Question
Put an egg in a glass and watch it sink. How can you get it to come to the top without touching it? Answer Easy if you know how By adding salt to the water and waiting for it to dissolve will make the egg rise. The surrounding area around the egg has changed and the gravity effect has been altered. Maybe by the addition of sound waves to an area sounding an object and to the object the effects of gravity can be changed also time will tell.
THE PAST Lifting heavy weights has always been difficult. But if the following story is true, there may have been in the distant past an easier way.
This is story that has been passed to me and I have two versions two different Locations but the details seem to be similar. It seems an Oxford MD had a Tibetan student friend who invited him to Tibet and whilst there he witnessed the following He was taken to a monastery where a building operation was underway.
At the scene he noticed that at 250 metres above ground level there was a cliff with a cave. He saw monks were busily building a wall on a small area in front of the said cave.
At ground Level there laid a smooth flat stone with a large indentation in it one meter across by 15 centimeters deep.
A block of stone about 1 by 1.5 meters was placed into this area At a distance of 63 metres from the container 19 musical instruments including (ragdonds) were placed together in a 90 degree arc. *
I believe ragdongs are long wind blown pipes that produce a low frequency tone *. All Distances had been carefully measured. The instruments consisted of 13 drums and 6 trumpets, Eight of the drums were 1 meter wide and 1.5 meters long. Four were medium sized 0.7 by 1 metre There was also a small one 0.2 by 0.3m The drums were made from 3mm thick sheet metal and weight 150kg with one end open.
The operators stood behind their instruments when playing them. The small drum was used to signal a control to start. This resulted in the monks singing a mantra and the instruments making a loud low droning noise and drum noise. It seems for about four minutes nothing happened. When the tempo was increased the stone began to sway and then levitated towards the cave opening Three minutes later it landed on the platform at the cave opening. In one hour so the story goes they lifted 5 to 6 stones into position. For this story to be true the stones would have needed to have flown in a 500m long parabolic curve and a height of 250 metres. The drums and trumpets were placed in an equal order and each trumpet was separated by drums.
THE PRESENT Just before World War 2 a man in Florida built his dream home. A coral castle for him and his future wife in Europe. Unfortunately this arrangement was to her dislike and the marriage never occurred. All That Remains today is a tourist attraction called Coral Keys with several unanswered questions. In that castle are building blocks that large modern cranes have difficulty in lifting even today. Yet he used a small wheel barrow and a loan of a pickup vehicle He never disclosed his secret, although some have suggested he used electromagnetic means.
In research establishments today experiments have conducted using sound waves produced electronically to lift small rocks and little foam balls. The device consists of a speaker mounted at the base and a reflector at top to create sound wells in which the balls floated. see middle illustration.
THE FUTURE We may see sound playing a more important role in our lives as once the laser beam was an invention waiting for use in the early sixties to widespread use today it enjoys. We may yet see sound used in demolition and construction work. Researchers need to find a way to produce a low frequency tone at high power levels to be able to lift heavy loads. In lifting this weight you must be able to direct where it will go. My idea is to construct three units using high air compression with pipes cut to a fundamental frequency as the actual frequency may result in pipes of extreme length. By having three beams allows one to create a shifting sound well in which the load could sit and moved in a 360 degree circle at any given height depending on unit placement. Unfortunately the right frequency has yet to be found.
An interesting experiment When factories were being built in Sydney Australia There was an unusual occurrence that used to happen every after noon between one o'clock and three o'clock every day for all the factories. A load droning sound would emit from all these factories and of course this use to cause some headaches and some amusement. After much searching it was found that the gutter down pipes would become heated during the morning when exposed to the sun and would then be subjected to cooling air. This caused air eddy currents within the pipes which would then cause the pipes to resonate. The solution was found to be in detuning the pipes. You can get the same effect by getting a metre or there about of a length of metal tubing place some wire mesh about quarter the way from the bottom inside the tube . Now heat the bottom of the metal tube until it has warmed up, about five minutes on a propane gas should be about right. ( a candle could probably be used as well ) Now by holding it upright expose tubing to normal air temperature and a load droning sound will be heard.
