The following two images show how a cricket ball interacts with the
alpha-atmosphere to give lift with back spin and depression with forward spin.
An analogous situation occurs with the offset gyro.
A slight push in the forward direction causing the gyro to increase its
orbital speed leads to to the gyro rearing up
Conversely a slight impedance in the reverse direction causing the gyro to
decrease its forward speed leads to the gyro cowering down (that is the best
antonym I can manage for "rearing up").
I could see that this behaviour must result from the gyro interacting with
the beta-atmosphere since, clearly it can't be the result of reaction with the
alpha-atmosphere.
I thought about this for a long time and eventually I saw the answer.
Just as I had come to an understanding of the behaviour of materials by
turning things inside out I had to turn this conundrum inside out also.
In the cricket case the the ball is far more rigid than the α-atmosphere
but in the case of the offset gyro the material of the gyro is far less rigid than
that of the β-atmosphere.
This is shown by the much greater speed of the predominant communication
in the β-atmosphere (light) as compared
with the speed of predominant of communication in the cricket ball (sound).
So the gyro is getting its lift from the equivalent magnus effect of the
gyro/β-atmosphere interaction.
Now I'm perfectly well aware that all sounds crazy but as Neils Bohr might have put it:
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.
The question that divides us is whether it is crazy
enough to have a chance of being correct." 😁