Douglas Torr

Dr. Douglas G. Torr is presently employed by the US Department of Defence, working on classified projects as a consequence of his company PST Associates LLC status of a former US Department of Defense contractor.

Earlier, Dr. Torr had collaborated with Dr. Ning Li at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on the following research:

• “Gravitational Effects on the Magnetic Attenuation of Superconductors”, Physical Review B, V46, N9, p. 5489 (SEP 01 1992)
• “Effects of a Gravitomagnetic Field on Pure Superconductors”, Physical Review D, V43, N2, p. 457 (JAN 15 1993)
• “Gravitoelectric-Electric Coupling via Superconductivity”, Foundations of Physics Letters, V6, N4, p. 317 (AUG 01 1993)
• http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/site/member/?memberid=553

Prof. Timir Datta was involved in the university-funded development of a “Gravity Generator” in 1996 and 1997, with then-fellow university researcher Dr. Douglas G. Torr. According to a leaked document from the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of South Carolina and confirmed to Wired Magazine reporter Charles Platt in 1998, the device would create a “force beam” in any desired direction and the university planned to patent and license this device. Neither information about this university research project nor any “Gravity Generator” device was ever made public. Despite the apparent less than successful outcome of the “Gravity Generator” development effort with Douglas Torr, Timir Datta became interested in the effects of electric fields on gravitation, expanding on Torr’s theoretical work on the subject.

EXCERPT from patents of Dr. Douglas Torr

The first and second electrodes are aligned to produce an inhomogeneous electric field when charged with a voltage potential and generate a gravitational effect. The electric field of the charged sphere is radial and therefore spherically symmetric. The spherical symmetry in turn produces a gravitational field with spherical symmetries. The electric field, E, of the charged sphere will decrease as 1/r², where r is the distance from the center of the sphere. The derivative of the field scales as E/r where r is distance from the center of the sphere. Depending on the sign of its charge, the charged sphere would generate a gravitational force that would act to either attract or repel massive objects to or away from the center of the sphere.

A time-dependent electric field will produce a time-dependent propagation of a gravitational field away from the source at the speed of light with each cyclic reversal. Because of the miniaturization of the capacitor cells, the applied voltage could be varied at frequencies up to and beyond gigahertz. Amplitude or frequency modulating the source voltage using known techniques would produce a communication capability.

A device for generating an inhomogeneous electrical field includes first and second electrodes. The first electrode may be a portion of a sphere, a cone, a paraboloid, a cylinder; a hollow sphere, a hollow cone, a hollow paraboloid, or a hollow cylinder. The second electrode may be a portion of a sphere, a cone, a paraboloid, a cylinder, a hollow sphere, a hollow cone, a hollow paraboloid or a hollow cylinder.

Not surprisingly, all ideas in the above EXCERPT come from the 80 years old original research into the Biefeld-Brown effect:

Biefeld-Brown effect

There have also been reports of gravitational effects produced by devices involving various combinations of time-dependent electromagnetic and static electric and magnetic fields. Recent years have witnessed attempts to develop these technologies, as evidenced by the interest exhibited by various government agencies including NASA, DOD and the Department of Energy.

In July 2001, a three-day meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) was held in Utah. V. Roschin and S. Godin presented a paper: An Experimental Investigation of the Physical Effects in a Dynamic Magnetic System. (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2001 Meeting, AIAA-2001-3660). The paper described an assembly of static and rotating magnets, which purportedly achieved a gravitational effect. The authors reported reductions in observed weight ranging up to 35%. However, the paper gave no theoretical basis for the result.

Professor Timir Datta of the University of South Carolina and Dr. Ming Yin of Benedict College claim to have observed a gravitational effect in an experiment that placed a test mass in an electric field. They reported a change in weight of up to 6.4 parts in 10⁶. An electric field was produced by an electrode pair comprised of a cone and a flat plate.

Another contribution to the theoretical understanding of gravitational and electromagnetic effects and their interrelation can be found in J. G. Vargas & D. G. Torr, The Cartan–Einstein Unification with Teleparallelism and the Discrepant Measurement of Newton’s Constant G, in Foundations of Physics, 29, 145-200 (1999).

References

• Datta et al., “Gravitational Experiments Involving Inhomogeneous Electric Fields,” submitted to Nature magazine for publication 1999, unpublished.
• Dimofte, “An Experiment Concerning Electrically Induced Gravitational Force,” Masters Degree Thesis, University of South Carolina, 1999.
• R.L. Talley, “Twenty First Century Propulsion Concept”, Veritay Technology, Inc. report, May 1991.
• D.L. Cravens, “Electric Propulsion Study”, Science Applications International Corp report, Aug. 1990.

Patents

• http://patents.justia.com/patent/6891712
• http://patents.justia.com/patent/7327548

US7327548

15 Sep 2004

5 Feb 2008

Pst Associates, Llc

Field converter

US6891712

17 Oct 2002

10 May 2005

Pst Associates, Llc

Field converter

US20050030139 *	15 Sep 2004	10 Feb 2005	Pst Associates, Llc	Field converter
US20050099761 *	15 Sep 2004	12 May 2005	Pst Associates, Llc	Field converter for thrust generation
WO2006033817A2 *	7 Sep 2005	30 Mar 2006	Pst Associates, Llc	Field converter for thrust generation
WO2006033817A3 *	7 Sep 2005	16 Apr 2009	Pst Associates Llc	Field converter for thrust generation

From the left:   Douglas Torr,  Ning Li,  and Larry Smalley  —