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(12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2006/007 1122 A1 St US 2006007 1122A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2006/007 1122 A1 St. Clair (43) Pub. Date: Apr. 6, 2006 (54) FULL BODY TELEPORTATION SYSTEM (22) Filed: Sep. 29, 2004 (76) Inventor: John Quincy St. Clair, San Juan, PR Publication Classification (US) (51) Int. Cl. Correspondence Address: B64C 39/00 (2006.01) JOHN ST. CLAIR (52) U.S. Cl. ................................................................ 244/62 52 KINGS COURT (57) ABSTRACT SANJUAN, PR 00911 (US) A pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one (21) Appl. No.: 10/953,212 location to another. Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 1 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 1 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 2 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 3 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 3 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 4 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 4 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 5 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 5 t O . ars 9 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 6 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 6 a -2 s.30 a 40 as so safo 80 reso a 110 -20 -130 a.30 a.50 - 60 - 80 - 190 ln(wavelength) Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 7 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 7 V -10 -20 -30 - 40 -50 -80 -70 -80 -90 -100 -110 -120 -130 -14 -150 - 160 -70 -80 - 190 ln(wavelength) Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 8 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 8 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 9 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 9 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 10 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 10 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 11 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 11 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 12 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 12 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 13 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 13 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 14 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 14 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 15 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 15 Patent Application Publication Apr. 6, 2006 Sheet 16 of 16 US 2006/007 1122 A1 Figure 16 C -s F US 2006/007 1122 A1 Apr. 6, 2006 FULL BODY TELEPORTATION SYSTEM an angle 0 with the horizontal axis. The difference in time of travel to the receptor gives rise to a difference in phase 60 BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION equal to the angular velocity () of the rotating shaft times the 0001. This invention is a system that teleports a human length L times the cosine of the angle 0 being through hyperspace from one location to another using 80=(OL cos(0) a pulsed gravitational wave traveling through hyperspace. 0006. At the receptor, the amplitude of the wave is equal to the mass times the acceleration times the phase difference BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION divided by the radius r to the receptor 0002 The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor (“he”) personally experienced a full-body teleportation mo Lisin(20) while walking to the bus stop (A) along a road (B) that runs A = ind ce as (ulna olcos(8) perpendicular to the nearby commercial airport runways where planes are landing. There is a wide iron grating (D) for water drainage that crosses the road at the center of the Even though the turboprop airplane engines have a high bus stop. The grating width is such that one has to make a rotational speed and a large separation distance between concerted effort to jump across it in order to get from one masses, the gravitational wave which is produced is Small side to the other. Approximately 50 meters from the iron and not noticed. The problem is that the gravitational grating, he (E) felt a vertical wave (F), similar to a flag constant G in this dimension has such a small value equal to waving in the breeze, traveling down the street toward the the speed of light c squared divided by the linear mass S2 of bus stop. The wave velocity was about 1 meter per second, the universe which was slightly faster than his walking speed. In the next instance, he (G) found himself down the street near the corner of the next block. Realizing that he had passed the bus 2 (299792458 m/s) -i m' stop, he turned around to see the iron grating approximately G = ( = 1.3468.12891. 1027 kg/m. = 6.673200002. 10' kgs 50 meters up the street in back of him. Because there was no recollection of having jumped across the iron grating nor of having passed the bus stop's yellow marker line, he realized 0007 On the other hand, a gravitational wave traveling in that he had been teleported a distance of 100 meters while hyperspace would be magnified enormously due to the face moving along with the traveling wave. It was obvious that that the linear mass is so Small. The magnitude of the the wave was pulsed because the front edge overtook the gravitational constant in hyperspace can be estimated in the inventor, moved with him momentarily, and then the back following manner. At the beginning of the 20th century, a edge of wave left him as it moved on down the street. While man's parents were dying of tuberculosis. With their per contemplating this sequence of events, he then looked up mission, he placed them and their beds on weighing scales. and saw in a span of a few seconds a twin-turboprop airplane When each one passed away, each scale registered a drop in (C) in the distance crossing above the road while making a mass equal to 0.071 kilograms. This is the mass of the shallow descent in order to land at the airport. hyperspace energy being which resides in the physical body. 0003. It took a number of days in order to understand this Because hyperspace is co-dimensional with our dimension, sequence of events. The explanation involves knowledge of the energy being interpenetrates the body and controls its a wide range of Subjects such as gravitation physics, hyper moVement. space physics, wormhole electromagnetic theory and experi 0008 Referring to FIG. 4, a human being has seven mentation, quantum physics, and the nature of the human Vortices (A through G) which are aligned along the center energy field. line of the body. Each vortex is actually a co-gravitational 0004. It is obvious from the above scenario that the field K which causes a pendulum placed in the field to spin airplane momentarily crossing perpendicular to the road in circles. For this reason, the K field has units of inverse generates the aforementioned pulse. Because the airplane seconds similar to an angular velocity. The Vortex transports has an engine on each wing, there are two propellers which energy from our dimension to the energy being located in conceivably are rotating out-of-phase with each other. That hyperspace. The gravitational field g and the co-gravita is, the blade of one propeller could be pointing up and the tional field K are equivalent gravitationally to the electric E equivalent blade on the other engine could be pointing in a field and the magnetic B field found in electromagnetism. slightly different direction. Notice that the tip of the blade The equivalent gravitational Solution to an electromagnetic traces out a helix as the plane is landing. problem can be obtained by substituting the following 0005. In gravitation physics, referring to FIG. 2, it is gravitational constants for the electromagnetic constants known that two masses of mass m1 and m2 (A,B) attached by lever arms slightly offset by an angle 60 along the radial direction to the rotating shaft (C), will produce a gravita Electromagnetic Gravitational tional wave (D) traveling perpendicular to the shaft. The q (charge) m (mass) mass and wave are referred to as the Source and receptor p (volume charge density) p (volume mass density) respectively. Referring to a side view looking along the shaft O (Surface charge density) O (Surface mass density) FIG. 3, the product of the mass m times the angular (line charge density) (line mass density) accelerationa is a constant Such that m1a1 is equal to m2a2. J (convection current density) J (mass current density) The distance between the masses is length L., which makes US 2006/007 1122 A1 Apr. 6, 2006 0011. From quantum physics it is known that if there is a -continued temperature fluctuation occurring among a group of har monic oscillators in the environment, then Planck's reduced Electromagnetic Gravitational constant h is increased by the cotangent of the constant E (electric field) g (gravitational field) times the frequency () of the oscillator divided by twice B (magnetic field) K (co-gravitational field) Boltzmann's constant k times the temperature T eo (permittivity of space) -/4G lo (permeability of space) -4TG/c? -4Teo or - loc/41 G (gravitational constant) haon ) i = hcoth 2kT 0009 Referring to FIG. 5, each vortex is connected through the pineal gland by light cords to a separate hyper space quantum well having its own frequency and dimen 0012.
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