Eric Laithwaite's lecture on gyroscopes part 1/7

[@luisgiron7319]

Lathwaite was the real deal, a real genius, we need to promote these videos and talk more about gyroscopes

[@jehovajah]

Thanks for posting these videos. I remember watching them as a young boy and missed all the politics and criticism he was experiencing from his peers because he mesmerised me with what he showed. I have found again aseries of lectures that so enthralled me that i even read a bit of a newspaper to see what they were saying about him! What he showed has not been properly dealt with even today.

[@sixmagpies]

This is a GREAT man. If the people of the world had a fraction of his open mindedness, and courage, they would not be so impoverished by their establishment master.

[@pluckerster]

I was privileged to have been lectured by him at university and it's the only lecture I remember!!!

[@MGDriver99]

Saw him give a lecture when I was about 5 - don't remember much apart from being utterly captivated!

[@andrea22213]

Professor, Sir Eric Laithwaite. A master.

[@SuperFinGuy]

This. Here's a man of integrity

[@aaronwalderslade]

The fundamental flaw is to see a rotating phenomenon as an object. It is not. It is made of matter, like an object, but it is not an object. It is a momentum transference device. For this reason the weight is mobile. If you want to understand this extraordinary proposition, please... ...watch my layman's explanation of how gyroscopes work using only geometry I've worked out myself, and there is a second video which gives my equation to calculate the dilution of weight in relation to the spin. (The weight does not reduce, but the effects of gravity are diluted in a similar way to the way Dolby reduces noise on a cassette tape) Here is the playlist. kzbin.info/aero/PLz4azdHbQ7mnmwAfm1LwwIqcLH9Ax3C5y

[@anothercomment3451]

Thankyou!

[@RHINO41153]

Brilliant

[@MrAaronvee]

Those who comment on this video might like to know that they are taking part in an educational experiment. The sillier comments and ideas are probably being laughed at by physics students all over the world. For details see: "Debunking a Video on KZbin as an Authentic Research Experience" by Philip Davidowsky and Michael Rogers, The Physics Teacher, volume 53, page 304 (2015).

[@JohnBoyX570]

+MrAaronvee Oh no. Physics students laughing at my "silly" ideas, thoughts, or quest for knowledge. Maybe I should think twice about entering the dialogue. I don't know if I'll be able to go on living. Just think of all those students laughing. I can't bear it. In truth, 99 percent of them will do less in their lifetime than Laithwaite accomplished in one decade. He was an original thinker - the linear induction motor and maglev are incredible concepts. For a majority of these students, the most they will ever accomplish is regurgitation of textbooks. It takes people like Laithwaite and Tesla to change the world. Tesla was howled at for saying things like this - "When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket." - Nikola Tesla, 1926

[@MrAaronvee]

+John Boy For an 'original thinker', it is odd that nothing that he 'invented' was original. Laithwaite was essentially a crackpot, and he would never have got very far if it had not been for the manpower shortage after WW2 (and before you try to laugh: he admitted that himself). Also, like that other worthless showman, Tesla, he counted on 'groupies' like yourself being ignorant of the history of science and technology. The linear induction motor was invented by Wheatstone, and magnetic levitation was foreseen by Maxwell (he even published a quite beautiful theoretical model for the phenomenon). Laithwaite was not even the first person to envisage Maglev. That was done by a Frenchman, early in the 20th century. As a child, Laithwaite saw his test track. Laithwaite abused his position to foist loony concepts on the general public. Levitation/propulsion by gyroscope? Ha Ha Ha. Moths communicating by radio? Ha ha ha. He who laughs last ...

[@JohnBoyX570]

Haha...I just found your blog. crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/2016/05/ Wow out of all the disciplines, physicists have to be the most insecure bunch. It matters not. This decade things will change. We are experiencing a renaissance of sorts. The erosion of time, will lay waste, the concrete of yesteryear, making it like sand in your grip. With the desperate clutch, increasing in firmness, the escape more free, increasing in flee, Until only a few grains of truth, Remain in hand.

[@MrAaronvee]

+John Boy What makes you think that that is my blog ... apart, of course, from the loony ranting of the awful 'professor' Evans who seems to think that everyone who criticizes him must necessarily be the same person.

[@JohnBoyX570]

+MrAaronvee Do you deny it? Dr. Evans seems like a nice enough guy. I personally don't like the idea of curved space time but it's his right to bark up that tree.

[@Paperweight64]

8:30

[@andrea22213]

I beg your pardon, you are quite correct. I thought he'd been awarded a knighthood. He should have been.

[@justlolatthisworld5402]

A knighthood would be an insult to Mr. Laithwaite.

[@dmc7088]

i dont think he was a SIR ,he was a man of INTEGRITY ...some thing NO SIR could ever be ....