On Dec 4, 2011, at 1:10 AM, Peter Heckert wrote:
Am 04.12.2011 05:07, schrieb Horace Heffner:
That is because Bill did not call them "water thread" experiments.
My mistake, and bad memory. The above wasser.html reference was
indeed about water bridge experiments, not Bill Beaty's air thread
experiments, which are a very different thing - thread lengths up
to 60 cm.
Thank you for confirmation.
Yes, it is miraculous that these threads are so sharply focussed.
"Air Ions" behave strangely, this was known before. I think they
follow the electrical lines of field, but because they are charged,
they also distort the field. It should be expected they repell and
distribute, but they dont.
Possibly they follow only the strongest maximum in the field, this
might explain it partially.
I think this "follow the field line" explanation is totally wrong of
course. See my calculation here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg20519.html
Also, note that the beam maintains its integrity even after passing
through a grounded ring above a grounded witness pan, i.e. where
there are no field lines.
Now, an electron beam also does not diffuse, physics is often
counterintuitive.
An electron beam moves at the speed of light. The "air thread" moves
at about 10 miles per hour, 4.5 m/s. There is an extreme difference
in the time lateral forces have to act.
I am familiar with air ions. The phenomenon measured by Bill Beaty
in the presence of much water vapor, and having nano-amp current, I
think is not made of non-polarized air molecules, but of a contiguous
string of polarized molecules. Here is one way to tell:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg20467.html
Note: the water bridge lost stability in the presence of carbon
dioxide, due to ion conduction. Bill Beaty's air bridge worked
better in the presence of carbon dioxide. I think this is because it
is the structure of the thread that permits proton conduction, and
the CO2 molecule works just as well as an H2O molecule in that
structure for that purpose.
I have often made the experince, that 50 cm away from a charged
electrode, I can suddenly feel a cool flow and smell ozone.
With these air threads this is easily explained. I also by accident
pointed with a charged needle on an microamperemeter from 50 cm
distance.
Suddenly the meter displayed a current and this current was there
without cables connected.
It was a conventional analog meter and had a plastic glass
(plexiglass) at the front. It turned out, that this plexiglass was
permanently charged. The charges where embedded into the plastic
and it was impossible to remove them. Finally I removed the glass
and washed it a minute under warm water. Then they went away.
There are also reports that air ions can charge an isolated object
meters away.
Air ions are not necessarily identical with those ions, that we
have in modern physics. It is a historical name, "Ion" is the greek
name for "wanderer". The name existed more than hundred years ago,
when the modern concept of "Ion" was unknown.
"Air Ions" are simply charged amounts of air and this can be
charged molecules or clusters of molecules or whatever. The precise
structure is unknown, because the lifetime is only some minutes.
Biophysicists and architectural physicists and weather physicists
know more about them than chemists or particle physicists.
They are important for climate and there are measurement
instruments for them.
Here is a company that makes this instruments and they have a very
good article about natural air ions:
http://www.trifield.com/content/about-air-ions/
For example these ions can exist in a positive negative-mixture
without discharging and this can be measured.
They behave very strangely and miraculous. I believe there is a lot
of fluid dynamic effects involved and in fluid dynamic, which is a
multi body problem, there are often effects observed that are
counter intuitive.
best regards, Peter
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
