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Hiya Sheb and fellow
Andy, Virtual Big Bruvva chap;
No, I haven't made the "dream
machine". It would take a huge budget and very
precise engineering and experimental development - way outside my meagre resources.
Before that could happen anyway, it would be necessary for somebody (just anybody!)
to grasp the underlying principle of the hypothetical concept ~ for that is
all it is ~ and enter into a meaningful discussion of the theory and hopefully
then on into the mechanical details.
To date nobody has got past the
combination of disciplines required in order hold it together in their head.
Particle physicists tend not to be around music strings much (or be prepared
to see or consider any relevance) and sonoluminescence "experts" all seem to
insist that sonoluminescence must be done in a spherical container
(at the same time telling the world at large that it's all a complete mystery
and will probably ever remain so). Then there is the big and very real obstacle
of my complete lack of official qualifications to discuss matters sub-atomic
or quantum (about which I freely confess to knowing next to nothing and genuinely
feel that I don't need to) and generally anything beyond first year Lego
studies... Don't mention, of course, that there is also the tiny problem
of the >75% (or so ~) missing Universal cosmic matter...
Early this year I did quite a
bit of test-rig experimentation with a couple of small lengths of hand-made
carbon fiber (note spelling) cored music string without
positive result...
having spent many fruitless months
just trying to get my hands on some un-sized (i.e., non glue-coated) carbon
fibre in the first place (English spelling yields virtually
no search results). Dohhhhh... communication!!!!!!
Eventually a very kind lady dealer
in such fibers in the USA arranged for me
to get a sample few metres of 48,000 multi-filament tow by asking a manufacturer
to pull some off mid-way through the production process during downtime for
service (my suggestion). There was so much paperwork involved (US export laws)
that half of the rain forest was sadly depleted in the correspondence. An engineer
chum made a stretching frame and I made some collets and the lengths of wound
string (fun in itself). I wanted to bombard the stretched-tight (& water-filled)
string with sound to see if I could generate light out of the cut ends - even
a teeny weeny flash would have been solid evidence
that I could actually show relevant scientists instead of just burbling on without
any credibility at all.
On the CD ROM these very crude
experiments are described in the page ~ introduction.htm
( ~ and having just had to search for it myself, I can see how inaccessible
that page is ! )
I had to abandon the experiments
(which I don't think, in retrospect, stood much chance of demonstrating anything
but my naivety and, perhaps poverty!) when the strings I had made got damaged
by the abuse of constant re-fitting. I've been so caught up in the concrete
stuff (and a couple of guitar re-builds) all summer that I've neglected the
management of my site so, combined with my disappointment at the failure of
the experiments and a complete computer system (hard drive)
crash in the summer, circumstances led to the partial chaos you see
before you...
But, after abandoning these first
practical experiments and realizing that my site was getting in a bit of a mess,
I decided to leave it all up and alive but to add a new set of précis pages
for a round-up of the basic principles / groundwork, beginning with:~ starchild0.htm .
Briefly, mostly all experimental
demonstration of sonoluminescence apparently involves the generation of a sequence
of single-bubble events; to date, nobody has produced even two such sequences
of events in the same container, side by side and perfectly synchronized
on purpose and under control. The distance between two such event sequences,
if such synchronization could be achieved, would provide a measurable and potentially
useful feed-back controlling frequency since this distance/length would represent
a new wavelength - and thus a new propagating frequency in it's own right. The special
case for sonoluminescence containment in a hollow (ducted) music string is that
it would be very easy to arrange for symmetrical arrangement of pressure
nodes (hence the design of the machine with rotor and coils).
I am saying that a music
string is the ideal format for such harmonic control and that millions (or
billions) of synchronous sonoluminescence
events, all arranged (chained) in a near-perfect straight line should
produce useable energy output, since for the first time there would be the possibility
of sonoluminescence interactivity.
Because this, to us, would
be (1):~ a completely new (and unpredictable) form of energy
and (2):~ possibly constitute a seriously cheap and powerful
weapon, I was obliged by virtue of the Laws of Treason to approach the MOD,
who needless to say thought me a total loony and crank. They (and several other
scientists) would not accept or even discuss
the basic premise, which I reckon goes like this:~
Any
single bubble collapse event, since it involves the generation of light by
its occurrence, must by definition involve a (very weak) electromagnetic
pulse.
Therefore if two such events
occur at precisely the same time, then in the direction described by the two
position / events, a wavelength is surely illustrated by the distance of their
separation irrespective of the inherent frequency of the bubble collapse sequence.
The
resultant (directional) E.M. pulsing might thus be crudely represented:~
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in these vectors:>>>>>>>
I'd be interested to know what you make
of this first premise, if anything, ya' both. If it's flawed, I'm still
waiting for an explanation of that flaw. If it's well-reasoned, then it has
the potential to lead to a new branch of physics entirely - and wouldn't that
be fun? I've bashed me brains out for years around this and can't find anything
anywhere to contradict it. Just seems like common sense to me but no-one will
discuss it.
How much energy? Folks do tell that if there was
a way (which there currently isn't) to capture the energy from sonoluminescence
using the experimental demonstration laboratory flask method popularly in use
today, then you'd need to cover the entire planet in such equipment to gain
enough energy to raise the temperature of a cup of coffee through one half of
one degree centigrade. So order the coffee early, I say.
Rock and roll... sounds like a groovy Xmas
cake or two. The Macromedia Seminar should be brain-stretching... glad I got
Dreamweaver 3; I'd be stumbling about without it.