Am 04.12.2011 05:07, schrieb Horace Heffner:
That is because Bill did not call them "water thread" experiments. My
mistake, and bad memory. The above wasser.html reference was indeed
about water bridge experiments, not Bill Beaty's air thread
experiments, which are a very different thing - thread lengths up to
60 cm.
Thank you for confirmation.
Yes, it is miraculous that these threads are so sharply focussed.
"Air Ions" behave strangely, this was known before. I think they follow
the electrical lines of field, but because they are charged, they also
distort the field. It should be expected they repell and distribute, but
they dont.
Possibly they follow only the strongest maximum in the field, this might
explain it partially.
Now, an electron beam also does not diffuse, physics is often
counterintuitive.
I have often made the experince, that 50 cm away from a charged
electrode, I can suddenly feel a cool flow and smell ozone.
With these air threads this is easily explained. I also by accident
pointed with a charged needle on an microamperemeter from 50 cm distance.
Suddenly the meter displayed a current and this current was there
without cables connected.
It was a conventional analog meter and had a plastic glass (plexiglass)
at the front. It turned out, that this plexiglass was permanently
charged. The charges where embedded into the plastic and it was
impossible to remove them. Finally I removed the glass and washed it a
minute under warm water. Then they went away.
There are also reports that air ions can charge an isolated object
meters away.
Air ions are not necessarily identical with those ions, that we have in
modern physics. It is a historical name, "Ion" is the greek name for
"wanderer". The name existed more than hundred years ago, when the
modern concept of "Ion" was unknown.
"Air Ions" are simply charged amounts of air and this can be charged
molecules or clusters of molecules or whatever. The precise structure is
unknown, because the lifetime is only some minutes.
Biophysicists and architectural physicists and weather physicists know
more about them than chemists or particle physicists.
They are important for climate and there are measurement instruments for
them.
Here is a company that makes this instruments and they have a very good
article about natural air ions:
http://www.trifield.com/content/about-air-ions/
For example these ions can exist in a positive negative-mixture without
discharging and this can be measured.
They behave very strangely and miraculous. I believe there is a lot of
fluid dynamic effects involved and in fluid dynamic, which is a multi
body problem, there are often effects observed that are counter intuitive.
best regards, Peter
