The following Tweetroll covers the experimental testing of Quantitized Inertia, a ‘warp drive’ theory that has a lot of sci-fi ramifications.
3/1
This might help visualize what is happening.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 1, 2020
As the center-of-gravity gets closer to center it becomes more accurate,
but if you go to far it will never balance at all and just tips to one side or the other.
CoG needs to be dead-close to zero to measure milligram/uG level. pic.twitter.com/IrASyJbJ5I
#QuantitizedInertia
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 1, 2020
I keep running into problems making a balance scale that is accurate and also stable.
It all has to do with center-of-gravity.
Machined a part so i can adjust center-of-gravity by hand.
If it works I'll make a 3dPrint .stl so others can replicate easily.😉 pic.twitter.com/9zqPF66VGe
3/5
Ordered some silver nitrate so I can test out making a custom mirror using the reduction method:https://t.co/ZSDQxN2ZnB
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 5, 2020
#QuantitizedInertia build update.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 5, 2020
The small ultrabright 10-20w LED's came in
(boy are those hard to solder)
The 'spray-on mirror' stuff used to paint the tapered cavity turns out to be a pretty poor solution. Lots of pinholes, even after putting 10+ coats of paint over it. pic.twitter.com/RMxXKl5dCW
The last 50 years of Cosmology in a nutshell:#ElectricUniverse #PlasmaCosmology #QuantitizedInertiahttps://t.co/AfNsp3QxKZ pic.twitter.com/dko2ioS8LS
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 6, 2020
3/6
Once you get the center-of-gravity down you can easily measure in the milligram level.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 6, 2020
After an hour of tinkering+calibration, best performance is ~1mm deflection per 1mg of mass
(using short pieces of very thin 32awg wire as test-loads)
I have some video too, but trust me it's not exciting at all.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 6, 2020
😴 pic.twitter.com/WCdg0WURio
#QuantitizedInertia build update:
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 6, 2020
Conclusion on the '3 razorblade balance scale' method:
It works and is VERY accurate, but it is also very slow due to the masses involved.
I could only pick up thermal currents😕
Oh well,going back to interferometer🛠️https://t.co/GOBkZ7uPXH pic.twitter.com/uorYdIlno2
This is what the fringes look like:
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 8, 2020
(in practice, the beams are very rarely this clear because of vibrations, air currents, etc)https://t.co/nI1iznOcPm
The scale itself is basically a balance scale sitting on top of a laser interferometer.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 8, 2020
An 'interferometer' is a super-accurate way of measuring changes in distance (like 1000th of a human hair)
It gives the balance beam a resolution of something like 0.0003degrees.🛠️😯 pic.twitter.com/4xw5Tn7ZuZ
Second apparently successful #QuantitizedInertia build test today.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 8, 2020
Still needs a lot of work to rule out other factors, but getting an apparent thrust between ~10uG and 100uG using a 10w LED.🙂
I'll eventually post the all the specs so other amateurs can replicate if curious😊 pic.twitter.com/c1Jn1HeVca
3/8
My goal is to eventually have a technique that is simple enough that high-schoolers can replicate.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 8, 2020
Not only will it make the process harder to dismiss, but we'd get a LOT more data points that way too.😊#QuantitizedInertia #QI pic.twitter.com/gwAks3AQAG
3/9
Someone else doing amateur #QuantitizedInertia 'baby warp drive' tests:
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 9, 2020
😁🧐 https://t.co/JtQONODSXO
3/13
I've been trying to publish a paper on retro-causality since 2036.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 14, 2020
😋 https://t.co/bXEPLFgOKT
3/14
Working on #QuantitizedInertia this weekend (baby warp drive thruster).
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 14, 2020
Been tinkering with a new wireless receiver. Should improve accuracy quite a bit once I'm rid of the umbilical power cable.
Causes a lot of problems when you're measuring micrograms. pic.twitter.com/rjFwrbh1xS
Not that pretty, but I got all the pieces together to do a fully-wireless EMDrive/QI test.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 15, 2020
(once I get the board mounted on the balance and everything dialed back in)
I'll have to do a custom PCB eventually to clean everything up.https://t.co/dkiXvwsf6s pic.twitter.com/W69AL1PoDo
3/15
One other side-project I am starting is a high-speed QI 'fringe-tracker'.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 15, 2020
Basically a counter that can track movement of fringes faster than the eye.
So if the fringes move quickly we can still count them. pic.twitter.com/4GuXCB7wPQ
3/16
When you're not sure if something will work, it's worth cobbling together a rough test before building the real thing.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 16, 2020
This was *supposed* to track interferometer fringe movement, but after tinkering, looks like I'm better off w/ a highspeed camera😗#QuantitizedInertia #QI pic.twitter.com/2NivQbpDzM
Short clip of the microgram balance I've been building to test #QuantitizedInertia.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 16, 2020
At the moment it still takes a lot of tinkering to get everything dialed-in to where it reliably detects below milligram level.
Probably needs another redesign.🛸🧐 pic.twitter.com/hzweEnXf7n
3/19
#QuantitizedInertia update:
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 19, 2020
Working on a good, final microgram balance design using what I've learned over the past few months.
We'll see this weekend how the plastic prototype model holds up🤞☺️ pic.twitter.com/Ky0bPljV8F
3/20
#QuantitizedInertia prototyping in-progress.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 20, 2020
This latest design is based on linear-rails, so if it works, it'll be much easier for others to replicate.
Servo-driven as well🧐
Microgram balances are neat; you can often measure less than 1/20th of a single grain of salt. pic.twitter.com/W3sGAZ1QCL
3/22
#QuantitizedInertia microgram balance build update:
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 22, 2020
Initial 3d-modeled linear-rail-based prototype is working beautifully. Easily dials down below the milligram level.
I wonder if there's a market for cheap, ultra-sensitive scales like this?#QI @memcculloch @ZKomala pic.twitter.com/ZwxtuefB7r
3/25
#QuantitizedInertia #QI build update.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 25, 2020
Huge progress today as I added magnetic dampening to the microgram balance.
It's such a night-and-day difference, absolutely amazing.
3d-printed microgram balance design coming pretty close to public release😗 pic.twitter.com/UHMFKTCd4A
3/26
#QuantizedInertia test today, fairly inconclusive result at 5w.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 27, 2020
There's a lot of factors involved, but this should give an idea what the setup looks like when in action.
I think the magnetic dampening might be too strong (diamagnetic force?) pic.twitter.com/vzIYr5pgtd
Just now realizing that I can actually use the razor blades as electrical contacts (with a couple minor changes).
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 27, 2020
I can test the 30w cavity now😄
It will introduce lorentz-force errors, but I can null that by powering in multiple polarities+orientations.https://t.co/53FvzmnsG4 pic.twitter.com/hdhBjIX97j
3/27
More build updates. (microgram balance for #QuantitizedInertia)
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 27, 2020
Designed a 3d-printed coupler to adapt a small stepper motor to the rig (eventually),
and testing out razor-blade based power transmission for the COB LED.
(worked beautifully) pic.twitter.com/1XkjOVafBS
Today's test for those interested.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 27, 2020
Qualitative, not qualitative, but it was successful.🙂
Working on a stepper-motor-based rig to be able to fully calibrate the results to fixed microgram values.https://t.co/UunX6r7Ro5 pic.twitter.com/DggnbdiRUC
3/27
I have a doppleganger on Youtube that posts similar impossible things.😉
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 28, 2020
Most of his videos are a lesson that you can do an incredible amount of high-level science and engineering using basically garbage.
Like a homemade 3d CT X-ray scanner:https://t.co/fDjimuae1b
3/30
A few recent updates from my #QuantitizedInertia precision balance build.
— Hakasays (@Hakasays) March 30, 2020
Getting pretty close to a 3d-printable balance that can reliably measure less than 1/10th of a milligram.
Also waiting on a few more parts to cobble together a motorized version. pic.twitter.com/70ty0G4IH5