Author: John D. Francis, nanjo_02@yahoo.co.uk.

Title: The Allais Effect and an Unsuspected Law of Gravity.

Abstract

Anomalies in measurements made with pendulums and torsion balances have led to a suggestion of the reconsideration of the laws of gravitation. This paper discusses the anomalies and postulates that there is a need for an addition to the existing laws of gravitation. Hitherto, gravitation influences of the Sun and Moon result in the well documented rise and fall of sea and ocean tides. Tide tables are calculated from knowledge of the micro changes of Earth’s gravity. What does not appear to be documented is an analysis of the rate of change of magnitude and direction of gravitational tilt and its resolved horizontal component (circular anisotropy) at any particular location on the Earth’s surface. The purpose of this paper is to show that the horizontal direction of the gravitational tilt rotates in an undulating manner with varying magnitude. It is shown that such rotation results in relatively sharp increases in angular acceleration giving rise to horizontal torque. It is also shown that this torque is the reason why very sensitive instruments such as paraconical pendulums and torsion balances react in the way experimenters have reported. These effects are sensitive to the tilt of Earth’s axis and to the tilt of lunar orbit with respect to the ecliptic. Anomalies are, in fact, the most normal physical manifestation that can be expected when this additional previously unknown law of gravity is taken into consideration.

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Comments:

1. René Verreault. Comment on ‘The Allais Effect and an Unsuspected Law of Gravity’ by J.D. Francis
2. Maria Podarovskaya. Comment on ‘The Allais Effect and an Unsuspected Law of Gravity’ by J.D. Francis