Gravity Wave Detector as Random Voltage Source?

[René Schmitz]

At 11:46 14.08.00 GMT, danial stocks wrote:

>I didn't know electrons were particularly affected by gravity.. Imagine, the 
>picture on your TV droops down off the edge of the screen because the 
>electrons are all falling.. or current flows mainly on the underside of the 
>conductors.. 

Hey, take a spinning metallic disc and the electrons would move along with
the centrifugal force. One would be able to get a voltage between the
center and the edge of the wheel. (Which of course will be used to power
the motor which keeps the wheel spinning ;-)

>I'd reckon any minor possible effect of gravity acting on 
>electrons would be more than negated by the electrostatic or magnetic fields 
>in a circuit.. now, if we had a single electron inside a huge evacuated 
>faraday shield, that would be different...

AFAIR gravity is one of the weakest forces in nature, the coulomb forces
are several magnitudes stronger.

Bye,
 René
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