"Jimmy, where's your camera? I want to get a picture of this!" That was Johnny.
Duchess just whined, and wagged her tail apologetically.
"Jim," I said, very softly, "Will you please stop messing around and get us down from here?"
"I unplugged it, Dad ... I don't know why you're still up there." He shook his head.
Johnny, bless his little heart, had what seemed to be a good idea; "Why not get hold of the wires and pull the plate out from under them?"
So Jim eased up to within about a foot of the plate, grabbed the wires and started pulling. I had no sensation at all. We just stuck there. Even with the plate out in the hall!
Jim stood for a moment in thought, then looked up at us and said, "Well, maybe it'll wear off in a little while, as you gradually discharge whatever kind of charge you got from the plate."
"What do you mean by 'charge'?" I asked.
"Well, not knowing what kind of field I generated with that plate, I couldn't tell you offhand, but it is probably something like this; you see, apparently what I did was not cut gravity off exactly, but changed the normal electrical charge in whatever object came into the field. Seems to me if I had cut gravity with the plate, you would have fallen when I turned it off. As it is, you're still there," he added rather unnecessarily.