[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a specific experiment that the late E.V. Gray performed that is
fascinating -->
Quote,
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In the workshop, a 6-volt car battery rested on a table. Lead wires ran
from the battery to a series of capacitors which are the key to Gray's
discovery. The complete system was wired to two electromagnets, each
weighing a pound and a quarter.
The first demonstration proved that Gray was using a totally different
form of electrical current --- a powerful but "cold" form of the energy.
As the test started, Gray said: "Now if you tried to charge those two
magnets with juice from the battery and make them do what I'm going to
make them do, you would drain the battery in 30 minutes and the magnets
would get extremely hot."
Fritz Lens activated the battery.
But what does this mean? "Activated" it in what sense? I don't
understand how the word "activated" is being used here.
A voltmeter indicated 3,000 volts.
3,000 volts across _what_? If the battery had just that moment been
connected to the magnets, as the phrase "...activated the battery" might
seem to imply, then this makes no sense -- where's the "3,000 volts"
coming from? When you first connect a battery across an electromagnet,
assuming you use short hookup wires, you usually see the voltage ramp up
to the battery voltage, nothing more (if there's arcing and/or contact
bounce when the switch closes it may produce more interesting results,
of course).
And when you /disconnect/ it you get wild transients that an analog
voltmeter (with a physical needle) typically can't display in any useful
fashion.
So, again, 3,000 volts across _what_?
Gray threw a switch and there was a loud popping noise.
If he disconnected the battery when it was connected to a
high-inductance coil, and didn't have a capacitor wired across the
switch, that would make sense. I'd expect some sparks, too, if he used
a knife switch.
The top magnet
flew off with a powerful force.
OK, I don't know the arrangement he used, but this sounds like something
you can reasonably do with clever placement of the magnets.
Richard Hackenberger caught it with his
bare hands.
So what? How long had the battery been connected for? A few seconds?
Then all parts of the system should have been pretty cool.
Or was it connected for 30 minutes? or what?
And, for that matter, was any current actually going through the part
which flew off?
What had happened was that gray had used a totally different form of
electrical current --- a "cold" form of energy.
I doubt that a lot.
The fact that
Hackenberger caught the magnet and was not burned was evidence enough of
that.
No, it's not -- by itself it's not evidence of anything. It's just a
very sloppy piece of low-grade calorimetry, with no control, no
calibration, and consequently no reason to expect any particular result.
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Does anyone know how to replicate this specific E.V. Gray experiment?
Personally I would disagree this is a new form of "cold" electricity. I
firmly believe the energy comes from the magnetic materials ambient
temperature.
Are there any photos of this experiment? What type of magnetic material
were the electromagnets made of? Was is merely capacitors discharging
across the electromagnets or was there a circuit? How were the
electromagnets situated?
Regards,
Paul Lowrance
