Edward Lewis 209 >>A New Set of Phenomena Mon, 27 Sep 1993 22:04 Edward Lewis: >>A New Set of Phenomena This article is composed of revised parts that I had posted on sci.physics.fusion during the past 1/2 year on the dates that I show. I cite Lerner's book in the first part. In order to get an idea of what I am describing, you may want to read this article several times. Especially, look up the references. Alfven and Lerner and Peratt and many other people have developed similar astronomical theories that can be said to be derivations or summarizations of the experimental work of W. Bostick and others. Bostick wrote a paper that was titled "Plasmoids" that was published in Scientific American in 1957. W. Bostick, "Plasmoids," Scientific American, 197, 87 (October 1957). He may have been the first to apply this term to this phenomena. In this paper, he had already began to tell others about his speculation that galaxies and the phenomena he produced were similar. He compared the shapes and the travel of these things. If I remember correctly, he also speculated a little about the identity of "particles." He shows pictures of different kinds of galaxies in the article and related these to different kinds of plasmoid shapes. I post articles on sci.physics.fusion from time to time, and I wonder whether people will want to check these out. I suspect that CF is a plasmoid phenomena. I would say that an EV is a type of plasmoid. The term REVS may have been coined by K. Shoulders. Since light and electricity interconvert, I tend to identify these. I would like to suggest that people read Matsumoto's 2 articles that are scheduled to be published in Fusion Technology in November of this year. These articles show evidence that are confirmations of my deductions and resolutions, and I suspect that they are very important. I am thinking about getting a patent and starting a company and doing research. Would any one want to help? Also, I am looking for the address of Lerner and Alfven, could any one tell me this? I am also looking for Egon Bach's address and information about his work. EVs, Ball Lightning, CF, Plasmoids and Etc., a New Set of Phenomena Part 1 A New Set of Phenomena (August 17, 1993) It seems that one can define "plasmoid-" type phenomena as an universal phenomena. What I mean is that almost all the anomalous phenomena that I know about seems to be "plasmoid" phenomena, and it seems to be possible to define almost all phenomena as "plasmoid" phenomena. During the last half of last year, I tried to experientially relate cold fusion and "plasmoid" type phenomena. I used the photographs of traces in nuclear emulsions and of cathodes that Matsumoto produced and has shown in his many "cold fusion" articles in Fusion Technology during the last two or three years. I used the photographs of marks in plastics that Nardi and Bostick and others showed(1), marks that they wrote were caused by what they named "EB filaments." The "EB filaments" were produced in much the same way that Bostick had earlier produced what he called "plasmoids." And I used the descriptions of the marks produced by the phenomena that Ken Shoulders calls EVs that I had available(2). I thought that the marks were so similar that I related CF, EB filaments and EVs as the same type of phenomena. I also related other electrical discharge phenomena and ball lightning, and tentatively related these to "superconductivity." At that time as well, I heuristically defined substances as being composed of plasmoid-type phenomena as well. I substances as being composed of plasmoid-type phenomena as well. I suspect that these resolutions are useful. Evidence for this resolution is mounting. I thought that the picture of a micrometer sized thing with an interesting design that is the cathode that Matsumoto showed in the January issue of Fusion Technology(3) (see Part 2 of this article) may be a confirmation of the ideas that I had described in papers that I wrote earlier. Since then I have learned about other confirmations of my deductions. Most basically, the evidence shows that electrolysis is much the same as discharge. I suspect that research in this direction will increase. Moreover, I've learned that Alfven, Peratt, and Lerner(4) and others have developed detailed astronomical theories that astronomical phenomena are plasmoid phenomena similar to those that were produced by Bostick and many others by discharging through wires and points. I suspect that the evidence for this identification is sufficient. I suspect that at least part of the cold fusion phenomena that people have reported is the formation of "plasmoid" phenomena that is larger than the phenomena that were there previously. The production of energy and heavier elements is associated with many plasmoids. Generally, I suspect that CF, superconductivity, EVs, sonoluminescence, cathodoluminescence, and very many other anomalous phenomena are "plasmoid-" type phenomena, and that phenomena in general is "plasmoid-" like. People can produce "plasmoid-" type phenomena by many kinds of stressing of the environment, not only by electricity, such as by breaking or heating substances. The set of phenomena that people have recently produced seems to be patterned this way. This set is the basis for a new kind of general theory. I suspect that the prior two generations have produced a set of anomalous phenomena that is resolvable according to a new kind of premise. I suspect that the development of science has had an approximately eighty year periodicity. At approximately eighty year intervals since 1500, people have produced new kinds of theories because they experienced the many anomalous phenomena, the phenomena that contradicted the prior general theory, that people were producing at those times. Part 2 (February 5, 1993) EVs, Ball Lightning , and CF In his article in the January issue of Fusion Technology(3), Matsumoto shows an SEM photo of a tiny ball lightning-type phenomena. He did not describe the phenomena that was photographed. I described such phenomena in a paper that I finished writing in Dec. 1992. This one is in the material matrix. Unless the white lines are an artifact of some type, most of the it seems to radiate only as much as the surrounding metal radiates, except according to a geometrical pattern, which is very interesting. I would say it is radiating the electricity-light substance I described in the paper. If the electrolysis was discontinued when he took the SEM, then this is an example of a material continuing to radiate after the stress is done. This relates to the experience of many people who have stressed materials in many ways in order to produce energy. Tiny BL-type phenomena is associated with the excess energy and many of the other anomalous phenomena which people have reported. It seems to be a locus of anomalous phenomena. There is now pictorial evidence that the CF phenomena is a tiny BL-type phenomena, at least in part. In the paper that I wrote, I related ball lightning and EVs(2). Not all ball lightning is luminous. Some people have reported seeing ball lightning that was opaque and black(5). Ken Shoulders, who named EVs, reports that he has produced black EVs(2). Ball lightning and EVs may leave the place where they form and travel around. They may leave marks like the ring traces and most of the other traces that Matsumoto has shown. They may travel along surfaces and leave the long trail-like traces Matsumoto has shown in several articles. Matsumoto reports that such a trail was observed associated with another apparatus. He says that the emulsion was located behind the glass of the container of the apparatus and the liquid, and far away from the palladium rod. Therefore, a tiny BL-type phenomena must have traveled through the glass and the water and the air. Ball lightning has been reported to travel through material such as glass and ceramic without any apparent effects on the material. I suspect that effects may be observable microscopically, however. Ohtsuki and Ofuruton have produced ball lightning-like phenomena which traveled through ceramic and which apparently did not effect the ceramic(6). Ball lightning has also been reported to travel though water(7). Golka has produced ball lightning-like phenomena in water. Tiny BL-type phenomena are also the cause of the holes in substances which people find. I am hoping that there can be much more research of this phenomena, and that people will attempt to detect this phenomena. I think it is important that those who research EVs and those who research ball lighting and produce ball lightning-like phenomena participate in the next CF conference. BL researchers have had conferences every year or every other year for several years now, and there is an international BL conference committee. Perhaps the two conferences can be merged together. Many CF researchers have begun to be familiar with this phenomena, so they will probably be interested in discussing BL. An address for the International Committee on Ball Lightning is 381 South Meridith Avenue, Pasadena, California, 91106 U.S.A. Part 3 (August 14, 1993) I suspect that a variety of sizes of BL-type phenomena are produced by electric CF apparatus. I suspect that the glows, coronas, or luminescences that people report are BL-type phenomena, and that the micrometer sized phenomena that people produce are another type of BL phenomena, and that the sparks are also BL-type phenomena. I suspect that "electrons" and neutrons and charged particles and "atoms" are best described as BL-type phenomena as well. I suspect that St. Elmo's fire, coronas, and BL are similar phenomena. People have seen corona and St. Elmo's fire phenomena convert to BL phenomena that moved in the air. People have also seen BL phenomena convert to corona type phenomena. I suspect that the universe can be well described as BL-type phenomena. Alfven, Bostick, Lerner, and Peratt developed general astronomical theories based on their ideas of "plasmoids." Their ideas about the production of energy and elements are interesting. They described galaxies and stars, and the phenomena that people have ascribed to "black holes," such as "white holes," as "plasmoid-" type phenomena. I suspect that sunspots coincide with BL, volcanoes, earthquakes, and storms in the air and sea. I suspect that these phenomena are BL-type phenomena and that they coincide with BL-type phenomena in apparatus. Hawkins discussed(8,9) the coincidence of storm activity and CF phenomena, and he presented experiential evidence of this(9). I suspect that clouds and waves and wind are BL-type phenomena as well. 1. V. Nardi, W. Bostick, J. Feugeas, and W. Prior, "Internal Structure of Electron-Beam Filaments," Physical Review A, 22, no. 5, 2211 (November,1980). 2. K. Shoulders, "Energy Conversion Using High Charge Density," Patent Number 5,123,039. 3. T. Matsumoto,"Observation of Mesh Like Traces on Nuclear Emulsions During Cold Fusion," Fusion Technology, 23, (January 1993). 4. E. Lerner, The Big Bang Never Happened, New York, 1991. 5. S. Singer, The Nature of Ball Lightning, New York, 1971, p. 67. 6. Y. H. Ohtsuki and H. Ofuruton, "Plasma Fireballs Formed by Microwave Interference in Air," Nature, 350, 139 (March 14, 1991). 7. S. Singer, The Nature of Ball Lightning, New York, 1971, p. 69. 8. N. Hawkins, "Possible Natural Cold Fusion in the Atmosphere," Fusion Technology, 19, 2112 (July 1991). 9. N. Hawkins et al., "Investigations of Mechanisms and Occurrence of Technology, 19, 2112 (July 1991). 9. N. Hawkins et al., "Investigations of Mechanisms and Occurrence of Meteorologically Triggered Cold Fusion at the Chinese Academy of Sciences," Proc. Conf. Anomalous Nuclear Effects in Deuterium/Solid Systems Provo, Utah, October 22-24, 1990. ions of Mechanisms and Occurrence of Meteorologically Triggered Cold Fusion at the Chinese Academy of Sciences," Proc. Conf. Anomalous Nuclear Effects in Deuterium/Solid Systems Provo, Utah, October 22-24, 1990.