On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, John Berry wrote: > Your analysis makes it tempting to try and build it, except that in air > there really is a displacement current due to polarizing the air. > A force would certainly be generated no doubt, but so would a stream of > moving air.
>From the Chris Tinsley era: anomalous thrust devices need not be tested in a vacuum chamber. Just put them in a big plastic bag! > view of the displacement current. > Instead of trying to cheat Newton by creating an open circuit, we should > be trying to use the vacuum as a propellant. (it would still be an open > circuit but the focus would be of applying force to the vacuum) Heh. It's much easier to think up this stuff than it is to test it! Rather than Aether thrusters... suppose we're living in a cloud of dark matter right now. How to apply a thrust? Maybe electromagnetically. One thing that I've never heard that anyone investigates: vacuum propulsion by fluid analogy to smoke-ring launchers! With smoke-ring launchers, the device uses an oscillating piston to draw in air from all directions, then periodically emit a high-speed "air glob" in just one direction. It can thrust itself along, even though the piston is pure AC. The "AC" waveform is spikes or a sawtooth. It's a DC pump that relies on nonlinear turbulence phenomena for its rectification: in some Reynolds Number regions, sucking is not the same as blowing. Our goal then becomes to find an antenna which, when given a strange AC waveform, will launch out "smoke rings" made of dark matter when pulsed in a certain way. Possible test: build a small copper tank that looks like an actual smoke-ring launcher (with a hole in one end,) then put a one-turn coil inside it and feed the coil with unipolar spikes: capacitor discharge with series resistance to create neutral damping. But maybe Dark Matter is neutral. In that case we'd want to add a strong e-field; perhaps charging the metal tank negative in order to attract positive-charged Dark Matter particles to the interior. Total rumor: Tesla bounced electromagnetic "smoke rings" off the moon, but found that their energy increased with distance travelled, and when they return to Earth (in Siberia) they knock down forests but without leaving any trace that a meteor caused the blast. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
