Re: Two Manifestations of Charge

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Dave,
         Although I haven't replicated your particular setup, for the
fun of it I once replicated a coil described by Tesla in his lecture
to the EE Society of NY (I think it was - I have the book at home).
The coil was a double-resonant disruptive type but had the secondary
wound in two sections (as described in the book) as "lumped"
inductors with a primary in between. I was particularly interested in
this coil because a photo of the original running with large wire
loops run in parallel, each connected to the hot end of each
secondary portion) showed a bundle of sparks of varying intensities
apparently all going at the same time along the length of the loops.
I have no reason to doubt that this was the only way to replicate the
phenomenon but built that particular coil just to see what Tesla
himself saw as I was fascinated by its appearance in the photo. Some
of the sparks were visibly brighter than others and some amounted to
no more than brush discharges but there appeared to be no particular
pattern as to which sparks were brighter than others apart from
variations in the proximity of the looped discharge wires relative to
each other which, as you'll appreciate, was difficult to get exact.

So yes, I have seen sparks of quite differing brightness _apparently_
occurring simultaneously (the entire space between the wires was lit
to some degree _per bang_. And just for the record, that was but one
of the coils I've built to one of Tesla's recipes. Despite my coiling
beginning in the early 80's perhaps I'm not an "old-timer" after all
;)

Malcolm


On 3 Jul 2005, at 22:54, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: David Thomson <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Gary,
>
>  > OK, I'll bite.  It the fact that you observed both thin
>  > purple and thick white sparks simultaneously, the sole basis
>  > for believing that they are uniquely different phenomenon,
>  > which requires a new version of quantum mechanics to explain?
>  >  Is not that streamer currents are different, resulting in
>  > differing plasma luminosity, sufficient?
>
> Let's forget the theory for the moment.  Let's focus on the fact
> of its existence.  Can you replicate this on your coils?
>
> There is no point in getting into theory just yet.  First, let's
> see if the phenomenon can be replicated by others.  Then when
> others have direct access to the event, perhaps we could narrow
> down the cause and quantify it.
>
>  > Why is a flat secondary central to your theory?
>
> That's a theory question.  Try it with a solenoid coil and a flat
> spiral coil.  We could have a "contest" to see how many different ways
> this phenomenon can be repeated.
>
> Dave
>
>
>