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Boyd Bushman Experimental Improvements

Boyd Bushman performed a legendary experiment at Lockheed Martin decades ago. Now you can do the same experiment at home

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Boyd Bushman's experimental setup sounds simple, but various aspects of it make the experiment just a little too expensive or too dangerous to perform reliably and without confounding variables for most people. The drop with its original experimental parameters must be performed tens or hundreds of meters away from anything metal or magnetic, the magnets used in the original experiment were enormous, expensive and powerful enough to crush bones and cause lethal damage, and the drop must be performed with a very tall nonmetallic structure. With wooden dowel construction and a ceramic pulley system with a counterweight, we allow the drop tower to be 8 feet tall instead of many tens or hundreds of feet. We also show that it is possible to resolve the effect with a much smaller magnet. The results seem to point to an anomaly decoupling inertial and gravitational mass, or a change in the gravitational attraction of the magnets from the earth depending on their configuration.

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