smaller spinning mass also produce a measurable slowdown in time?
Norm Wootan and I (Bert Pool) decided to conduct an experiment which
would help prove or disprove the alleged observation.
During the months of December 1993 and January 1994, several
experiments were conducted using fairly large spinning masses.
Below is a description of the test apparatus used and the results
observed.
First, a test device was constructed using an aluminum test mass of
31 pounds of aluminum disks stacked to form a rotor 8 inches in
diameter and 6 inches tall. The disks which were used to form the
rotating cylinder were precision aluminum computer disk platters
removed from surplus mainframe hard disk drives. The thin magnetic
oxide was left intact on the platters. The surplus hard disk drive
spindle provided an ideal bearing which could handle the mass and
speed we were to attempt in the experiments.
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Since we had the aluminum disks ready-made, we decided to run our
tests with aluminum instead of steel for the mass.
Two quartz crystal controlled timebases were carefully chosen to
form a "test timebase" and a "reference timebase". Both were sealed
in solid copper foil Faraday shields to isolate the time bases from
external electromagnetic fields.
One timebase designated as the "test base" was placed 1/32 inch away
from the edge of the spinning mass.
The second timebase, referred to as the "reference base" was placed
in a secure area ten feet away from the spinning mass. Care was
made to insure that the reference timebase was at least ten feet
away from all external sources of moving mass or electrostatic and
electromagnetic fields.
Previous testing had verified that the two timebases would remain
synchronized to better than 1/4 second per 48 hour test period.
This degree of synchronization is equal to better than 1 part in
691,000. Since we were looking for a reported slowdown of the
affected timebase on the order of 19 seconds in 1000, or 1 part in
52, this would provide us with more than adequate measuring
accuracy.
The 31 pound aluminum cylinder was spun up to a speed of 3,090
r.p.m.. For the first test, both timebases were placed in copper
shielding. The mass ran for 45 minutes, or 2,700 seconds.
The expected slowdown of the timebase near the spinning rotor was
postulated to be as much as 51.3 seconds (1/52 of 2,700 seconds).
The spinning mass was stopped and both the reference timebase and
the test timebase were removed from their Faraday shielding and the
displayed times carefully compared.
Absolutely NO loss of time was found to have occurred in the test
timebase compared to the reference base.
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A second test was run using UNSHIELDED timebases. We expected that
the magnetic oxide coating on the platters might interact with the
electronics of the test timebase. This time, the mass was run at
3,090 r.p.m. for 12 hours!
At the end of the test period, the mass was stopped, and the
timebases were again compared. Absolutely NO loss of time was
measured in the test timebase.
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We decided that perhaps the mass and inertia of the 31 pound
cylinder were not high enough. We set up the experiment again using
shielded timebases, but replaced the 31 pound, 8 inch diameter mass
with one which was 14 inches in diameter and over 66 pounds in
weight.
The driving motor was replaced with one twice the size of the
original. The mass was spun up to a maximum speed of 3,200 r.p.m.
(this was the maximum speed we could coax out of the motor with this
large load) and ran the experiment for 1 hour.
The mass was stopped, and the timebases examined. As before,
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absolutely NO loss of time was observed in the test timebase which
had been placed near the spinning mass.
Two additional timebases placed INSIDE of the spinning mass, near
the outer circumference of the platters, also did not show any
unusual time discrepancies whatsoever.
Conclusions: Shielded accurate quartz controlled oscillator
timebases are not affected whatsoever when placed in
very close proximity to large spinning masses of non-
magnetic aluminum. Even non-shielded timebases
showed remarkable stability over extended periods of
measurement in the experiment.
We plan on conducting additional experiments in the near future,
using a larger rotor machined from steel instead of aluminum.
We believe that the reported anomaly was most likely due to the
interaction of residual magnetic fields present in the original
steel rotating mass interacting with the electronics or tuning fork
within the original "Acutron" watch placed near the mass.
During our experiment we may not have observed an effect showing a
measurable slowdown of time in our experiment because
(1) the effect may only occur with steel or other ferrous metal
rotors,
(2) our mass may have been insufficient,
(3) our rotor speed may have been too low, or perhaps some
combination of the above, or
(4) there very well may be no measurable effect on time by a
spinning mass constructed of any material, i.e. the
original observation was flawed or bogus.
It is suggested that other researchers experiment with large
spinning masses to help determine whether in fact spinning masses
can affect the flow of time in space near the spinning mass. Our
initial tests lead us to believe that no such effect is taking
place.
Bert Pool and Norman Wootan
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Vangard Note
An excellent experiment and report, despite the failure to
detect the reported time loss, the attempt is worthy of report
and congratulations. We look forward to additional experiments.
Thanks Bert and Norm!
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