Kyle Mcallister wrote:
Is there anything else to the story that isn't written there? Anything
else that John might have said?
Nothing I recall. I think it was all public on vortex/freenrg and on
Usenet at the time I was posting those emails in the article: Aug 2001
But I'm wondering if John Schnurer told you anything else that might be
of help on this thing?
Nope. I did repeatedly see the same "six legged" inch-thick purple fuzzy
discharge that Podkletnov's paper reported (hey, where is that paper?
Deleted off arxive?) This discharge is a single straight leg a few inches
long, connected at its tip to five legs which radiate out at perhaps
90deg, then curve around to follow the original direction of the single
straight leg. It's about 1.5ft long, very dim, and makes a "thump" or
"pop" sound rather than the usual loud "snap." Podkletnov thought it was
five discharges which magically curve together to unite and launch a
single discharge from their union. But sparks don't work like that, and I
assume that he'd got the propagation direction wrong: it's one spark
which branches at the half-way point. I bet Podkletnov's polarity was
the reverse of mine, so he didn't realize that the single leg was the
starting point of the propagating spark. Crude diagram:
foil/cardboard
grounded plate
|
|
|_____ ___---___
|____ \ / \ VDG SPHERE
| \\ _______ | |
| ||_______| |
|______// | |
|______/ \___ ___/
| ---
| thump! | |
| | |
| | |
| |
| |
Let me also ask you this...do you think there is some difference
inherent in Morton's having used a VdG, and me using a solid-state DC
supply? I don't think so...but...maybe I am missing something?
It's all about nanosecond and picosecond EM dynamics like Blumlein stuff.
So as long as the main capacitance is from a large metal sphere, and
you're charging it through a few thousand megohms, there should be no
difference.
The sphere-voltage should collapse in a wave which starts at the location
of the spark and propagates toroidally around the sphere. The spark is
probably "cold" and quenches in nanoseconds. When using a DC supply you'd
want to include a large-value HV series resistor so that any capacitance
in the DC supply cannot supply a large current which would make the spark
become "hot" and persist mSec longer than a VDG spark would persist. Since
VDGs run at 10uA to 100uA, a 100KV supply would need a (10^5/10^4)ohms =
1G ohms high-volt resistor-chain in series (or perhaps even 10G if
possible.) Lots of 100meg quarter watt resistors, embedded in silicone?
But that's just to replicate the original. Perhaps a large external
capacitor would make the effect stronger than with a pure VDG? On the
other hand, the shaped EM wave might be a critical feature, and any
external connections to the large metal sphere would create very large
nonuniformities in the field shape. Hmmm, maybe Morton was using a
*perfectly* spherical VDG terminal, rather than an oblate spun- metal
terminal like mine (bought from Science First Inc.)
If we imagine that a "luminiferous Aether" exists which doesn't interact
with charges, or with moving charges, but DOES interact with accelerated
charges (and so would probably be the origin of inertia and gravity,) then
the shape and speed of collapsing e-fields between a sphere and a plate
might be critical in producing anomalies. For example, maybe the flat
plate needs to be a certain size, is better circular rather than square,
works better if very large, etc. Maybe the VDG terminal dia. must be
large in relation to its rubber belt hole dia. Maybe it needs to be
spherical rather than oblate. Maybe the glass tube needs to be a certain
dia., or needs to be off-center as shown in the Morton drawings?
OR ...maybe a charged smoke-ring has just the right pattern of accelerated
charges which would produce Aether-drag, and produce gravity/inertial
anomalies. I mean: an actual "smoke ring" ring-vortex of wind that moves
in a straight line at M/S velocity, but is filled with ions and surrounded
by a strong DC e-field. If "Aether" interacts with accelerated charges,
then all the odd effects would appear if Morton's setup managed to
unknowingly produce highly-charged smoke rings. As I implied in my
writeup, perhaps Morton was just creating charge-carrying smoke rings (and
I assumed at the time that the effects must be conventional.) But maybe a
charge-carrying smoke ring hides some very weird things ...such as a
ring-shaped aether clump which continues moving even when the charged-air
smoke-ring impacts some cardboard.
Now that I say this, perhaps it could have some connection to the reported
"Invisible Wall" where a huge area of charged plastic film was moving in
an arch-shaped path at 10MPH. A-HAHAHAHAHA HAAAA it all make perfect
sense now! It's an entire crackpot science: Paul LaViolette aircraft
which manipulate gravity by accelerating a large volume of charged air?
Beams of charged smoke rings used as weapons to defeat the 1946 Allied
fleet a Antarctica! Tesla/Marconi high voltage UFOs from the hidden
underground city in the Andes!
:)
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