Hi Chris,I will ask her, if you are on Facebook you can also see her posts and contact her, she's quite friendly. The negative streams are interesting, very hard to isolate in the air....so to study them in front of your nose you must induce them as surface charges, normally by placing glass with a sheet of regular paper on top to see them in the dark. In the air they show up very occassionally, but normally are accompanied by positive discharges from the surrounding air. Its interesting...the positive dart out as Bert pointed out into oblivion, trunks 1/2" thick sometimes and visible to 12" or more (and felt still 16" or more away) yet they never seem to have any terminations. The negatives, which form at the brush tips or right at the ball, are tyically ending ironically (or not? Bert?) in positive discharges (they appear in series as it were). In the case you see just the negative the moment you approach it a positive forms at your finger or at the end of the negative...so you can see them but not really interact with them. The positive you can walk into, play with, as Bert says they as poor conductors (Glad you said that) because like a cat they sometimes come to you and other times simply ignore any attempt of interaction. Put another way sometimes they bite and other times they ignore you!To show the polarity a simple device called a Rühmer's Ondoscope or Oscilloscope tube ia used (an X-Ray gadget, not the wave form CRT).In Tesla's london lecture he describes phantom streams as perpendicular lines darting out a foot or more phantomlike into space. Mostly seen with cylindrical coils, these straight lines turn into distinct positive forked fractals when fine tuned... But are positive always. The branches sometimes cross on the same discharge and where they do the color is reinforced brighter, as if they were layers of colored film. But an abundance of positive fractals all with separate trunks can overlap in the air without a distincion of brightness on crossovers. Quite curious. The negative when approached can cause a peculiar ionisation of the air with bright spots floating around and rod like discharges. I have no idea why but its a consistent thing and I havent been able to measure a clear polarity of them. The plumes like on Kinraides booklet "The Jackson Coil" which look like long feathers can be seen a few inches long in the air, often strangely arcing in curved patterns along the same plane. Occasionally a very thin straight line in the form of an actual spark, not jagged but sharp and curving shoots out terminating into a negative fan like shape, like a fish tail or an artists fan brush.
Frank Jones and I will be visiting Kelly in October so probably can capture some of the other events then...Sent via the Samng GALAXY S® 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
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