Instead of trying to understand gravity, I suggest we put the term to one side and instead, look at its effect, and the simple fact that a thing which has mass and is 'heavy', falls or drops, (due to the effect of gravity on it).
When the weights are pulled downwards by the attraction between the weight and the earth, that attraction is gravity. Gravity is the effect which appears to give 'weight' to objects of mass. The 'weight' or 'heaviness' of an object is what makes it fall.
Bessler said that "these weights are themselves the PM device, the ‘essential constituent parts’ which must of necessity continue to exercise their motive force (derived from the PM principle) indefinitely – so long as they keep away from the centre of gravity". It seems perfectly logical, therefore, to assume that the weights were supplying the energy which turned the wheel - something all perpetual motionists have instinctively known for hundreds of years. The movement of the weights was due to the effect of gravity.
According to wikipedia, "In physics, a force is any influence that causes an object to undergo a certain change, either concerning its movement, direction, or geometrical construction." Now you may have been told that gravity is not a force - but according to the above well-established principle.....it is! Anything that falls downwards due to an influence that causes an object to undergo a certain change, ...concerning its movement, direction, is a force!
Wikipedia continues, "In other words, a force is that which can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest).." If that doesn't describe the action of a weight being dropped from my hand then I don't know what does.
Anything which is moved by an external influence, (such as gravity), can have its resulting action modified by another influence. That 'other' influence can, under particular circumstances, also be attributed to gravity.
Bessler said his weights operated in pairs. So if a weight falls and in doing so, moves another weight, the second one can overbalance a wheel.
Bessler said his weights operated in pairs. So if a weight falls and in doing so, moves another weight, the second one can overbalance a wheel.
Again this is the principle I outlined at my website at www.besslerswheel.com
(The title is taken from my poem at www.free-energy.co.uk/html/my_poem.html )
(The title is taken from my poem at www.free-energy.co.uk/html/my_poem.html )
JC