Am 04.12.2011 14:30, schrieb Horace Heffner:
Some relevant quotes of interest from Bill Beaty at:
http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/airexp.html
"The "threads" can survive in a zero-field region. I made a crude
"thread gun" and passed a thread through an accelerator ring composed
of an aluminum bundt pan. I didn't expect this to work, since the hole
in the pain is shielded and relatively field-free. Yet the thread did
come out the other side. Once I've set up a thread-emitter, I find
that I can cup my hands very closely around the path of the invisible
thread, yet this does not eliminate the furrow in the fog. Evidentally
the threads either have enough inertia to survive the zero-field
regions temporarily, and to traverse several inches of zero-field
space... or they need no fields at all once they have been created.
Their behavior is not simply that of ionized wind. They act WEIRD! "
If the thread is electrically conducting, like a high resistance wire,
it is never in a zero field region, because there is always a voltage
drop along the conductive thread.
The thread will carry its own field with it. Its impossible to surpress
the field.
Let's assume we have 1 m of thread length and 10 kV. This equals 100V
per centimeter and is enough to move air molecules.
In an air ion measuring instrument, the positive and negative air ions
are separated in a 60 V field and counted separately.
The thread will carry its own field with it.
It is reasonable to assume that a needle will inonize molecules that are
easy to ionize.
These are charged and repelled and form a conductive path in air that
has a current and a voltage drop along it.
This might be radioactive molecules or water molecules. The thread does
therefore not consist out of arbitrary air molecules but consists out of
a nonrepresentative collection of conductive molecules. Of course this
can be water molecules.
If true, this mechanism could be used to collect radioactive gases out
of the athmosspere.
Peter
