Copasetic Flow

 I'm getting some bandwidth to put more work into my book about Boleslaw Gladych and his connections to the gravity (and antigravity) research communities that included characters like Agnew Hunter Bahnson Jr. during the 1950s.  I found an article [pdf], (pamphlet? it's 42 pages), that sheds more light on the woork DeWitt did with superconductors and gravitomagnetic fields in the '60s. Take a look at page 34 where DeWitt comments on his work to try to verify Bahnson's fringe pet project: Thomas Townsend Brown's gravitators. There you'll find a reference to DeWitt looking into superconductor theory .  I also found a nice little JSTOR blog post on the whole Babson and Bahnson Gravity Days era. I haven't seen anything new in it yet, but I aslo haven't taken the time to focus on it. Speaking of DeWitt, this history of the UNC Field Institute is interesting in that it mentions DeWitt's work related to 'large spaceships'.  One final note, Wolfgan...

 I came across this video from one of the history of physics talks I gave at a conference while still in grad school. It's come up in our converstations around here because the oldest kid and I have started work again on a book all about fringe physics fans—read millionaires—in the 19502 funded actual physics in addition to their antigravity shennanigans. We're breaking out all my old history of physics research and getting back into it. I'll keep you posted on how things go. We're workign on a mystery movie style murder board detailing the connections between all the people involved. You'll see some of the connections in the video above. We'll be talking more about other connections soon. In the mean time, here's a primer I on all of this wrote for theMarySue.com a few years back. Weird aside: My byline has been replaced by the name of my editor from back in the day when I wrote the primer I mentioned and linked to above. Fortunately, my bio's still ...

I've recently started reading Agnew Hunter Bahnson Jr.'s "The Stars are Too High".  Given the history of physics research I've done regarding Bahnson, I can't believe I haven't read it before, but I'm reading it now.  My copy arrived a few days back, and even though I'm only about a fifth of the way through the book, it's been very intriguing! First off, I seem to have come into possession of a copy that was owned by two different sci-fi fanzine editors, one of whom became a published sci-fi author.  The name Tim Eklund by itself wouldn't have meant much, but when coupled with the name on the opposite side of the book's opening, Hank Lutrell, it began to come into focus.  Hank turns up immediately as the editor of a fanzine.  In the context of fanzines, I quickly found a link that indicated that Tim Eklund was more formally known as Gordon Eklund.  I haven't been able to confirm this is the case yet, but in any event, I learned ...