Re: [Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-24 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:36:57 +0200, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the low current phenomenon, it occurs to me that a sufficiently low current ion stream, where the ions would form a clearly discrete dotted line rather than a continuous-looking stream, would not expand

Re: [Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jun 23, 2007, at 10:30 PM, William Beaty wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:36:57 +0200, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the low current phenomenon, it occurs to me that a sufficiently low current ion stream, where the ions would form a clearly discrete dotted line rather

Re: [Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-24 Thread Horace Heffner
- | | V Emitter | P _ Plate | | T1 | | | | -o-R1---G---R2-o- | | | o o o V1 G V2 Fig. 1 - Circuit diagram for drop/thread detection The emitter and plate can

Re: [Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-24 Thread William Beaty
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Horace Heffner wrote: How quickly memory fades: When I used a soda straw and blew upon a thread with all my might, the dot in the mist only moved a little... Not at all like smoke, they are more like carbon-fiber spiderwebs under high linear tension... And now I

Re: [Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jun 24, 2007, at 3:49 PM, William Beaty wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Horace Heffner wrote: How quickly memory fades: When I used a soda straw and blew upon a thread with all my might, the dot in the mist only moved a little... Not at all like smoke, they are more like carbon-fiber

[Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-12 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
Forwarded to Vortex on behalf of Michel who seems unable to get through. -- On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:36:57 +0200, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Goose bumps at the

Re: [Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-11 Thread William Beaty
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Michel Jullian wrote: Bill, A friend just sent me this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBxCnHU8Ao Beautiful video. The bumps at the beginning (threshold field presumably) may be relevant to your airthreads phenomenon. Such bumps are known to arise with distilled

[Vo]:Goose bumps at the surface of a polarized liquid submitted to a field

2007-06-10 Thread Michel Jullian
Bill, A friend just sent me this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBxCnHU8Ao Beautiful video. The bumps at the beginning (threshold field presumably) may be relevant to your airthreads phenomenon. Here the field is magnetic rather than electric and the fluid is magnetically polarized