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Robert Stirniman's
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The Hughes-Drever experiment was conducted in 1959-1960 independently
by Vernon Hughes and collaborators at Yale University, and by Ron
Drever at Glasgow University. In the Glasgow version, the experiment
examined the ground state of the lithium-7 nucleus in an external
magnetic field. The state has total angular momentum quantum number
3/2, and thus is spolit into four equally spaced levels by the magnetic
field. When the nucleus undergoes a transition between a pair of adjacent
levels, the photon emitted has the same energy or frequency, no matter
which pair of levels was involved. The result is a single narrow spectral
line. Any external perturbation of the nucleus that is associated with
a preferred direction in space, such as the motion of the Earth relative
to the mean rest frame of the universe, will destroy the equality of the
energy spacing between the four levels, since the nuclear wave functions
of the four levels have different spacial dependencies relative to
the magnetic field. Using nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, the
experiments set a limit on the separation or spread in frequency of line
that corresponded to a limit on anistropy or bidirectional dependence
in the energy of the nucleu at the level of one part in 10^23.
-- Clifford Will, Chapt 2 of The New Physics, edited by Paul Davies
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Magnetic resonance in its various forms, NMR, EPR, and EFR, are
all applied to relatively small specimens and, with the exception of
EFR, are rarely applied to magnetic materials. EFR means Electron
Ferromagnetic Resonance, and the best intro to this subject is by
Vonsovskii. Curiously, there is no published data on EFR for large
ferromagnetic specimens. A literature search at a campus of the
University of California revealed nothing. F. Herlach has said
that there is an 'open' literature and a 'closed' literature
concerning magnetic research.
-- Larry Adams
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A body which is spinning within a larger macroscopic body
which is also spinning will tend to align the axis of its
angular momentum with the angular momentum of the larger body.
For example, a gyroscope located on the earth, unless it is
in a frictionless gimbal, with always try to precess due to
the rotation of the earth into alignment with the earth's polar
axis, at which point it will no longer precess due to earth
rotation.
Another example, a cylinder of magnetic material spinning
around its longitudinal axis will develop a magnetic field
proportional to is angular velocity (Barnett Effect), because
the angular momemtum of the electrons in the material will
attempt to precess and come into alignment with the macroscopic
axis of the spinning cylinder, which also brings into alignment
the magnetic moment of the electrons, some of which have unpaired
spins (ferromagnetic), resulting in generation of a macroscopic
magnetic field. Similarly, it is know that a static magnetic field
itself contains angular momentum -- and spinning the source of the
static field, whether a magnet or DC current loop, will result
in a corresponding increase or decrease in the field strength.
Another example is the inventions of Henry Wallace. Wallace
found that if you spin a material which has an odd number of
nucleotides, i.e. having an "un-paired" value of angular
momentum, resulting in a nucleus with a multiple integer of a
one-half value of quantum momentum. The spin in the nucleus will
begin to line up with the macroscopic spin axis, and will create
an unusual force field related to gravity -- which he call a
"kinemassic" field.
Maybe I've missed it, but I've looked seriously, and there seems
to be no information in undergraduate or graduate level physics
reference books which mentions the relationship between
macroscopic and microscopic angular momentum -- much less
provides any analysis or explanation linking quantum angular
momentum to macroscopic angular momentum. Why not?
How does quantum angular momentum become organized from a
microscopic to a macroscopic level? Has anyone ever published
any work about this? I can't find any.
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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995
From: James Youlton
To: Robert Stirniman
Re: Angular Momentum and the Barnett Effect
On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Robert Stirniman wrote:
> Maybe I've missed it, but I've looked seriously, and there seems
> to be no information in undergraduate or graduate level physics
> reference books which mentions the relationship between
> macroscopic and microscopic angular momentum -- much less
> provides any analysis or explanation linking quantum angular
> momentum to macroscopic angular momentum.
You're catching on. The subject of compound angular momentum, or
internal and external angular momentum, or intrinsic and extrinsic
angular momentum has been a repressed subject for about 2 and half
decades. Add to that list, spherical pendulums, Coriolis effect, except
as applied to balistics and meteorology as used by the US military,
and Shafer's pendulum, that neat little device used as the artifical
horizon of aircraft.
> How does quantum angular momentum become organized from a
> microscopic to a macroscopic level? Has anyone ever published
> any work about this? I can't find any.
There isn't any that I know of, though back in the late fifties, there
was a fellow named Edward Condon at the University of Colorado who was
fairly proficient on the subject. So much so that he wrote the rotational
dynamics section, called noninertial dynamics at the time, of the
reference "The Handbook of Physics" which he also co-edited (Chapter 5).
I don't recall offhand who the publisher was (Harcourt/Brace?), though
it was endorsed by the American Institute of Physics.
Later, when Mr Condon was the head of the USAF project 'Blue Book', he
labored to supress his own work when the directive was handed down from
the Navy's Turtle Island project.
-- James Youlton
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Condon directed a government UFO project, but was never the head of
Blue Book. That position was held, for most or perhaps all of Blue Book's
life, by an Air Force Officer Named Edward Ruppelt. Blue Book was shut
down in 1969, shortly after the report of the project Condon directed,
"Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects".
-- Jim Giglio
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AUTHOR: Cousins, Frank W.
TITLE: The anatomy of the gyroscope : a report in 3 parts comprising
a literature and patent survey directed to the gyroscope
and its applications / by Frank W. Cousins ; edited by
John L. Hollington.
PUBL.: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France : North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and
Development,
FORMAT: 296 p. (in various pagings) ; 30 cm.
DATE: 1988
SERIES: AGARDograph no. 313
AUTHOR: Leimanis, E. (Eugene)
TITLE: The general problem of the motion of coupled rigid bodies
about a fixed point.
PUBL.: Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag,
FORMAT: xvi, 337 p. illus. 24 cm.
DATE: 1965
SERIES: Springer tracts in natural philosophy. v. 7
SUBJECT Dynamics, Rigid Gyroscopes, Two-body problem, Astrodynamics
AUTHOR(s): de Andrade, L.C. Garcia
TITLE: Electron gyroscopes to test torsion gravity?
In: Il nuovo cimento delle societa italiana di fisic
OCT 01 1994 v 109 n 10 Page 1123
AUTHOR(s): Abe, Hiroshi Yoshida, Tetsuo Turuga, Kikuo
TITLE: Piezoelectric-ceramic cylinder vibratory gyroscope.
In: Japanese journal of applied physics. part 1, r
SEP 01 1992 v 31 n 9B Page 3061
AUTHOR(s): Case, William B. Shay, Michael A.
TITLE: On the interesting behavior of a gimbal-mounted gyroscope.
In: American journal of physics.
JUN 01 1992 v 60 n 6 Page 503
AUTHOR(s): Zhuravlev, V.F.
TITLE: Nutational self-oscillation of a free gyroscope.
In: Mechanics of solids.
1992 v 27 n 6 Page 11
AUTHOR(s): Chang, C.O. Chou, C.S.
TITLE: Partially Filled Nutation Damper for a Freely Processing
Gyroscope.
In: Journal of guidance, control, and dynamics.
SEP 01 1991 v 14 n 5 Page 1046
AUTHOR(s): Chang, C.O. Chou, C.S. Liu, L.Z.
TITLE: Stability analysis of a freely precessing gyroscope
carrying a mercury ring damper.
In: Journal of sound and vibration.
MAY 08 1991 v 146 n 3 Page 491
AUTHOR(s): Imanishi, Akira Maruyama, Koichi Midorikawa, Shoichi
TITLE: Observation against the Weight Reduction of Spinning
Gyroscopes.
In: Journal of the physical society of japan.
APR 01 1991 v 60 n 4 Page 1150
AUTHOR(s): Petry, Walter
TITLE: Angular Momentum and Gyroscope in Flat Space-Time Theory of
Gravitation.
In: Astrophysics and space science.
JAN 01 1991 v 175 n 1 Page 1
AUTHOR(s): Zhivkov, A.I.
TITLE: Geometry of invariant manifolds of a gyroscope in the field
of a quadratic potential.
In: Mathematics of the USSR: Izvestija.
1991 v 37 n 1 Page 227
AUTHOR(s): Hayashi, Kenji Shirafuji, Takeshi
TITLE: Frame-Dragging Precession of Orbiting Gyroscopes in New
General Relativity and Possible Violation of Equivalence
Principle.
In: Progress of theoretical physics.
DEC 01 1990 v 84 n 6 Page 1074
AUTHOR(s): El-Sabaa, F.M.
TITLE: On the Periodic Motion of a Gyroscope Supported by Cardan
Gimbals.
In: al-Majallah al-Arabiyah lil-ulum wa-al-handasa
JUL 01 1990 v 15 n 3 Page 495
AUTHOR(s): Moffat, J.W. Brownstein, J.R.
TITLE: Spinning test particles and the motion of a gyroscope
according to the nonsymmetric gravitation theory.
In: Physical review. D, Particles and fields.
MAY 15 1990 v 41 n 10 Page 3111
AUTHOR(s): Nitschke, J.M. Wilmarth, P.A.
TITLE: Null result for the weight change of a spinning gyroscope.
In: Physical review letters.
APR 30 1990 v 64 n 18 Page 2115
AUTHOR(s): Faller, J. E. Hollander, W. J. Nelson, P. G.
TITLE(s): Gyroscope-weighing experiment with a null result.
In: Physical review letters.
FEB 19 1990 v 64 n 8 Page 825
AUTHOR(s): Rumyantsev, V.V.
TITLE: Stability of permanent rotations of a nonsymmetric
liquid-filled gyroscope.
In: Mechanics of solids.
1990 v 25 n 6 Page 1
AUTHOR(s): Panayotounakos, D.E. Theocaris, P.S.
TITLE: On the Decoupling and the Solutions of the Euler Dynamic
Equations Governing the Motion of a Gyroscope.
In: Zeitschrift fur angewandte Mathematik und Mechan
1990 v 70 n 11 Page 489
AUTHOR(s): Hayasaka, Hideo Takeulchi, Sakae
TITLE: Gravitation and Astrophysics.
Summary: Anomalous weight reduction on a gyroscope's right rotations
around the vertical axis on the Earth.
In: Physical review letters.
DEC 18 1989 v 63 n 25 Page 2701
AUTHOR(s): Laithwaite, Eric
TITLE: Propulsion by Gyro.
Summary: In an attempt to reveal the strange, hidden properties of
gyroscopes, Professor Eric Laithwaite explains the physics
behind the idea that a propulsion system could be built
using gyros.
In: Space. SEP 01 1989 v 5 n 5 Page 36
AUTHOR(s): Vitale, S. Bonaldi, M. Falferi, P.
TITLE: Magnetization by rotation and gyromagnetic gyroscopes.
Summary: We discuss how the general phenomenon of magnetization by
rotation may be used probe the angular velocity of the
laboratory with respect to a local frame of inertia. We
show that gyroscope with no moving parts based on this
pheno-
In: Physical review B: Condensed matter.
JUN 01 1989 v 39 n 16 p B Page 11993
AUTHOR(s): Aspden, H.
TITLE: Anti Gravity Electronics.
Summary: Reinterpretation of Newton's Third Law of Motion suggests
that it depends upon and electronic action. Electronic
interaction therefore explains the paradoxical anti-gravity
properties of the force processed gyroscope.
In: Electronics & Wireless World.
JAN 01, 1989 v 95 n 1635 Page 29
AUTHOR(s): Sachs, Mendel
TITLE: The Precessional Frequency of a Gyroscope in the
Quaternionic Formulation of General Relativity.
In: Foundations of physics.
JAN 01 1989 v 19 n 1 Page 105
AUTHOR(s): Medvedev, A.V.
TITLE: Motion of a rapidly run-up gyroscope acted upon by a
constant moment in a resistive medium.
In: Mechanics of solids.
1989 v 24 n 2 Page 21
AUTHOR(s): Starzhinskii, V.M.
TITLE: An exceptional case of motion of the Kovalevskaia
gyroscope.
In: PMM, Journal of applied mathematics and mechanic
1983 v 47 n 1 Page 134
AUTHOR: Gray, Andrew, 1847-1925.
TITLE: A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion; theory and
applications.
PUBL.: New York, Dover Publications
FORMAT: 530 p. illus. 22 cm.
DATE: 1959
QA861:P4
Perry, John
SPINNING TOPS AND GYROSCOPIC MOTION. By John Perry. Dover,
1957. 102 pages
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Articles and Books by Kip Thorne:
AUTHOR: Misner, Charles W.
TITLE: Gravitation (by) Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne (and) John
Archibald Wheeler.
PUBL.: San Francisco, W. H. Freeman
FORMAT: xxvi, 1279 p. illus. 26 cm. 1973
SUBJECT: Astrophysics, General relativity, Gravitation
GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC/9308009
THE QUANTUM PROPAGATOR FOR A NONRELATIVISTIC PARTICLE IN THE VICINITY OF
A TIME MACHINE DALIA S. GOLDWIRTH, MALCOLM J. PERRY, TSVI PIRAN AND
KIP S.THORNE.
We study the propagator of a non-relativistic, non-interacting
particle in any non-relativistic ``time-machine'' spacetime of the
type shown in Fig. 1: an external, flat spacetime in which two
spatial regions, V- at time t- and V+ at time t+, are
connected by two temporal wormholes, one leading from the past side
of V- to t the future side of V+ and the other from the past
side of V+ to the future side of V-. We express the propagator
explicitly in terms of those for ordinary, flat spacetime and for
the two wormholes; and from that expression we show that the
propagator satisfies completeness and unitarity in the initial and
final ``chronal regions'' (regions without closed timelike curves)
and its propagation from the initial region to the final region is
unitary. However, within the time machine it satisfies neither
completeness nor unitarity. We also give an alternative proof of
initial-region-to-final-region unitarity based on a conserved
current and Gauss's theorem. This proof can be carried over without
change to most any non-relativistic time-machine spacetime; it is
the non-relativistic version of a theorem by Friedman, Papastamatiou
and Simon, which says that for a free scalar field, quantum
mechanical unitarity follows from the fact that the classical
evolution preserves the Klein-Gordon inner product.
AUTHOR(s): Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE(s): Gravitational-wave bursts with memory: The Christodoulou
effect.
In: Physical review. D, Particles and fields.
JAN 15 1992 v 45 n 2 Page 520
AUTHOR(s): Apostolatos, Theocharis A. Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE(s): Rotation halts cylindrical, relativistic gravitational
collapse.
In: Physical review. D, Particles and fields.
SEP 15 1992 v 46 n 6 Page 2435
AUTHOR(s): Echeverria, Fernando Klinkhammer, Gunnar Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE(s): Billiard balls in wormhole spacetmes with closed timelike
curves: Classical theory.
In: Physical review. D, Particles and fields.
AUG 15 1991 v 44 n 4 Page 1077
AUTHOR(s): Eich, Chris Zimmermann, Mark E. Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE(s): Giant and supergiant stars with degenerate neutron cores.
In: The astrophysical journal.
NOV 01 1989 v 346 n 1 p 1 Page 277
AUTHOR(s): Frolov, Valery P. Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE(s): Renormalized stress-energy tensor near the horizon of a
slowly evolving, rotating black hole
Summary: The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy
tensor ren of a quantum field in an arbitrary
quantum state near the future horizon of a rotating (Kerr)
black hole is derived in two very different ways: One
derivation (restricted for simplicity to a massless scalar
field) makes use of traditional techniques of quantum field
theory in curved spacetime, augmented by a variant of the
"ETA formalism " for handling superradiant modes.
In: Physical review. D, Particles and fields.
APR 15 1989 v 39 n 8 Page 2125
AUTHOR(s): Kim, Sung-Won Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE(s): Do vacuum fluctuations prevent the creation of closed
timelike curves?
In: Physical review. D, Particles and fields.
JUN 15 1991 v 43 n 12 Page 3929
AUTHOR: Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE: Black holes and time warps : Einstein's outrageous legacy /
Kip S. Thorne.
PUBL.: New York : W.W. Norton,
FORMAT: 619 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 1994
SERIES: Commonwealth Fund Book Program (Series)
SUBJECT: Relativity, Astrophysics, Physics--Philosophy, Black holes
AUTHOR: Harrison, B. Kent.
TITLE: Gravitation theory and gravitational collapse (by) B. Kent
Harrison, Kip S. Thorne, Masami Wakano (and) John Archibald
Wheeler.
PUBL.: Chicago, University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: xvii, 177 p. illus. 25 cm. 1965
SUBJECT: Astrophysics, Gravitation
AUTHOR: Thorne, Kip S.
TITLE: Gravitational radiation : a new window onto the universe /
Kip S. Thorne, William R. Kenan, Jr.
PUBL.: Cambridge, (Cambridgeshire) ; New York : Cambridge University
Press,
DATE: 1988
SUBJECT: Gravitational radiation
AUTHOR: Braginskii, V. B. (Vladimir Borisovich
TITLE: Quantum measurement / Vladimir B. Braginsky and Farid Ya.
Khalili ; edited by Kip S. Thorne.
PUBL.: Cambridge (England) ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge
University Press,
SUBJECT: Quantum theory, Physical measurements
AUTHOR: Braginskii, V. B. (Vladimir Borisovich)
Sistemy s maloi dissipatsiei. English
TITLE: Systems with small dissipation / V.B. Braginsky, V.P.
Mitrofanov, V.I. Panov ; edited by Kip S. Thorne and
Cynthia Eller ; translated by Erast Gliner.
PUBL.: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
FORMAT: xii, 145 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. DATE: 1985
SUBJECT: Harmonic oscillators--Design and construction.
Physical measurements
NOTES: Translation of: Sistemy s maloi dissipatsiei.
Includes index.
Title: Black holes : the membrane paradigm / edited by
Kip S. Thorne, Richard H. Price, Douglas A. Macdonald.
Date/Source: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1986.
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