Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!hou2g!stekas From: stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: grav at Lake Dalton Message-ID: <596@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 17:28:19 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2g.596 Posted: Thu Aug 15 17:28:19 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 03:29:14 EDT References: <974@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 24 > In the past I've heard about some places in Michigan and Wisconsin > where one can experience some weird gravitational phenomenon. ... > The site is the side of a very small valley. A "platform" (originally > the site of a cabin) is built midway up the side. The peculiar thing > is that ... one cannot walk a straight line across the platform parallel > to the side of the hill. The problem is that the "pull" (here I will > not imply a cause) is *significantly* non-uniform. ... > Can anyone out there glean some > information on this site at Lake Delton regarding these anomalous > gravitational effects... or have I been taken in by a guy selling > "snake oil". > > Gary Take a plumb bob and protractor out on a clear night and see how much the gravitational field varies with respect to the "fixed stars" over the platform's surface. A little Newtonian mechanics and elementary geometry will tell you whether you found a black hole (and where it is) or just "snake oil". I will spare the net my own extremely biased opinion on how the experiment will turn out. Jim