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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

There is no explanation that is consistent, nor of any scientific analysis and value to date.

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ORIGINAL: dRGreen420

Well that's what it is nonetheless. Nothing is bending, the metal is dangling free.

If one was claiming that the metal was bending, then that person would be accused of talking nonsense. So I don't see how the same argument can be used to explain it away. It can clearly be seen that the metal isn't bending due to heat.





Not to mention if that was the case then the same effect would be observed with a bulb powered from mains, because the same heat would be produced. But the effect is not observed.



So "I don't believe" about sums it up. This is the/a point. I replicated it to find out the truth. "Not believing it" and arguing against it with no experimental background is irrelevant because it's the same as saying the earth is flat. It is what it is whether you believe it or not, reality is only for humans to catch up with, it has always been the way it will always be regardless of human beliefs at any particular point in their evolution.

If one is going to be pedantic to the idiotic level, one is even less likely to convince, since we are unsure of any factual evidence that the whatever that strip is is dangling, that it is not motivated out of frame, or that the other bulb is somehow different. So, we have nonsense explicating more nonsense.

There has been no demonstration and this 'dollard' is nonsense, since there is no meaning to that word.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Nobody else knows that though. We have seen myriad manipulated video and photographs.  There is no explanation that is consistent, nor of any scientific analysis and value to date.

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ORIGINAL: dRGreen420

Eric Dollard is the guy's name. He is ex NAVY and RCA radio engineer and electrical engineer, he is the one who will tell you to throw the Meyl toys and Bedini and Bearden trash in the bin. He currently has no equipment but has been working on theory based on the work of earlier scientists such as Heaviside and Steinmetz, which I and two others have been testing and providing him with the experimental data. Hence the obstacle arrived at is an advanced transmission line problem. He's not working in secrecy behind closed doors.

The whole setup from the video is shown in a lot more detail in the actual video and the bulbs are identical, if you were to take the time to check the source. I expect Real0ne converted the video sections into gif knowing that no one will ever spend 55 mins of their time watching such a thing to learn something different. That's not to be pedantic, that's to illustrate the difference between an opinion over the front cover and an opinion over the whole story behind the cover.

I know there's no strings off camera pulling it because I replicated it to find out. I didn't attach any strings so I know 100% for certain there are no strings. Not to mention faking the whole thing, including the free swing convincingly, would be a lot more trouble than it's worth. The effects are easier observed for real than they are faked, and I certainly wouldn't bother wasting my time making fake crap to come here to try and convince you people that it's real. All effects you have seen here are real and are easily reproduced, it can be science or it can be magic depending on how you want to go about it. I understand your scepticism but at the same time in that case the only way you will ever find out is by doing it yourself, which you probably won't due to the scepticism, so you'll never know. Which then again doesn't really make any difference I suppose unless you're interested in that sort of thing.

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ORIGINAL: Aswad

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Fair enough, but the focus of this isn't really the light, that's just one effect or application.

Point being, if the spectral evolution is consistent with a blackbody heating up, that is substantially different from things like leakage ionization and the like. And even so, it's not news that a single wire is enough to transfer a charge, which will cause heating if there is repeated transfer of a charge in both directions. Such is the way of self capacitance. Nor is it news that nearfield EM has many interesting applications, such as in induction heating of nearby foils of metal or remote transfer of energy.

Showing the spectral balance will go a long way toward the necessary step of letting others get a handle on what you're claiming to be doing. If you additionally capture the evolution of the spectral balance, you can disambiguate a large number of effects, which is a part of what you need to do if you want to show that there is something else at work than the effects that spring most readily to mind. I'm assuming you're sufficiently familiar with electronics and optics to set up the gear to do these things, and thus pointing out that it may hurt your credibility to not show these aspects of your work.

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Although I have been curious about the light spectrum, these things keep branching off from the main thing.

Hardly. It is one of the places where anything interesting will show up. It might also be a good idea to show the 3D magnetic and electric field evolution in the area, and at low frequencies it is quite possible to get a decent sampling from fluxgate magnetometers to circumvent the low resolution of Hall effect sensors, as well as using regular JFETs in a differential matrix for the electric fields. Such measurements are crucial to showing what's actually going on.

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In this video for example there is the light, but also the way the bulb is powered to even produce the light to begin with.

Which is what you would disambiguate with spectral measurements and field maps.

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The jar is completely isolated by normal standards and placed next to the bucket of soil which is energised by one terminal of the coil

Which is consistent with the excellent dielectric properties of a glass jar full of water and the presence of an alternating field.

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So while it's all well and good if light is your thing, I want to know the same thing too and you will have what you requested

I'll be around.

As I tried to point out before, I'm not convinced, but I'd love to find something unexpected.

IWYW,
— Aswad.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

That is not the video they were pulled from, your claims are not in any wise correct.  ever.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

That is not the video they were pulled from, your claims are not in any wise correct.  ever.

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ORIGINAL: dRGreen420

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

That is not the video they were pulled from, your claims are not in any wise correct.  ever.

That is the video. The part in question begins at 22 minutes. The other one is my replication of it (with low power because the camera was useless).

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

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ORIGINAL: dRGreen420

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

That is not the video they were pulled from, your claims are not in any wise correct.  ever.

That is the video. The part in question begins at 22 minutes. The other one is my replication of it (with low power because the camera was useless).

So, it is a remake of a remake.  Thank you.  Just trying to keep the informative aspect of this in play.

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ORIGINAL: Nikola Tesla

I have to say here that when I filed the application of September 2, 1897, for the transmission of energy in which this method was disclosed, it was already clear to me that I did not need to have terminals at such high elevation, but I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.

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ORIGINAL: Nikola Tesla

The discovery of the conducting properties of the air, though unexpected, was only a natural result of experiments in a special field which I had carried on for some years before.  It was, I believe, during 1889 that certain possibilities offered by extremely rapid electrical oscillations determined me to design a number of special machines adapted for their investigation.  Owing to the peculiar requirements, the construction of these machines was very difficult, and consumed much time and effort; but my work on them was generously rewarded, for I reached by their means several novel and important results.  One of the earliest observations I made with these new machines was that electrical oscillations of an extremely high rate act in an extraordinary manner upon the human organism.  Thus, for instance, I demonstrated that powerful electrical discharges of several hundred thousand volts, which at that time were considered absolutely deadly, could be passed through the body without inconvenience or hurtful consequences.  These oscillations produced other specific physiological effects, which, upon my announcement, were eagerly taken up by skilled physicians and further investigated.  This new field has proved itself fruitful beyond expectation, and in the few years which have passed since, it has been developed to such an extent that it now forms a legitimate and important department of medical science.  Many results, thought impossible at that time, are now readily obtainable with these oscillations, and many experiments undreamed of then can now be readily performed by their means.  I still remember with pleasure how, nine years ago, I passed the discharge of a powerful induction-coil through my body to demonstrate before a scientific society the comparative harmlessness of very rapidly vibrating electric currents, and I can still recall the astonishment of my audience.  I would now undertake, with much less apprehension that I had in that experiment, to transmit through my body with such currents the entire electrical energy of the dynamos now working at Niagara—forty or fifty thousand horse-power.  I have produced electrical oscillations which were of such intensity that when circulating through my arms and chest they have melted wires which joined my hands, and still I felt no inconvenience.  I have energized with such oscillations a loop of heavy copper wire so powerfully that masses of metal, and even objects of an electrical resistance specifically greater than that of human tissue brought close to or placed within the loop, were heated to a high temperature and melted, often with the violence of an explosion, and yet into this very space in which this terribly-destructive turmoil was going on I have repeatedly thrust my head without feeling anything or experiencing injurious after-effects.

Another observation was that by means of such oscillations light could be produced in a novel and more economical manner, which promised to lead to an ideal system of electric illumination by vacuum-tubes, dispensing with the necessity of renewal of lamps or incandescent filaments, and possibly also with the use of wires in the interior of buildings.  The efficiency of this light increases in proportion to the rate of the oscillations, and its commercial success is, therefore, dependent on the economical production of electrical vibrations of transcending rates.  In this direction I have met with gratifying success of late, and the practical introduction of this new system of illumination is not far off.