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The author, Miles Mathis, argues that recent reports about ballooning spiders using the Earth’s electric field for flight are a belated confirmation of his own charge field theories, presented in several papers prior to 2013. He claims that Peter Gorham resurrected an old 19th century prediction in 2013 that Mathis had already addressed. Mathis references his papers on lift (2012), pressure flow (2011), atmospheric pressure (2009), the Allais Effect (2008), and “The Moon Gives up a Secret” (2005) as evidence. He elaborates on his theories, explaining that water rises in plants due to the charge field (levitation), that the charge field speed is .0095m/s², acting opposite to gravity, and that it levitates the Earth’s atmosphere. He also asserts that airplanes fly due to charge lift, not unequal wind speeds.

Mathis claims that Gorham is incorrect in attributing spider flight solely to “static electricity.” Instead, Mathis posits that it’s “rising charge” that causes all levitation. He criticizes a The Atlantic article by Ed Yong, which explains the theories of Erica Morley and Daniel Robert, for misrepresenting the cause of spider flight. Mathis refutes the idea that the upper atmosphere is positive and the surface is negative, or that charge moves due to such potentials. He explains that ions (mostly electrons) are driven up by “real charge photons” and that the potential observed is due to more electrons being lifted.

The “photon wind” is caused by Earth’s charge recycling, where the Earth takes in charge photons from the Sun at its poles and re-emits them. Mathis states that everything, from electrons to galaxies, is a charge engine. He clarifies that spiders are ballooning on the charge field, which is the fundamental levitating force, and that electricity is ions while charge is photons.

Regarding the spider’s silk, Mathis argues it acts primarily as a sail to increase surface area and capture rising charge and ions. While the silk may pick up a negative charge, this is seen as slightly counterproductive, as the spider ideally wants electrons to bounce off it from below. The key, according to Mathis, is the spider and silk’s ability to resist vertical conduction, forcing the rising electrons to hit them. He predicts that spiders can manipulate molecules, similar to xylem, to create resistance to vertical conduction and horizontal conduction paths, thereby blocking the rising charge and creating levitation, akin to MU-metal on airplane wings.

Finally, Mathis mentions that his reader sent him this information because Getpocket republished the The Atlantic article, which he views as propaganda that is now backfiring.

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