Since we're talking low resonances, I've been trying to figure out how the uber-low resonances of planetary orbits would manifest electromagnetically.
Here are some very preliminary thoughts I've had about mechanisms - but mostly I want to create a radio that picks up on these things, and that would be e x t r e m e l y low frequency. Any ideas for receivers? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3mN_o8jCRy8N5sM7CXfQ1dUKqB9lC-xnuFOI0F0l5k/edit?tab=t.0 -OuroboroSlitherin Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, July 20th, 2025 at 2:00 AM, William Beaty <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, MSF wrote: > > > I'll bet William Beaty could figure it out. > > > If Tesla's stuff really worked, then the solution is trivial. First he > suppressed all fractal streamers from a huge Tesla coil. Then, running > at high wattage (and perhaps several megavolts,) he turned up the power > until he got a discharge. He said these were like rifle-shots. (It's > basically a megavolt spark-gap, which has very different physics than > kilovolt spark gaps. Relativistic electrons happen at above 500KV.) > > The radiative output of this instant bang-discharge would wrap around the > planet, and focus back on his big coil. (Basically it was a vertical VLF > antenna made of plasma.) During that short delay, the coil oscillations > were ramping up to max. The next discharge would be triggered by the > significan ambient fields, coming back from the earlier pulse. So the > next pulse would be triggered by the previous one, after a delay-line > time. > > That way the lightning-bolts would only happen at a multiple of 8Hz or > whatever. (11.8Hz?) > > Then, turn the power up, and any 16Hz overtones from the pulses (Fourier > transform of spikes has LOTS of overtones,) ...would make the coil go > bang-bang at twice the lowest Shumann frequency. And so on. With > sufficient input power, it could run at higher and higher harmonics, many > hundreds Hz, where the spikes stayed in synch with the Earth waveguide, > because the Earth waveguide is acting as the tank circuit of the overall > "oscillator." The huge sparks are the analogy for the transistor in a > Hartley oscillator. The Earth-waveguide delay becomes the RLC tank > circuit of an oscillator. But since it's a waveguide, not a > coil-capacitor, it can run at any one of higher modes ...multiples of the > fundamental 8Hz. There should be about a thousand different frequencies > available (8Hz to 8KHz.) > > Weird trivia: at colorado springs, the telescoping metal tower was sealed, > and hollow. One guy suspects that the airtight seal was used because > Tesla pumped it down to a vacuum, by heating it up with water inside, then > corking it off when the steam had driven out all the air. (That's a > paleolithic vacuum pump. Ancients with glassblowing could have made > vacuum tubes.) That gives maybe 2% of one atmosphere, the vapor pressure > of water at room temp. But the guy didn't know why Tesla did this. Put > megavolt/nanosecond spikes on an iron pipe, after pumping a vacuum inside? > Maybe there's some weird physics which nobody knows about, unless they've > worked with hundred-megavolt RF in the gigahertz regime. Which I expect > is basically nobody since 1899. > > > > > I just thought that while I was at it, I could "steal" some 60hz grid > > juice. Using an open solenoid, you can fine tune the frequency by moving > > an iron rod in and out. It worked pretty well. > > > Old brainstorm: a big neodyminum magnet, if wiggling in a vacuum chamber, > is essentially a lossless resonator, like a superconductor. Give it a > whack, and what's the decay-rate of the wiggle? Or if not lossless, then > incredibly high Q, thousands of times higher than an oscillating copper > coil. > > So, if we spin a neodymium magnet in a vacuum, drive it up to 3600RPM > ...will it keep going by itself? Any microwatts of ambient 60Hz field > should drive it as an AC synchronous motor. Shine 60Hz strobe-light on > it, so you can see it not slowing down. > > But instead we want a 60Hz dipole antenna. So make two of these, placed > five meters apart, to emulate an iron rod 5M long. No, ten. No, even > more! They'd act like a lossless ferrite rod many many meters long > ...wound with a 60Hz superconducting tank coil. > > The power company thinks we cannot do any harm with "power theft" as long > as we stay 100 ft away from a transmission line. Now give them a > one-tesla magnet, a few hundred feet long, with the fields synchronized so > as to be like a resonant transformer-secondary. (Pickup coils don't do > any harm unless they're RESONANT pickup coils. And even then, they're > harmless as long as the Q is only hundreds. What if effective Q is a > million times higher? What counter-voltage does it induce into the > nearby power line? That gives a hint to the wattage which can be stolen.) > > No, I'm not gonna try this. Let someone else get all the fame, and maybe > the jail time. > > Write an SF short story where the 60Hz grid was brought down by REALLY > EFFECTIVE resonant power theft, thousands of remote farms using > superconductor emulation based on fast-rotating neodymium slabs suspended > in little bitty vacuum chambers. O the humanity. > > > Regards, > > > > MSF > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
