Townsend Brown on Electrogravitics, 1980
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:06 pm
Quoting from his letter to "Harry I" on March 11, 1980, added below:
https://www.thomastownsendbrown.com/mis ... harry2.htm
"Our work now is largely theoretical, departing in many respects from the original measurements of force to a study of gravitational radiationpossibly of optical frequency) which appears to induce a self-potential in massive high-K dielectrics. In one way, this is the converse of the effect where forces are produced."
Gravitational radiation refers to a form of sidereal radiation arriving from outside our solar system. According to the Cady report, Townsend had been tracking the sidereal periodicity ( measured by star positions, not by sun/moon cycles) of the observable effects of this mysterious radiation since (at least) 1937. By the time of this letter, Townsend had moved on to observing the changing electrical measurements in rocks, that seemed aligned with this same force, that the files at the link above will have separate entries and correspondence relevant to his work with petrovoltaics.
Townsend was observing the optical radiation, even before he joined the Navy. Knowing that the ultraviolet shift was a particular interest of the lab director, he used his knowledge to try to pry his way into the NRL, writing to inform the man (Hurlbert, I believe) that he had collected some data on the subject. There is no return correspondence in the family files that I have seen, but we know that the director didn't take the bait.
So Townsend, being Townsend, went about achieving his objective another way. When the head of the Radio school in San Diego suggested that the NRL might benefit from the knowledge of one Seaman Brown, who was now teaching the class in the place of the assigned instructor, I hope the director remembered that he was the brash young man who had gotten the brush off earlier, and gave him some props for persistence.
https://www.thomastownsendbrown.com/mis ... harry2.htm
"Our work now is largely theoretical, departing in many respects from the original measurements of force to a study of gravitational radiationpossibly of optical frequency) which appears to induce a self-potential in massive high-K dielectrics. In one way, this is the converse of the effect where forces are produced."
Gravitational radiation refers to a form of sidereal radiation arriving from outside our solar system. According to the Cady report, Townsend had been tracking the sidereal periodicity ( measured by star positions, not by sun/moon cycles) of the observable effects of this mysterious radiation since (at least) 1937. By the time of this letter, Townsend had moved on to observing the changing electrical measurements in rocks, that seemed aligned with this same force, that the files at the link above will have separate entries and correspondence relevant to his work with petrovoltaics.
Townsend was observing the optical radiation, even before he joined the Navy. Knowing that the ultraviolet shift was a particular interest of the lab director, he used his knowledge to try to pry his way into the NRL, writing to inform the man (Hurlbert, I believe) that he had collected some data on the subject. There is no return correspondence in the family files that I have seen, but we know that the director didn't take the bait.
So Townsend, being Townsend, went about achieving his objective another way. When the head of the Radio school in San Diego suggested that the NRL might benefit from the knowledge of one Seaman Brown, who was now teaching the class in the place of the assigned instructor, I hope the director remembered that he was the brash young man who had gotten the brush off earlier, and gave him some props for persistence.