(Excerpt from Specification)

Method for priming the string with water: Immersion of the assembled mechanism (with pressure controls removed) into boiling water and allowing to cool whilst submerged. When priming is complete the chamber is emptied, admitting air. The pressure control mechanism (12,13,14,) is then reassembled, allowing for adjustments to the chamber pressure, and hence to the string tension (which is not required to be great). Pin 14 is for fine adjustment.

The whole system, when assembled, is extremely sensitive: any subtle speaking length vibration being converted into electrical energy by the piezos (9). Voltages thus transduce to fields in the (very low impedance) coils (16), extending the natural decay of the string vibration, or cancelling it, depending on the system resonance as set by string tension and the rotor inertia. At crucial settings the system is on the verge of feedback but 'conservation of energy' naturally denies that possibility.

Energy required to spin the rotor is vanishingly small, as is the probability that any rotor spoke ball-end will come to rest exactly centred adjacent to any of the stators' exponential grooves. In that event, a catastrophic scenario exists and rotation will commence, stimulated by the string bowing action and the through-fields from the coils, according to the summation of the left-hand rule of electrodynamics within the system.

Seeding energy for initial rotation may come from manual stimulation. This is achieved by use of a rattling mechanism (23,24) or, conversely, by any externally applied electromagnetic alternating field from a separate power supply. In air, human vocal drone power will also serve this purpose. Providing a suitable resonance is adjusted for and set, the rotor is induced to spin and in the absence of any further stimulation, the rotation and vibration will decay over a period of several seconds.

Antipathy between the water and carbon causes 'water-strings' to spontaneously form centrally in each capillary. Over short distances these water-strings will behave as efficient fibre optics for any light introduced longitudinally at very shallow angles of incidence. Each water-string is bounded by three adjacent, touching carbon fibres, and thus three air-strings will also be present, linked to form a triple-lobed tube of air surrounding each water-string element. An electrostatic charge due to the materials' natural antipathy is maintained in each air-tube string., catalysing and seeding standing-wave regeneration.

As the solid string vibrates the water and air strings are forced to follow, initially at the low numbered harmonics generated. The solid string is required only to resonate within a spectrum of frequencies in the middle to upper range of human hearing - it is not required to physically vibrate at higher frequencies. Higher orders of frequency vibration than this are threatening to the carbon fibres' structural integrity. This is an area where care must be exercised in tuning / tension adjustment.

Use of rattling mechanism (23,24) allows step-detented adjustment of radial positioning for the stators (7a) and combined with the rotational velocity of the rotor (4), determines a synchronous pulse rate for precise and discrete field compression timing spikes within the rotor bore and hence also within the string. This frequency, when applied to the air-strings and water-strings causes constrictions in them, and the resultant shock waves travel away from the octave node in both directions, producing a symmetrical modulation of extant harmonic echoes longitudinally.

Manual pressure control assembly (12,13,14,17) enables mercury to be drawn into the central chamber for start-up. When priming is complete the chamber is emptied, admitting air. Parts (17) are copper rings, set in the plastic handle to provide (a) a manual protective short-turn screen and (b) together with Pin (14) an attempt to directionally focus any fields of unknown provenance (the best I could do in the face of the uncertain). Pin (14) is for fine adjustment of chamber pressure and, slightly flexible, is of magnetostrictive alloy to aid system resonance.

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.

A flexible tubing loop (18), is connected by means of finger-nuts (19) to the chamber (5) via two ducts (20, 21) and , filled with mercury, is required at start-up to complete the circuit between opposing stators. Functioning also as a massive flexible short turn, the looped handle may be used to control vectors of electromagnetic radiation locally generated by the assembled rig (unquantified at time of writing). Once the rotor is up to speed (100,000+ rpm being easily achievable), the mercury can be pumped out of the central chamber or drawn back in by increment as required, by pressure setting mechanism (12,13,14). The loop (18) is large enough to allow for a sufficiently substantial reservoir of mercury in an elastic container which can be easily serviced (without tools) and manually distorted. A much broader range of preset coarse control may also be set instantly, by rotation-detented (23,24) adjustment of the piston-coil formers (10) in either end of the cylinder bore.

At the cut string end a short length of each water-string will be expelled after priming. The properties of electrostatic antipathy, surface tension and extant electromagnetic forces all bear upon the water to exit via the cut string end but the end-meniscus formed at the break will be unable to advance over the last few millimetres, where longitudinal antipathy becomes massive relative to lateral pressure and a balance point occurs, keeping the remainder of the water in each capillary.

With the exception of waves or particles leaving the cut end of the string (1,2,3), all other electro-photonic energies are recaptured by the system and recycled as feedback. As sonoluminescence events occur, only photons vectored in a narrow cone towards the cut end will escape. For a one millimetre diameter core there will be approximately 5,000 capillaries and most of the water-strings contained therein will experience extremely similar conditions at any given distance symmetrically from the octave node. Within the entire core, many millions of the S.L. events will be completely synchronous.

The author finds it ironic, in consideration of quantum theory, that under no circumstances can sonoluminescence events generated in this way be observed except by the summation of their cumulative by-products exterior to the machine. If sonoluminescence events occur en masse at every triggered position of probability throughout the speaking length subject to specifically localised high energy noise then external power supplies may be turned off or withdrawn, the process being temporarily self-sustaining due to (predicted) chained sonoluminescence whilst reserves of water remain within the string core.

The machine has been designed to be manufactured using the absolute minimum number of working parts, for easy, unskilled assembly, adjustment of operation and manual servicing without tools and with operator safety in mind. The parts have been designed to be robust, impossible to wrongly assemble, and to snap-connect together. Power source: Manual agitation to start-up. Fuel: Water with trace mineral elements or compounds. Catalyst: Mercury.