On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Robin wrote:
...you might try an inter-library loan through you local university library?
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk <[email protected]>
Yep, that's how I intially read Shoulders "secret" book. He had
self-published a paperback with his notes and photos, then distributed
?fifty? copies privately to friends.
Then, when the military tried to "secrecy order" his first patents, he
avoided this by telling them that
the info was already widely distributed (but only in private, so the USPTO
wouldn't be able to reject his application because of prior public-domain
release.)
I find that the K. Shoulders claims don't make sense unless one first
realizes that Ken is claiming that small, needle-shaped sparks are not
sparks at all! Instead, a high-speed camera sees them as intensely bright
points, microscopic "stars" moving at high speed. Needle-shaped sparks
are not normal plasma streamers? Instead they are brilliant glowing
bullets? However, I find that the same electrode CAN produce the famaliar
fractal-shaped spark processes rather than needle-sparks. For example, a
classroom VandeGraaff machine produces several different types of
discharge, including branching tortuous "lightning" as well as the bright
non-fractal "needle-sparks." Ken Shoulders entire discovery is that the
familiar needle-sparks are not sparks; instead they are traveling
"micro-bullets" which can vaporize narrow tunnels in metal foils and
refractory materials, they take the form of a small torus of smaller
separate points, and can be guided by fabbed surface-structures on ceramic
wafers.
I wonder, if we first send a "needle spark" through a metal membrane, then
on the other side, accelerate it with e-field from a +200KVDC electrode,
how far will it travel in air? Also, do this with a TORUS electrode, to
see whether the "needle" passes through the zero-field donut-hole, rather
than behaving as a normal spark, and always taking a curved path so as to
leap between metal surfaces. Perhaps a cm-scale "EVO gun" is possible,
where apparent needle-sparks end their path on open air, wo/any second
electrode to halt the spark trajectory?
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