At 12:24 pm 22/07/2005 -0700, wrote:
>It is a very compelling theory Frank, but I don't
>think it works out.
>
Spurred on by Merlyn, the "Magickal Engineer and
Technical Metaphysicist", who by his own appelation
has obviously the right approach to the way out
thinking required for a conceptual revolution,
I am encouraged to attack the problem from all
angels - oops, from all angles - but maybe I was
right the first time, eh! 8-)
Now it may be that we have two perfectly good
Beta and Gamma atmospheres already in the electric
and magnetic "atmospheres" sometimes known as
fields. ;-)
>From an kitchen table phenomena point of view it
is evident that magnetic phenomena are vastly more
powerful than electric phenomena and so we can
provisionally identify the Beta-atmosphere as the
electric atmosphere and the Gamma-atmosphere as the
magnetic atmosphere.
So just to get a feel for things
Say, Alpha-atmospheric pressure = 15 psi
Beta-atmospheric pressure = 150,000 psi
Gamma-atmospheric pressure = 1,500,000,000 psi
I am not of course suggesting that these are the
actual figure. They are just there to give one's
imagination something to chew on.
Now let's say that the repulsive force between like
charges is a force which emanates from the electric
pressure of those charges. It it an electric force,
a Beta-atmosphere force. Its magnitude is dependent
on the arithmetic difference between the charge
pressure and the ambient field pressure. We can think
of this as the electric strain energy.
A negative charge is at a higher pressure than the
ambient electric atmosphere pressure and therefore
has positive strain energy.
A positive charge is at lower pressure than the
ambient electric atmosphere pressure and therefor
has negative strain energy.
Now lowering the ambient electric pressure as one
does when entering into the tension phase of a material
leads to an increase in the difference between the
negative charge pressure and the field pressure.
Conversely lowering the ambient electric pressure
leads to a decrease in the difference between the
positive charge pressure and the field pressure.
So negative charges become more repulsive and
positive charges become less repulsive.
Let's invent some figures.
Initially, Negative charge pressure = 160,000 psi
Ambient B-a pressure = 150,000 psi
Positive charge pressure = 140,000 psi
whence,
Negative charge strain = +10,000 psi
Positive charge strain = -10,000 psi
Say that as one enters the material the Ambient
B-a pressure drops to 143,000 psi, say.
So now, Negative charge strain = +17,000 psi
Positive charge strain = - 3,000 psi
The arithmetic value of the charge strain is the
measure of the repulsive force between like charges.
Now the "attractive" force between unlike charges is
not a property of the charge but a property of the
surrounding field the magnetic atmosphere, the G-a
in just the same way as the "attractive" force of a
vacuum cleaner is not a property of the cleaner but a
property of the air, the Alpha-atmosphere.
The cleaner doesn't suck, the atmosphere blows.
Any change in the electric atmosphere pressure has
a negligible effect on the magnetic atmosphere pressure
and so the attractive force between unlike charges is
not affected.
It would seem that the electric field pressures must
be something like the difference between two much
larger magnetic field pressures. Remember, above ambient
a below ambient pressure are asymmetrical in terms of
energy.
The difference between strain, e, and strain energy
e^2 must come into it somewhere but I'm not at a point
where I can see quite how - not yet. 8-)
Cheers
Frank Grimer
