THE GRAVITATING RING
The gravitating ring is a ring of mass that when spun up to sufficient velocity will gravitate (By gravitate is meant to operate on the principles of gravitation as laid out above.) with the distance between it's center and the center of mass of the earth or other such source of gravity tending to become greater due to the motion between the mass of the ring and the mass of the earth or other such object. At first as the ring is being spun up it will seem to become lighter and lighter. When the spin of the ring is sufficient that the mass of the ring is traveling at orbital velocity for it's distance from the center of mass of the earth it will become weightless. When spun faster still it will actually become propelled away from the earth or other such gravity producing body as if it were being pushed out by the gravity instead of being drawn in.
Experiments with gyroscopes can be found on the world wide web which show that a spinning gyroscope when dropped will fall at a slower rate than a non spinning object. It is speculated that there is something about spin that causes this. However it is not the fact of spin that causes this reaction. It is not the gyroscopic action in the gyroscope that causes this reaction. And it is not the centrifugal action in the gyroscope that causes this reaction either. These are all different phenomena and are not related to the gravitational reaction that occurred. It must be understood that while spin and therefore gyroscopic and centrifugal action all exist in the gravitating ring they are neither the source nor the result of the gravitational reaction that occurs between the ring and the earth or other such source of gravity.
The gravitating ring hovers on the same gravitational principles that keep an object such as the international space station or the moon in orbit. It is the interplay of gravity, motion and distance. We are going to break this down here to show how that is.
For simplicity's sake we are going to look at an object in a perfectly circular orbit about the earth. (figure 4.)
The first vector is the gravity vector. It is straight downward from the object's center toward the center of the Earth. This vector is acting to shorten the distance between the center of the object and the center of the Earth. It is a radiant vector meaning that no matter where the object is the vector's direction is always from the object's center toward the center of the Earth.
The second vector is the objects inertial or motion vector. The motion is relative to the earth and it is perpendicular to the gravity vector. The motion vector is a straight line vector meaning that it's direction is always on a straight line through the center of the object. If you follow this vector out along the line that the object would follow if influenced only by this vector you will see that that his vector is acting to increase the distance between the center of the object and the center of the earth. (figure 5.)
