A week or two back I happened to pick up on a segment of discussion on Vortex that included the idea of long thin coils wound in helices wound in further orders of helicity. (sheesh is that a word?) It's taken me this long to yell back, but I did want to mention that after about 5 years of working on other assorted projects, Dr. Sam Faile has gotten back into building "topologically challenging" coils from both wire and dielectric materials. Some of you who kept track of Sam's more esoteric work over the years know of what I speak.
Quite a bit of the massive collection of knotted, sequenced, recursive, woven, and "ancient geometry" coils was lost in the June fire at Sam's former apartment, but he salvaged some, and luckily quite a few of his winding notes dried out from water damage. Enough to begin again. For those not aware of it, one of Sam's primary projects going back to the late 80s was based on a simple thought: could coils built with extreme topology and embodying the right mathematics produce anomalous effects when energized? (By virtue of any number of hypotheses) He started out with simple stuff, like Caduceus coils and knots, then built extended arrays with geometry that frankly I found confusing as hell. Quite a few of these I ran simple tests on back in the early 1990s, by passing AC, DC, or RF through. Looked for things like unusual heating, voltage rises, weight changes, and the more subjective as well - such as bio and psychointeractive effects. Some were really cool micro-inductive VHF and UHF pickups. Others did seem like they got extra hot with RF pumped through them. Milligram level weight changes may have occured but were inconclusive and speculative. I would swear that a couple of the designs made me barfingly sick when I put current through them and I was seated nearby. Thats totally my own subjective reality talking there. What Sam has been doing recently has been looking for biological effects on house plant bamboo from a couple of very large extended Caduceus arrays that embody the coil of a coil of a coil concept. I think he has either 4 or 5 levels of helicity. If any of you have a flavor for this sort of mad topological fun and are interested in getting specifics from Sam, he would love to hear from you. As always, he relies on telephone or written mail, and you can get both from the front page of the website: www.geocities.com/spfaile/ One little paper that is on the same website that shows some of the smaller of Sam's 10,000 coils is: http://www.geocities.com/spfaile/ArrayGrav.html If anyone does come across bamboo plants materializing in their parlor, then you can figure they just arrived via the 10th dimension from Cincinnati... NR __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
