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	Perpetual Motion Revisited
		If Cavorite were to exist, and allow the construction of a perpetual motion machine as I have drawn in my cartoon, then it would have to operate as follows.
		The Cavorite would have to alter the gravitational field in such a way that an element of the wheel would gain or loose gravitational potential energy as it made a path around the axle.
		Cavorite understood in this way would be the equivalent of a mass-current, and produce some gravitational equivalent to a magnetic field.
	www.kilty.com /pmredux.htm (1242 words)

	The First Men In The Moon, by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells; The First Making of Cavorite Page 1
		Consequently Gibbs ceased to replenish the furnace, and no one else did so, and Cavor was too much immersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) to perceive that anything was wrong.
		And the premature birth of his invention took place just as he was coming across the field to my bungalow for our afternoon talk and tea.
		Cavor, kicking and flapping, came down again, rolled over and over on the ground for a space, struggled up and was lifted and borne forward at an enormous velocity, vanishing at last among the labouring, lashing trees that writhed about his house.
	www.pagebypagebooks.com /H_G_Herbert_George_Wells/The_First_Men_In_The_Moon/The_First_Making_of_Cavorite_p1.html (507 words)

	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She believes Manchu had obviously stolen the cavorite for some nefarious purpose, and states that there is an uncompleted tunnel beneath Rotherhithe Bridge, which would be a perfect place for him to craft some form of aerial war machine without being discovered.
		Having stolen the cavorite, Murray and Quatermain are re-united with Hyde and Griffin in an underwater glass tunnel, and although they lock themselves in they realise it will only be a matter of time before Manchu's men burst in and kill all of them.
		Bond congratulates the group upon the success of their mission, and leaves the Nautilus with the cavorite, telling them he will take it back to his superior M. However, Griffin is oddly absent from the group, having disguised a load of brooms (as himself) using his own bandages, spectacles and clothing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen (3501 words)

	Notes, Reports, and Correspondences: 6
		Cavorite most likely can trace its ancestry to the explanation by Aristotle of how objects fall to Earth because it is part of their nature to seek unity with the largest available object comprising the element (earth) of which they are made.
		If Earth's gravity were suddenly to be nullified by the use of Cavorite the sphere would take off from the surface at a tangent to the instantaneous direction in which Earth was moving when the gravity was nullified.
		Fremlin assumes that Cavorite (or any other antigravity method) violates the second law of thermodynamics, which would be true if it could be turned on and off without using more energy than can be obtained from it (how does one "turn off" a metal?).
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/6/notes6.htm (2853 words)

	Anti-gravity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alternatively, depending on the mechanism assumed to underlie the gravitational force, it may seem reasonable to postulate a material that shields against gravity or otherwise interferes with the force.
		An example of such a material, cavorite, is a major deus ex machina of H.
		Wells' famous book, The First Men in the Moon, though it should be noted that Cavorite isn't consistent with even a Newtonian view of the universe (it causes violations of conservation laws).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antigravity (1321 words)

	First Men in the Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American authorities trace the aged Bedford to a British nursing home, and he tells them the story of the true first lunar expedition.
		In 1899, Victorian Britain, Professor Joseph Cavor invents Cavorite, a substance that will allows objects to deflect the force of gravity.
		He builds a spherical spaceship that travels to the Moon using the antigravity properties of Cavorite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Men_In_The_Moon (372 words)

	Cavorite - Memory Alpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cavorite is a chemical element listed on the Table of Elements.
		The element Cavorite had the symbol "CO" which is the same atomic symbol (half-capitalized) used for Cobalt.
		It was apparently named for the fictional element from H.G. Wells' "The First Men in the Moon." Cavorite was supposedly impervious to gravity and could shield other materials from its effects.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Cavorite (127 words)

	Challenger 19 -- Weighty Comments On Cavorite, Cuyler W. "Ned" Brooks
		If Cavorite were interposed between the Earth and a bowling ball, the bowling ball would no longer be attracted to the Earth.
		In fact, if energy were not removed from the wheel (as by a brake or an electric dynamo), the wheel would spin faster and faster until it either reached an equilibrium with air and bearing friction or exploded when the centripetal strain exceeded the strength of the material.
		Alas, it's a good thing the Cavorite shield can be only one atom thick, because to achieve full nullification of gravity to 150 miles, it will have to be about 2000 miles in diameter.
	www.challzine.net /19/19brooks1.html (1050 words)

	Cavorite by H.G. Wells from The First Men in the Moon
		Consequently Gibbs ceased to replenish the furnace, and no one else did so, and Cavor was too much immersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance ep the air and one or two other points) to perceive that anything was wrong.
		You see, over our Cavorite this ceased to be the case, the air there ceased to exert any pressure, and the air round it and not over the Cavorite was execerting a pressure of fourteen pounds and a half to the square in upon this suddenly weightless air.
		The air above the Cavorite was forced upward violently, the air that rushed in to replace it immediately lost weight, ceased to exert any pressure, followed suit, blew the ceiling through and the roof off.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=717 (793 words)

	First Men in the Moon, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Cavorite was half made by March, the metallic paste had gone through two of the stages in its manufacture, and we had plastered quite half of it on to the steel bars ad.
		When the bolting together of the sphere was finished, he proposed to remove the rough roof of the temporary laboratory in which the work was done, and build a furnace about it.
		So the last stage of Cavorite making, in which the paste is heated to a dull red glow in a stream of helium, would be accomplished then it was already on the sphere.
	www.manybooks.net /pages/wellshgetext97fmitm10/32.html (297 words)

	Great Moments in Science - An Anti-Gravity Machine
		Cavorite had the unique property of being able to block any gravitational field.
		So if you made a sheet of cavorite, and laid it down on the ground, all the atmosphere directly above it would be shielded from the Earth's gravity, and would promptly zip off into space.
		The heroes make a spacecraft out of this cavorite stuff, and then proceed to go to the Moon and have their adventures.
	www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/gmis9739.htm (797 words)

	Armoury - Brave New World Journal #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cavorite - This is a beryllium isotope which blocks gravitational attractions and, with an electric charge, can actually reverse the force.
		In its elemental state cavorite is a gas.
		These have two jets which use cavorite for lift but which draw in and expel air to propel the wearer.
	my.ohio.voyager.net /~gtolle/LoEA/BNWJ/BNWJ1/Armoury.htm (2077 words)

	Cavorite Sphere Versus Martian Gun
		Cavorite violates the principle of conservation of energy of course.....
		It would be inevitable that had they exploited the invention of Cavorite then they would have got rich raping the moon just as mankind was even then raping the earth.
		Cavorite is merely a literary device to get his protagonists to the moon.
	robk.proboards13.com /index.cgi?board=othernovels&action=print&thread=1059134414 (3403 words)

	Anti-gravity -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Additionally, depending on the mechanism assumed to underlie the gravitational force, it may seem reasonable to postulate a material that shields against gravity or otherwise interferes with the force.
		Wells' famous book, The First Men in the Moon, though it should be noted that Cavorite isn't consistent with even a Newtonian view of the universe (it causes violations of (additional info and facts about conservation law) conservation laws).
		Gravity was no longer a force at all, but simply the consequence of the local slope of the universe in a direction the human eye cannot see: (The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past) time.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anti-gravity.htm (1040 words)

	Underdark
		An artifact fashioned, wholly or in part, out of Cavorite was lost when it was uncovered by accident, and promptly 'fell' to the roof of the cavern.
		The constable was called away from the interview by reports of a murder, or rather a series of murders.
		Apparently an entire room of Cavorite gatherers, while in the back room of a tavern sleeping off the profits they had drunk, had been strangled.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /EFBQ/Underdark/log001.html (1162 words)

	Mysterious Galaxy: 'N' Science Fiction/Fantasy Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ship's landers, Cavorite and Columbiad, and the equipment they carried were all that was left behind.
		Following the disappearance of the Argos, Cavorite also abandoned the colony, leaving behind a trail of molten lava which would come to be called the Road.
		Jemmy has often wondered where the Road leads and what became of Cavorite, but as the oldest son he is destined to inherit the family farm.
	www.mystgalaxy.com /scifi_n.html (1816 words)

	Destiny's Road
		For the settlers of Spiral Town, the largest known remaining colony, Cavorite is a name that conjures awe and wonder still, for its final voyage left behind a dominant and lasting mark on the planet's surface and a key to their survival: the Road.
		Wide and smooth, it was seared into a flow of molten lava by the fusion drive of the Cavorite as the landing craft hovered a meter above the planet's rocky surface.
		The other lander, Cavorite, extended the Road down the peninsula known as the Crab towards the distant mainland; it never returned.
	www.robtee.com /books/Destinys-Road.htm (520 words)

	Mars: A Different Look At The Red Planet
		Ghama flight is accomplished by a combination of wings and body tissues impregnated with Cavorite by natural processes.
		Cavorite hulls can last for centuries, so despite the fact that the Tasminra produce only a few airships every year, there are some 7000 vessels in the skies over Mars.
		The cities are enormous disks of the antigravity metal Cavorite, a mile in diameter.
	www.heliograph.com /trmgs/trmgs3/cambiasmars.shtml (10292 words)

	The First Men in the Moon (2 - The First Making of Cavorite) - Lamps
		Consequently Gibbs ceased to replenish the furnace, and no one else did so, and Cavor was too much immersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) to perceive that anything was wrong.
		You see, over our Cavorite this ceased to be the case, the air there ceased to exert any pressure, and the air round it and not over the Cavorite was exerting a pressure of fourteen pounds and a half to the square in upon this suddenly weightless air.
		The air above the Cavorite was forced upward violently, the air that rushed in to replace it immediately lost weight, ceased to exert any pressure, followed suit, blew the ceiling through and the roof off.
	www.wells.omnia.co.uk /first-men-moon/2thefirstmakingofcavorite.htm (2402 words)

	Re: Cavorite Travel Times
		On 2 Dec 2003 13:23:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaak Suurpere) wrote: >If you start at the equator and pull on the cavorite shutters all >around you, your ship will start to rise spontaneously because the >force of gravity is eliminated, but that of the centrifugal >acceleration will persist.
		If you approach the moon at the right angle, you could approach as slowly as 500 m/s or so, but at this point I don't see how you can match the orbital velocity.
		By closing the curtains on the Moon side you will merely >decrease the pressure you exert on the Moon, but it remains positive: >any celestial body opposite will be attracting Moon, anyway, and the >centrifugal force is always towards the Moon.
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/rec.arts.sf.science/msg04669.html (338 words)

	Internet Book List :: Book Information: Destiny's Road
		For the settlers of Spiral Town, the largest known remaining colony, Cavorite is a name that conjures awe and wonder still, for its final voyage left behind a dominant and lasting mark on the planet's surface and a key to their survival: the Road.
		Wide and smooth, it was seared into a flow of molten lava by the fusion drive of the Cavorite as the landing craft hovered a meter above the planet's rocky surface.
		Others are sure the Cavorite exploded or the crew was killed by undiscovered Destiny creatures.
	www.iblist.com /book2723.htm (286 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - the Graphic Novels
		They meet Professor Cavor, the creator of Cavorite, a gravity-repelling substance that will be instrumental in providing a power source to the planned expedition to the moon in 1900.
		The Cavorite propels the foursome towards the surface of the Thames where they are rescued by Nemo's submersible.
		The professor plans to use the Cavorite for his own air Leviathan shaped like a huge bat and destroy the district of Limehouse...
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A873849 (2344 words)

	First Men in the Moon
		The eccentric (and annoyingly repetitive) inventor of Cavorite, a metallic paste that halts the effects of gravity!
		Once Arnold finds out, he's exasperated and quickly heads over to Cavor's home, where he gets a firsthand look at the professor's monumental creation: "Cavorite." The material is a molten metal that, when dried, eliminates the pull of gravity on whatever it's coating.
		While Cavor was having his chat with the Selenite overlord, Arnold managed to put most of the craft back together, but for some reason the shutters on it aren't working.
	www.geocities.com /jrgdawg/breviews/first_men_in_the_moon.html (2015 words)

	The Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bedford is informed of Cavor's invention of a gravity defying substance which is named Cavorite.
		Cavor explains to Bedford his intention to use Cavorite to explore the heavens.
		Cavor and Bedford commence the coating of the Sphere with Cavorite.
	members.aol.com /JCooper652/Histories/1801.html (453 words)

	jarehart: older
		Sources: U.S. terror threat level to be raised to orange for mass transit network in wake of London bombings.
		but cautionary graphics about how if you rip it off fast, it will pull your eyeballs out of their sockets
		screw terrorism, pictures this good of jumping cats should be frontpage on CNN
	www.clarkk.net /older.shtml?1 (959 words)

	Cavorite - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		Use this board to engage in collaborative discussion and debate on a broad range of conspiracy, extraterrestrial, secret project, government agency, and other alternative topics.
		'Cavorite' is a fictional term made up by HG Wells for his novel 'First Men in the Moon.'
		Though the notion of Cavorite is important because it represents the first time a fictional story ever thought about the notion of using anti-gravity for space travel (most books at the time used artillery shells), it has to be clear that it is an entirely fictional form of matter.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread142890/pglastpost (934 words)

	Book-Derived Hero System Character Adaptions - Mr. Cavor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cavor is an eccentric scientist who lives in the Lympne region of Kent, where he conducts research into all sorts of scientific phenomena.
		October 14, 1899 saw the creation of his most important discovery -- Cavorite, a metal alloy that is "opaque" to gravity in the same way that smoked glass is opaque to light.
		I didn't bother to write up the Cavorite Sphere as it seems far more a "plot device" than anything and Cavorite is such a Rubber Science development that giving it stats is pointless.
	surbrook.devermore.net /adaptionsbook/hgwells/cavor.html (418 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The First Men in the Moon (Millennium SF Masterworks S): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon, where they encounter the extraordinary underground world of the Selenites, insect-like aliens living in a rigidly organised hive society.
		The serendipitous discovery of Cavorite results in the scientist's home being destroyed and the surrounding countryside buffeted and damaged by powerful winds.
		With the discovery now made, Cavor embarks on a monumental quest to reach the moon by creating a huge sphere--a coating of Cavorite provides the means of locomotion, and a complex system of blinds serves as the means for controlling the thing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857987462 (1407 words)

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