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rexresearch.com, 2026-10-04 (Investigator, run 1)

URL: https://www.rexresearch.com/hooper/hooper1.htm (index page), plus /hooper/3656013.htm, /hooper/3610971.htm, /hooper/gibson.htm, /hooper/similarities.pdf, /hooper/NewHorizons.pdf Reached from Google query: "William J. Hooper" "motional electric field" Result: positive. Copies saved in research/files/ (rexresearch-*.htm, hooper-similarities.pdf, hooper-NewHorizons.pdf).

What is there

The index page collects Hooper material: both US patents, the Gibson monograph, the New Horizons book (PDF and HTML), "Similarities of the Motional Electric & Gravitational Forces" (PDF), the New Horizons essay already in the project folder, a 1996 review by James E. Hartman and an excerpt from Cravens' 1990 USAF study [web] https://www.rexresearch.com/hooper/hooper1.htm. Rexresearch is a compiler site; its transcriptions should be checked against originals where a verdict depends on them.

Findings

1. Second patent: US 3,656,013, "Apparatus for Generating Motional Electric Field" (granted 11 Apr 1972) [web] https://www.rexresearch.com/hooper/3656013.htm

  • Priority 1968-04-19. Google Patents gives application US722587A, i.e. the parent Ser. No. 722,587 that US 3,610,971 cites (see 2026-10-04-google-patents.md).
  • Hooper's principle in this patent: rotating an elongate magnetic field about its own axis makes the flux move, and moving flux gives E = B x V in the space around it. A non-uniform E pulls neutral matter toward stronger field, citing Jeans p.125 ("general theorem" that a dielectric is drawn toward stronger field).
  • Bears on claim 1 (moving flux). He gives an experiment, FIG. 11: two axially magnetized permanent magnets in a U-shaped iron yoke, a brass rod through them, and a stiff radial conductor in the air gap to a galvanometer. He reports:
  • rotating the conductor with the magnets fixed, and rotating the magnet system with the conductor fixed, give equal and opposite deflections;
  • the deflection is the same when only the yoke rotates and the magnets stay still;
  • there is no deflection when the magnets rotate and the yoke and conductor are fixed. He concludes that "the yoke structure plays an important part in controlling movement of the magnetic flux." This is a unipolar (Faraday-disk) induction experiment in the inventor's own words. No numbers are given.
  • Also described: a nested pair of counter-rotating electromagnet rotors inside a grounded box of high-permeability, conducting material. Net B outside is about zero, but the B x V fields are said to add and be demonstrable outside the shielding box with a capacitor and electrometer (FIG. 9-10). This is the rotating-machine version of the bifilar argument in US 3,610,971.
  • Further applications claimed: desalination, confining an arc plasma, and "transmuting hydrogen into helium". These are stated without data.
  • The claims cover hardware only: a rotor of identical DC solenoids with uniform polarity inside a grounded conducting enclosure, plus the FIG. 11 yoke/galvanometer apparatus.

2. "Similarities of the Motional Electric & Gravitational Forces" (W. J. Hooper; transcription typeset 2009) [web] https://www.rexresearch.com/hooper/similarities.pdf, saved as files/hooper-similarities.pdf

This document has the numbers the project folder lacks. Bears on claims 2 and 3. All of the following is Hooper's own report, as transcribed: - Generator. 4020 parallel formvar-insulated copper conductors, nine inches long, in series, turned through 180 degrees, epoxied into a solid cylinder. 2010 conductors carry current each way. Up to 30 A DC, which he equates to 120,600 ampere-turns. - Measurement setup. - A stainless-steel cylindrical capacitor around the generator. The inner cylinder (1/8 in) is grounded. The ends are sprayed with silver, forming a closed grounded shield. - The outer cylinder goes to a Keithley 640 head. The whole assembly sits in a grounded stainless cabinet. - Worked drift-velocity example. - Inputs: r1 = 0.1 m, r2 = 0.1035 m, n = 4020, I = 10 A, P.D. = 5 x 10^-6 V. - Formula: P.D. = (mu0 n I V / 2 pi) ln(r2/r1). - Result: V = 1.78 x 10^-2 m/s, which is 1.78 cm/s. - He sets this beside the classical v = j/(n e) = 1.762 x 10^-2 cm/s (j = 239.69 A/cm^2). - In his own words, a "decrease of 100-fold in n, as indicated by Fermi-Dirac statistics would bring the experimental value of the same order of magnitude as the theoretical". Later he says the values are "in good agreement with accepted values". - The measured and classical figures differ by a factor of about 100 (m/s against cm/s). Reviewers should check this. - Curve shapes. P.D. against DC current is a parabola (P.D. proportional to I^2, from B proportional to I and V proportional to I). Against AC current the curve is a straight line (Figs 2-3, not reproduced in the text layer). - Controls he reports. - (a) Thermoelectric. At 30 A the device takes about 3300 W and heats perceptibly in 4-5 minutes. Quick readings stepping 30 > 10 > 30 > 10 A were "substantially identical", with the needle returning to zero after each. He says the readings grow when the device warms up. - (b) Contact-potential / magnetic fringing on the inner plate. A larger outer capacitor was used with the first one grounded. - (c) Stray flux. The gaussmeter maximum was about 0.5 gauss at one spot. A five-wire pickup loop on a "very sensitive microvoltmeter" showed no emf up to 30 A. - (d) Lead-wire charge. Raising the housing above or below ground deflected the meter right or left. A special power supply was built to hold both leads at equal potential above and below ground. After that, deflections were "always to the right", which he reads as a field directed toward the generator. - (e) AC gave the same-sign deflection as DC. - Mechanical rotor. - A squirrel-cage rotor of electromagnets at 10,000 rpm gave 15 V AC in a pickup coil. - A semi-cylindrical capacitor over the rotor gave a DC voltage that reversed with rotation direction and with coil current direction. - "a disinterested expert in electronics measurements" checked the readings with a Tektronix oscilloscope. The expert is not named. - Analogy. Moving a wire inside a soft-iron magnetic shield across Earth's vertical field gives the same emf as without the shield. Hooper presents this as induction where the resultant B is zero. - Gravity link. Hooper argues that the motional fields of orbital electrons in all matter make up the weak gravitational field, and that it has never been detected as an electric field "due to its very high composite frequency nature".

Gibson was Hooper's secretary and laboratory assistant from March 1968. Her husband Warren W. Gibson financed the research 1968-1971. She says she was present at every experiment in that period. She is an interested party: she was a later officer of the company and the publisher and seller of the books. Her account is her characterization, alongside Hooper's. - Measured values. The expected signal was "in the low microvolt region". Example: 100 V, 26 A; the needle went -11 then +17 microvolts. With the current reversed, it went +28 microvolts. With the power supply balanced, the readings were equal in both directions. - Power-supply imbalance. She says the imbalance "was always a negative factor", so earlier readings were not redone. - Run period and conditions. 4 Feb to 19 Jul 1969. Readings were taken by hand at 5 A steps up to 30 A, while varying temperature, circuit resistance (rheostat, photofloods), current type and power supply. - Resistance effect. Adding resistance increased the PD. Hooper's explanation was fewer electrons drifting faster. - Dry-ice run (28 Feb 1969). After five hours packed in dry ice, the PD fitted PD = K I^4. Data at 10/15/20/25/30 A: 1.5/6/17/45/95 microvolts. Generator temperature was not recorded. She reads this as a change in drift velocity with temperature (claim 3). - Capacitor-plate thickness. Unequal plates reversed the reading; equal plates always gave a positive reading. - Hooper and T. Henry Moray. Hooper believed Moray had tapped Earth's gravitational field. This is a cross-link to the Moray material in the TernionAG project. - Later work. After Hooper's death in 1971 she tried a vacuum-tube generator of his design and burned out the tube. To her knowledge no one continued the work. In 1983 she wrote that "All the original equipment is still available."

4. Hartman 1996 review and Cravens 1990 excerpt (on the index page) [web] https://www.rexresearch.com/hooper/hooper1.htm

  • Hartman, an enthusiast review, says that "Hooper and along with others have claimed to have witnessed the gravitational and ANTIGRAVITATIONAL forces". No witness, date or data is given. This is single-source and second-hand; the witnesses still have to be found.
  • Cravens (SAIC, for USAF Astronautics Lab, Edwards AFB, Aug 1990), sec. 3.7 "Non-Inductive Coils". Quoted on the page: "There has been no critical experiment which can disprove whether a magnetic flux rotates with its source", and he suggests an experiment. The full study (AL-TR-89-040, AD-A227121) could not be fetched; DTIC was down (see 2026-10-04-dtic.md).

New Horizons book (PDF, 137 pp, LaTeX transcription 2011-2015) [web] https://www.rexresearch.com/hooper/NewHorizons.pdf, saved as files/hooper-NewHorizons.pdf

  • Same file (md5 9e344cb1...) as the copies at figueragenerator.wordpress.com and archive.org.
  • The transcriber notes that three physical copies are at Principia College Library, call number QC178 .H7 1974 (checked 23 Nov 2014).
  • The WWII aircraft drift-meter / shielding chapter starts near PDF p.9. "Aircraft" also appears on pp.15, 45 and 69. A Smythe comment on aircraft ground-speed measurement is around text line 1763.
  • The Moray discussion is near the end of the main text.
  • The appendix (from about p.71) holds the abstracts and papers, including the final article that, according to TFCBooks, Hooper finished two weeks before his death.
  • Not read in full in this run. It is the primary source for the WWII shielding experiments (claim 2) and needs a deep read.