Gravitation experiments during the total solar eclipse

Kuusela, Tom; Jäykkä, Juha; Kiukas, Jukka; Multamäki, Tuomas; Ropo, M.; Vilja, Iiro

doi:10.1103/physrevd.74.122004

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“…The tests were carried out by a team of scientists from University of Turku, Finland, headed by Tom Kuusela. The results were already discussed in their published paper [5]. In Fig.…”

Section: -The Kuusela's Results In Manavgat Turkey In 2006supporting

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“…Whether or not the gravity oriented instruments would respond to such signals could also depend on the structure of the buildings that housed them. For example, Kuusela [5] used three identical instruments in three locations in Turkey, but only one responded to the time-structured rectangular pulse. Regarding the K.L.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The stationary pendulum used for the Aug 11 1999 eclipse test (pendulum #1) showed jerks synchronous with peaks found in a gravimeter trace recorded in Trieste 500 Km apart. We report tests with pendulum #2 first, and the analogy with a trace recorded by Kuusela in Turkey in 2006 [5], because our understanding of the phenomena started just from there. In early 2000 the below described stationary pendulum #2 was installed in our laboratory for a planned long test.…”

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Pendulum and gravimeter tests misled by remote man-made EM waves in solar eclipse days over years (false Allais effect)

Iovane¹

2022

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We report misleading effects of human-origin signals on very distant gravity experiments in solar eclipse days. Despite Newton's well-established gravity, some research has been underway for some years on alleged gravitational anomalies in the days of solar eclipses, as per still considered reports in mainstream peer-reviewed journals. In solar eclipse days some instruments, notably pendulums and gravimeters, had provided anomalies that were interpreted as unknown features of gravity. French physicist Maurice Allais is credited with first reporting pendulum anomalies during a solar eclipse in 1954. NASA researchers also wanted to investigate the matter, also because they were looking for an explanation for the so-called Pioneer anomaly (explained later), and promoted a worldwide test for the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. We were recruited for that experiment in July 1999 following our proposal for an innovative experiment. We have since conducted two experiments with stationary pendulums and recorded surprisingly structured anomalies which after years of study proved unnatural. We report these tests with extensive control data, and a limited number of similar anomalies observed by others, some already published but still not as unnatural. In summary we analyze: our stationary pendulum test on Aug 11 1999 in South Italy (unpublished); our stationary pendulum test on May 31 2003 in South Italy (unpublished); a gravimeter test by University of Trieste (Italy) on Aug 11 1999 (unpublished); a report from Reading (UK) for the Aug 11 1999 eclipse (published); a report from Manavgat (Turkey) for the March 29 2006 eclipse (published); a report from Kiev (Ukraine) for the Sept 11 2007 eclipse (published). In the above experiments we found abnormal instrumental behaviors (sudden sharp micro-deviations) that obey a precise structure of equally spaced time markers. The timing scheme was always the same in all of the above experiments. Subsequent research revealed that the scheme matched the one used by a very distant source of high-power, man-made, controlled radio signals. We conclude that the measuring instruments tracked by chance a campaign of RF-based eclipse experiments over the years, not gravitational phenomena. We report in more detail our two pendulum experiments and the gravimetric test of University of Trieste, spending fewer words on the other tests already described in their respective articles.

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“…The tests were carried out by a team of scientists from University of Turku, Finland, headed by Tom Kuusela. The results were already discussed in their published paper [5]. In Fig.…”

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“…The same features are present, although less markedly, in the lower panel of the same figure for the SN-pendulum. 16 Foucault pendulums and ball-borne pendulums 36 have more degrees of freedom than the horizontal pendulum, thus significantly increasing the difficulty for a quantitative analysis of possible gravity anomalies. 33 Several reports of putative gravity anomalies during solar eclipses observed with tilt-meters and similar devices are listed by Duif.…”

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“…It was found that there were no observable "eclipse related changes" at Antalya, but in Manavgat "there is some oscillation especially in the y-direction during the eclipse," while in Akseki "there are aperiodic oscillations during and nearby the eclipse but curiously also approximately 24 before and 24 hours after the eclipse" (p. 122004-6 in Ref. 37). It is submitted here that all those oscillations during and near the eclipse, and in the days before and after eclipse, are manifestations of gravity scattering, when the Sun and Moon are at a close angular distance.…”

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Gravity attenuation and consistency with observed solar eclipse gravitational anomalies

Múnera¹

2011

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During the solar eclipse of March 9, 1997, a Chinese group carried out an experiment specifically designed to detect possible gravity variations. They identified two significant anomalous lateral valleys, interpreted by them as a possible shielding effect of the Moon on the gravitational force of the Sun. This interpretation was criticized because only one central valley centered at maximum eclipse is conventionally expected. In April of 1918, Quirino Majorana started his work on gravity absorption at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin (Italy); experimentally he found that the value of his universal gravity quenching coefficient was h % 10 À12 cm 2 =g. In 1922, Majorana moved to the University of Bologna where he repeated the experiments obtaining h-values of the same order of magnitude. Estimates for h from the shielding of solar gravity by the Moon during solar eclipses typically are 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller, down to h % 10 À21 cm 2 =g from fluctuations of Moon's orbit. Then, some theoreticians discount the higher empirical laboratory values as being wrong. By analogy with photon attenuation in matter, an extension of Majorana's hypothesis is proposed here, where h represents both absorption and scattering, and becomes a variable parameter, dependent on the baryonic mix (Z, N) of the substance interacting with gravity. When attenuation is dominated by scattering, the residual gravity curve may exhibit two lateral valleys, as effectively observed in at least six solar eclipses from 1954 to 1999, described in the text. Therefore, gravity attenuation during solar eclipses is dominated by scattering instead of absorption as conventionally believed.Résumé: Au cours de l'éclipse solaire du 9 mars, 1997, un groupe chinois a réalisé une expérience spécifiquement conçu pour détecter de possibles variations de la gravité. Ils ont identifié deux importantes anomalies en forme de vallées latérales, interprétées par eux comme possiblement reliées à un effet d'écran de la Lune sur la force gravitationnelle du Soleil. Cette interprétation a été critiquée car une seule vallée centrée au maximum de l'éclipse est normalement prévue. La possibilité d'une absorption de la gravité, suggérée en 1920 par Quirino Majorana en Italie, est définie par le coefficient universel h % 10 À12 cm 2 =g qu'il a déterminé à partir de mesures en laboratoire. Les évaluations de h pour l'effet d'écran de la Lune sur l'attraction solaire pendant les éclipses solaires sont généralement inférieures de 2 à 3 ordres de grandeur, et même jusqu'à h % 10 À21 cm 2 =g en se basant sur les fluctuations de l'orbite de la Lune. Certains théoriciens considèrent alors que ces valeurs empiriques élevées sont fausses. Par analogie avec l'atténuation des photons par la matière, une extension de l'hypothèse de Majorana est proposé ici, où h représente à la fois l'absorption et la dispersion, et devient un paramètre variable qui dépend du mélange baryonique (Z, N) de la substance interagissant avec gravité. Lorsque l'atténuation est dominée par la dispersion et l...

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Gravitation experiments during the total solar eclipse

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Pendulum and gravimeter tests misled by remote man-made EM waves in solar eclipse days over years (false Allais effect)

Pendulum and gravimeter tests misled by remote man-made EM waves in solar eclipse days over years (false Allais effect)

Gravity attenuation and consistency with observed solar eclipse gravitational anomalies

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