Inventions
I have come up with different ideas over the years that would qualify as inventions if I can manage to get them to work. The only one that actually exists at present is the “Astro-Grid.”
Inertial Propulsion
I have invested more than 10,000 hours trying to invent an inertial propulsion machine. The effects would be similar to “anti-gravity.” The image above shows one of my attempts that failed.
When you toss a ball into the air it keeps going upward even after you stop pushing on it because the force from your arm and hand puts something called inertia into the ball. Gravity works against inertia, and when the inertia runs out, the balls falls to the ground.
Imagine a little machine inside the ball that would constantly add more inertia, so instead of falling back to the ground, the ball would keep flying upward all the way into outer space.
Mainstream science believes that inertial propulsion is impossible. That is because Newton’s third law says (basically) every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. In other words, if the machine inside the ball pushes upward on the ball, an equal and opposite force MUST push downward. If you push in opposite directions with equal force, the ball won’t go anywhere.
What I have been attempting to do for more than 40 years is try to find a way to push harder in one direction than in the other direction. If that can be achieved, it would be possible to build almost silent “flying cars” and get to Mars in 3 days instead of 6-7 months. It would totally transform the world.
Newton’s third law is a fact of reality. The “trick” would be to find a way to cause that “equal and opposite” force to not be opposite. This actually happens all the time. If the force were ALWAYS equal and opposite, when you drop a rock into a pond the rock would bounce. It doesn’t bounce because the water molecules get pushed in different directions and much of the energy ends up going sideways in the form of waves. This proves that equal and opposite is NOT always true.
I will be building a new inertial propulsion test unit soon (summer 2025) which takes into account things like varying acceleration/deceleration, angular momentum and precessional forces. Everything has to be computer controlled in order to maintain synchronization of the various parts, so it is a complicated thing to build. The math indicates that it won’t be able to fly but it should push itself across the floor without pushing against the floor. The test unit will be a “closed system” because it does not interact with the environment or throw material away from itself like rocket engines do. Mainstream science says, “no closed system can propel itself through space.” Maybe they are right… BUT… if I can get my test unit to propel itself across the floor, that would prove inertial propulsion is actually possible. That should enable me to get financing for my even more complicated designs that would be much more efficient and definitely fly. Wish me luck! :)
Audio Animation
Audio Animation in my theoretical process for generating animated, 3-dimensional “sound shapes” or “pictures you see with your ears.”
If you move your arm in a big circular pattern while continually snapping your fingers, you will hear a circle. The circle is perceived because your mind recognizes the apparent location where each “snap” occurs and how those locations are positioned in 3-dimensional space.
The human auditory system can localize the apparent source of a sound by analyzing the variables in the sound waves as they strike each ear. Differences in frontal wave arrival time, amplitude, reverberation and frequency content all contribute to detecting the apparent source of a sound. By controlling the variables in the sound waves for a listener wearing headphones, it is possible to position the apparent source of a sound anywhere in the 3-dimensional space surrounding the listener. These sounds can be organized in different shapes and the shapes can be animated, suspending the listener in the center of a spherical world made of sound.
Potential applications include music, video games, movies and mobility aids for the blind.
Astro-Grid
The Astro-Grid is the backbone of my astrological compatibility websites, astro-dating.com and astro-grid.com. It consists of a checkerboard-like display that lists one person’s planets in a column on the left and the other person’s planets in a row across the top. When any two planets are “within orb” (close to being at a particular angle to each other) a compatibility score for that “aspect” appears in a corresponding grid square. Clicking on the score pops up a personalized interpretation for how the interaction of those two planets affects compatibility.