"- in one paragraph
to see if I can understand it?... "
Any single bubble sonoluminescence collapse event,
since it involves the generation of light by its occurrence, must by definition
involve an electromagnetic pulse. Therefore if two such events occur at
precisely the same time, then in the direction (vector) described by the
said two position / events, a wavelength is surely illustrated by the distance
of their separation. ~
(not so recent mail to a friend who knew nothing of physics)
- something of a contradiction
in terms, my old son! Nevertheless - I'll have a go, though some form
of introduction is required, I think; hopefully I shall avoid trying to teach
my grandmother to suck eggs but "to begin at the beginning"... (Dylan Thomas)...
Right at the start of man's "understanding"
of the universe he inhabits, I mean at the point where we began to attribute
the effects and properties of nature to the fundamental building blocks, rather
than "spirits" or "gods" and got down to the nitty-gritty of matter, it was
discovered that water was composed of just two elements:
Hydrogen & Oxygen.
Soon it became apparent that there
was some kind of paradox involved; i.e.: -
"How come hydrogen burns
furiously in oxygen but water is notoriously difficult to set fire to?"
From that starting point, the main
goal (in simplistic terms) of particle physics has been to quantify the stuff
of the known universe, usually examined in vast (and horrendously
expensive) toroidal vacuum chambers, wherein particles are made to
collide, at speeds approaching and equaling that of light, in an effort to
understand just what it is that guides and controls the whole shooting match,
structure-wise (and there have been some clever bastards out there, no denying
that).
The prospect of getting water to
self-destruct, yielding virtually limitless free energy in the process, has
been the "philosopher's stone" of scientists since that understanding began.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) there
is a bug in the system. That bug is Quantum Physics, which deals, in the main,
with duality - and certainly symmetry. Absolutely nobody understands
Quantum, even though the simplest transistor depends entirely upon its action
for its operation. It is God's little (or huge) joke on mankind. Probably
the simplest demonstration of Quantum is the double-slit light-beam experiment:-
A light beam played upon a
slit in a wall barrier disperses into a spectrum and spreads, rather like
when it passes through a prism. Interference
patterns are caused by the path differences and demonstrate their presence
by dark / light lines on a projection screen. With modern technology, the
individual light "particles" or "packets" can be counted. The real problem
raises its ugly head when two slits are arranged side by side and the counting
begins again. It was discovered that light has to be considered as co-existing
in two (apparently incompatible) forms, i.e., as waves and
as particles.
Why? - Because the interference patterns
caused by the phase cancellation brought about by the path differences in
the light beam's distance traveled are replicated even when a single
photon is released, sequentially followed by another and then by another and
then another & so on... the same dark / light patterns
emerge over time.
So it appears
that either matter "knows about itself" and "what its destiny is" or it exists
in two places at the same time simultaneously; or both; and
nobody is really sure.
And all this time, we depend entirely
upon Quantum for the operation of all of the digital equipment we use in our
daily lives, without having the slightest idea why it works.
Then there is the problem of gravity, about which we know
practically nothing, except for the effect that it has.
As hard and as long as Physicists
study the nature of matter, there appears to be no limit to the detail that
"God" has built into our universe. Every year that comes around, there
is a new statement regarding how close we (they) are to a complete understanding.
It's mainly about budget, I suspect; and the
justification thereof...
Then, early in the 20th century,
somebody noticed that under certain circumstances, if water
is bombarded with sound, in a controlled way, then tiny
flashes of light erupt, derived from microscopic bubbles
that expand as if from nowhere and then collapse.
The mechanism is far from being
understood but was given the name (derived from the Latin, I guess)
"sonoluminescence".
It was soon discovered that the energy in / energy
out dicrepancy in the sonoluminescence equation was vast and impossible
to explain and equally impossible to benefit from, i.e., capture and put
to work.
Much study was given to the subject; you
can read extensively about it on the internet. Search engines will deliver
a long list of sites. There
was even a sci-fi film ("Chain Reaction") made about sonoluminescence but,
as is normally the case with sci-fi, they got the entire thing out
of context and proportion and merely added negative credibility to the subject.
The credibility issue is important
here. The search for controlled fusion is a knife-edged business. World economy
depends upon fossil fuels and the drugs trade. To suggest that one has
found the answer to controlled fusion is a standpoint fraught with all sorts
of dangers. Most respectable scientists won't go anywhere near there, even
if they suspect that there could be a clue of truth in the source material.
There really is no alternative answer
to exactly what it is that brings about the vast imbalance of energy
in / energy out in the sonoluminescence equation, other than that fusion,
albeit on a microscopic level, is involved. If one had truly found a way to
produce virtually unlimited energy from just water (and a little vibration),
compounded by the fact that one had no scientific credentials
of any sort, who would want to listen? Therein lies the problem. I thought
it best to publish and be damned. If I'm wrong, we can have a laugh about
it. If I'm right, then world economy in its present incarnation is at risk.
Well, it couldn't really be any less fair, could it?
The fact is that nobody
but a music string mechanic could have stumbled upon the hypothesis
which I propose; it simply would not occur to a "conventional" particle physicist.
They have to have their vacuum chambers and huge electromagnets
- I consider that approach as using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut. A
music string is probably the most efficient machine there can be. Twang it
and it goes on and on swinging back and forth; it has nothing else to do.
Depending upon the rig to which it is attached, that swing can be long-lived
or short lived. I made a very comfortable living for very many years out
of being intimate with what music strings "like" to enable them
to work well and "be happy". Ask Jeff Beck or Hank Marvin. I do know strings.
My first thoughts on a plausible
link between string mechanics and fusion were along the lines that it should
be possible to support a plasma string within a hollow music string and thus
be able to control the harmonic divisions by means of feedback. It wasn't
until in 2000 that I found out about the existence of sonoluminescence &
put two and two together realising that exactly the
rig I had designed to hopefully control plasma (a lost cause because of temperature,
among other reasons), would be perfect for containment and control of that
other beast: sonoluminescence.
The broader details aside, it
all begins with water and its extreme antipathy to carbon. It is possible
to make a music string with a multifilament core of carbon fibres, bound together
inside a wire winding: Here are some graphics from my site to help explain.
This is a small section og the string I would make:
it has a multifilament fibre core
>
<and a wire winding
If the string is immersed in boiling
water and allowed to cool, water vapour will condense into liquid water but
can't lie in contact with the carbon, so forms into strings.
(I can't prove this but it seems
the only likely result to me.)
A carbon fibre takes on a silvery
appearance when immersed in water, demonstrating the antipathy. To do a simple
experiment at home, coat a bronze coin in soot from a candle flame and dunk
into a glass of water. Look at a shallow angle across the surface of the submersed
and blackened coin in the direction of a light source. Mirror finish!
...
unable to wet the carbon fibre's
surfaces.
WARNING! You are approaching a part of this mail with
mild strobe effects!!!
If you are acquainted with the general
behaviour of string harmonics, you'll see that the environment described is
very likely to be ideal for the containment and control of sonoluminescence
bubble collapse events within the water strings.
It is accepted (and inevitable) that
the sonoluminescence light emission has to be due to a jump of state
for the enclosed gas molecules within the generated bubble as it converts
to a plasma, hence the photon emission. Thus any two (very importantly) synchronous sonoluminescence events
must represent a discrete wavelength of electromagnetic radiation: (in
the direction of the coincidencental synchronicity) :
Don't
stare too long at this animation.
You can get a feeling
for the forced symmetry imposed upon the string and its contents by placing
your mouse pointer between the letters 'o' & 'e' in the word 'echoes'
in the animation below.
Any two synchronous
sonoluminescence events represent a discrete wavelength.
<------
this distance represents a wavelength ------ >
but only if
there is perfect synchronicity
This machine defines
the symmetry required to control that synchronicity.
It's about nodes, antinodes
and above all, probability control.
and here comes that one paragraph
that you asked for:
"Any two synchronous S.L. bubble events that may occur will
define, by their symmetrical spacing, one analogue
precise new wavelength of electromagnetic
radiation with its own implied longitudinal frequency, which
passes to the coils, in turn becoming a reciprocal phase controlling force. An
'infinite squaring' function is thus applied to the feedback loop modulus
and potential node separation is immediately
limited only by fundamental particle spacing."
(The static mid-point
of that precise new wavelength
will be the central node of the music string).
For the first time ever,
we may observe the effects of interaction between S.L. events.
This wavelength is, however just one of the many frequencies which will be
generated by different synchronous pairs of SL events in this machine.
Also importantly, conditions for the probability of sonoluminescence will
always be identical symmetrically either side of the octave node of string
speaking length:
(To quote from my 'on
site' complete specification)
"Photon emission from any S.L. event will be absorbed laterally
by the black carbon fibres but at shallow angles of incidence longitudinally,
light will be conducted along each capillary axis by the water-strings' fibre
optic properties. The synchronous nature of such streamed photon emissions
will thus generate multiple and parallel lasers from the capillaries."
Quite simply, the water will burn. I think."Sparkspin"
© 1984
-which would be jolly handy in itself... small, portable tool...
cuts whacking great holes in things and runs on water (plus a bit of manual
vibration) and that ain't the end of it...
steve
By
the way, the animation above is a six-frame airbrushed sequence made in Painter 5.5
and
yes, I made a mess of the end bits (cartoon lasers).
But
it pulses not unpleasantly so I left it...
(there
are twice as many capillaries as there are fibres).
