Leon Dragone's work: "Energetics of Ferromagnetism" (Serious Only)?

Question

I need help to understand exactly what the paper talks about. I'm Leon's great-nephew, and I plan on taking up his work. I understand he mathamatically proved that Newman's machine was possible, and that you could propel objects around Earth with merely Gravity and the Coriolis Effect. I need explanations for these terms and the paper.

If you're so sure that it's faulty, why not check it? He already got critisiscm from a Harvard rep. And he told him off, showed him the math, and changed his mind. Lesson: Shut the hell up if you don't know what you're talking about.

Answer 1

See the references, and especially the bibliography in the third reference. Try searching for gravitonics. As some of the ideas are expressed, they imply a 'perpetual motion' capability. Among the things I would initially pursue:

1. Confirm the observed ferromagnetic thermal effect, that ferromagnetic transitions could absorb ambient heat.

2. Confirm the claimed Russian observations of a connection between magnetostriction and gravity.

3. Try to find out more about Newman's machine. If he is still alive, he might view your ancestry and plan as evidence that you are serious.

You can do the serious search that I can't do. There seem to be too many loose ends. Try to prepare a clear, scientific, well-documented review of the whole subject. If there is a flaw in the theories (besides the copout of the second law of thermodynamics), you should be able to discover it and document it. Even if that's the case, you may find some useful scientific results that people missed who dismissed the whole thing as quackery. It wouldn't be the first time. Good luck, and have fun!

Answer 2

I am not familiar with his work, and if he "proved" what you claim, his work is faulty. But I'll encourage you to look into it, and find the flaws. Much scientific progress is based on finding flaws in previous work. I have no information on either Dragone or Newman.