ETLight, you're quite right about problems in space. Know the tolerances and capabilities of your equipment so you don't die. Solids are superior for those applications, because of their amazing k-values. I imagine that if you fried your capacitor because Captain Sulu ordered the helmsman to "F...

Hmm... that's interesting. I assumed (and apparently wrongly) that the force contributions were multiplicative rather than additive. Some components most definitely are multiplicative. Zero voltage = zero force, even if you maximize the other components, for instance. Same should go for surface area...

Ah, already spending too much time reading here. :) The joys of internet forums. I have equipment training to go to right now so I'll make my question to Chris Knight brief: Brown described the field as acting on the mass of the dielectric, or coupling to the mass of the dielectric. If this variable...

Gewis, The planet uses Hydrogen. Kevin I'm not sure on your meaning. Planet composition is hydrogen? The planet's processes use hydrogen? Which processes? Maybe deuterium (a hydrogen isotope) is fusing in metal lattices in the core, which is driving some of the internal heat? If you could clarify y...

Ah, this discussion topic is what brought me to actually make contact with the community here at all. Mikado is right on the money about the difference between lifters and brown's discs: the dielectric. Brown stated, paraphrasing, that the effect is contingent upon 5 factors: area of the plates (lar...

Hello, all. It's good to read these introductions and what I've had time to on these forums. My handle will be Gewis, as you can see. I'm a physics student at a major university and I've been paying attention to T.T. Brown related things for several years now. You'll likely see posts from me regardi...