It was
explained that the weight was lost due to a screening effect
which the mercury produced on the lead balls. In other words,
mercury acts as a sort of insulator against the earth's
gravitational waves. For gravitation certainly is propagated
the same as other forms of energy, i.e., in wave form. Prof. T.
J. See, famous investigator of Mare Island, California, in an
address before the California Academy of Sciences, announced
recently that his researches on gravitation in 1917 and his
latest researches on molecular forces confirmed Maiorana's claim
that the screening of gravitation has been shown to exist. In
1917, says Professor See, 'I explained the fluctuation of the
Moon's main motion by the circular refraction of the sun's
gravitation waves, as they are propagated through the solid body
of our earth at the time of lunar eclipses.'
" 'I found also from dealings with capillary forces that
quicksilver is indeed very resistant to the waves which produce
molecular action, and this developed a new theory of the
depression of the mercury in capillary tubes. This would tend
to confirm Maiorana's claim that a basin of mercury beneath a
suspended mass of lead may decrease the gravitation of the lead
by a small amount.
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