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Has the Equivalence Principle Been Violated?
Background
Lockheed Martin Senior Scientist Boyd Bushman in an interview in the documentary "From Here to Andromeda" stated that he had conducted free-fall experiments with magnets and they fell at different rates than an ordinary control object.
In 1988 the existence of the "Alien Reproduction Vehicle" was leaked by Brad Sorenson and Mark McCandlish and was claimed to have a solenoid coil, a coil with a north and south pole, around the circumference of the craft, not unlike a permanent magnet.
To my knowledge no papers of free-fall experiments with magnets has ever been published in a peer reviewed physics journal.
Exploratory Magnet Free-Fall Experiment
I decided to conduct an exploratory magnet free-fall experiment with one of the most powerful commercially available magnets around, K&J Magnetics N42, 2"OD x 1/4"ID x 1"H magnets with 205lbs of pulling force; in three possible combinations, one attractively coupled, dropped both south pole first and north pole first and two repulsively coupled: NS/SN, SN/NS as well as a control.
All combinations experienced an acceleration rate measured by a BMI270 IMU of approximately 9.8m/s2, gravity, as would be expected, except for the attractively coupled magnet object falling in the direction of its north to south pole. In this exploratory experiment it accelerated on average 11.1509 m/s2 when dropped from a height of approximately 2.13 meters.
From this experiment I came up with three potential hypotheses to explain the NS/NS magnet's behavior:
- inertial mass is decreasing
- gravitational mass is increasing
- both inertial mass is decreasing and gravitational mass is increasing
Gravitational Mass Experiment
To eliminate the two hypotheses involving alterations to gravitational mass I conducted a gravitational mass experiment with those same magnets and an analytical balance. All magnet objects were virtually identical in mass, about 771 grams.
Experimental Refinements
I have since refined the size and shape of the plastic shell and foam that encase the magnets in the free-fall experiments as well as created a computer controlled dropbox to replace my early use of hand dropping, I have continued to use IMUs (BMI270, BNO055, ICM20649 and ISM330DHCX) for measuring the acceleration of the free-fall objects, and lastly I have used a Mahony filter to fuse accelerometer and gyroscopic data for more accurate acceleration results.
Currently Under Construction
A dual drop dropbox that will be suspended from the bottom of a 50 ft boomlift from which twenty five trials of dual drops with an NS/NS magnet and a non-magnetic, non conductive, control will take place.
The experiment will be live-streamed for several reasons:
- Eliminate claims of fraud with the experiment such as using an extremely light object for the control or the free-fall objects being cgi.
- To give interested individuals such as Connecticut university physics and engineering students who lack transportation the ability to view this potentially world changing experiment live or at any time later online.
- To give the world the ability to conduct analysis of the free-fall trials with the physics program Tracker that can be used to calculate acceleration in video recordings.
Don't Miss What Could Be the First Public Video Proof of the Violation of the Equivalence Principle!!
The tentative date and time is 12:00pm on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at Allyn Brook Park in Durham, CT 06422. Just look for the boomlift.
The livestream link is: https://youtube.com/live/9Pv7_1IVay0
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Funding Source
This sole proprietorship is bootstrapped, funding is from existing savings, a GoFundMe account, and a Patreon account. No funding outside of these two sources is being provided.
