Word of the day - thixotropy Thixotropy is the property of some kinds of thick (usually) mud-like fluids - which will show a marked decrease in viscosity under shear stress. A normal gel, mud, gunk or clay can end up acting like a super-lubricant in the extreme case.
Is thixotropy also a property (real or metaphoric) of the aether - which serves to regulate the laws of thermodynamics to some degree? After all - in some of the better aether hypotheses, the aether is said to be very "thick" stuff - at least in another dimension, yet it does not affect our motion in 3-space very much- yet OTOH - it does give a twisted justification for "inertia" to some degree. All of these factors: thixotropy, the aether, inertia, and the laws of thermodynamics may be tied together at an intrinsic level. Maybe this is already a part of someone's theory, and if so, I hope it will be mentioned and credited to the proper source . The most often mentioned natural examples of thixotropy are so-called "quicksand" and other clays, like the ones under parts of San Francisco which exhibit characteristics of "liquefaction" during an earthquake. Drilling muds used in the oil industry can be thixotropic. Honey can also exhibit this property under certain conditions. Anyway, it has occurred to me recently that the reason that the Laws of Thermodynamics work so diabolically well, particularly with regard to magnetic motors (which are so difficult to make self-powering)-- is that these laws may be "enforced" by a reversible kind of thixotropy. The reversible thixotropy could be an inherent property of the aether... especially if/when that decrease in viscosity under shear becomes pushed to a limit such that it reverses and actually becomes a self-regulating increases in viscosity. IOW under extreme conditions (such as when a process becomes "too" efficient) the aether thixotropy reverses itself. This makes it a "proactive" element in keeping the LoT sacrosanct. This seems to be putting a certain amount of "feedback and discretion," or intelligence, into the laws of thermodynamics, and that can sound too anthropomorphic - but so be it. It is certainly "diabolical" the way nature seems to step-in and keep devices from performing as the software models say that they should at higher speed, when based on real results at lower speed. i.e. "power" is (or should be) a ~6:1 factor increase with increasing rpm: Power = torque x 2pi x rpm (rotational speed) But this is not always the case, based on extending the results of what is transpiring at a lower speed. IOW - a magnet-motor (magmo) like that of Howard Johnson - may from time to time give glimpses and short-term evidence of true overunity, and that is why they are so appealing. But this claimed OU has not been replicated in public thus far - and perhaps that is due to the aether's self-regulating mechanism. This then would be the aether add-on hypothesis - the case where the thixotropy of the aether reverses itself - to "prevent" overunity, as it were. Jones
