The Thomas Townsend Brown Family Website

May 23, 1978

Dear Mr. K,

I am sorry I have not been able to answer your interesting letter until now. As you may know, I am retired and no longer engaged in research. If this work is being carried forward in government laboratories or elsewhere, I am not aware of it. There was a flurry of interest at one time and then it appeared simply to die out.

In summary, I cannot be encouraging to you as an independent investigator. The research is quite expensive, requiring large high voltage installations and vacuum chambers not readily available outside of well financed industrial or government laboratories.

The most interesting phenomenon, which has yet to be explained, is the so-called Biefeld-Brown Effect in massive high-K capacitors. i.e, the tendency of a dipole to move in the negative-to-positive direction (in vacuum). This phenomenon was observed as early as 1926, was confirmed in several well-financed experiments in France (1955-56) and in the U.S. several years later.

Adequate theory does not exist to foretell or explain the findings and so, as is often the case, the scientific community pays little attention. This is true also in the case of contra-terrene "non-equivalence" of inertial and gravitational mass - a subject almost taboo today.

My advice, given to you with considerable regret, is to forget it and spend no money on it personally. Let the established government laboratories run with it in their own time.

Sincerely,

T. Townsend Brown