This is not very new news. To any motion to which a wave can be associated there can be a combination of incoming and outgoing waves. In science the incoming waves are cancelled with the motive that there aren't any sources to supply this incoming wave. If the bee can not produce enough energy to cause an outgoing wave or outgoing energy it simply creates a motion which allows incoming waves and thus incoming energy.
I learnt this very recently in a course in fluid mechanics. See Brekhovskikh, Goncharov: Mechanics of Continua and Wave Dynamics, equation 12.5. It is actually a wave term which occurs in electrodynamics and signal processing as well and in those subjects it is also too often ignored. In some cases the effect of incoming waves and energy is wanted. I think of electrical energy extraction from sea waves. This idea is not very different from extracting energy from the ZPE which is like an electrodynamic sea of a lot of waves of different frequencies and directions. So the challenge for anyone investigating this is to look from which energy the bee is receiving. Another observation I can add is that some smaller flying insects the size of mosquitoes like to stand still in the air for longer periods of time but only in certain vertical air pillars regularly spaced apart. Be attentive and look carefully and you will observe this yourself. I conclude from here that the energy these insects are using exists in these pillars. This pillars might coincide with Curry, Hartman or Leylines. I have also heard from Preston Nichols that radio reception is disturbed in these pillars. David On 11/30/05, Rick Monteverde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Conceptually that means more stuff to push off of. <???> > > These kinds of wings create vortices of air which feature increased mass and > resistance to downward/rearward movement than a similar surface would > encounter while slicing through the medium in a more laminar mode. Probably > get increased stability too. >
