Monday, March 2, 2009

Another Force

Posted by Dale Miller

We have such oodles and oodles of data nowadays that surely many conclusions are due to us just from incidental appraisal of evidence already at hand. It does seem that we can now critique popular reports of cosmic acceleration, explain snowflake and lightning formation processes, describe the workings of polar jets, and deduce how super massive black holes snare stars that had been orbiting them. This posting attempts to break such ground with revelation of a forsaken force in cosmic architecture.

Contemplation of M. Faraday's ice pail suggests that charged particles can and do become rearranged for indefinite periods of time. We might describe such phenomena as electroconcentric repolarization. The effect represents a migration of particles that results in altered situations for the materials involved. Therein lies Another Force. A good local example of such material shifting might be the meteorologist's FWC (Fair Weather Current) whereby electrons travel up through the atmosphere to our electrosphere AKA ionosphere. Most electronics technicians should suppose this current to demonstrate that the earth has more negative particles than positive ones, and the consequential negative charge resides at the earth's outer limits in keeping with Faraday's demonstration.

It follows that positive charges travel or propagate downward to the center of our planet. Gravity must suffice to withhold those extra electrons from earthly departure. Given the electrostatic traction afforded such particles, it also follows that any ionizing event that reduces an ion's pull upon its displaced electron to less than the pull of global traction will yield that electron to the electrosphere. The added positive charge propagated to Earth's core provides the additional holding required for the added electron enlisted into the electrosphere, but we can know that neither transition represents a storage of energy because the excursions are taken exothermically. Despite the semantic hazard of the charged particles involved then, there is no energy invested by the rearrangement; hence there is no concern about imperfect insulation. Your informant remains unaware of any limit to the ratio of electrons thus retained electrically to those under gravitational restraint, nor of any limit to the size of a Faraday cage.

If no one shows us that repolarization doesn't happen, we will get back soon with some more of the story.

3 comments:

  1. I found some cool photos of Farady Ice Pails - are these the same things? http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Static_Electricity/Faradays_Ice_Pail/Faraday_Ice_Pail.html

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  2. Right on! Thanks. You caught me using an invalid cliche for a Faraday Cage. Was attempting casual assertion that just about any body serves as a Faraday Cage if either polarity achieves a majority count.

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  3. OK great I just wanted to make sure I wasn't confused about what you were talking about! I understand now!

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