(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2) Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501 Sponsored by Vangard Sciences PO BOX 1031 Mesquite, TX 75150 There are ABSOLUTELY NO RESTRICTIONS on duplicating, publishing or distributing the files on KeelyNet! August 19, 1991 KEW.ASC -------------------------------------------------------------------- This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Jim Schaffer. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kinetic Energy Weapons (KEWs) verses Lorentz - 05/20/88 For those of you who may have just tuned in, you may be wondering why, we are discussing Kinetic Energy Weapons (KEWs for short) here. It started with my question on which issue of "The American Rifleman", had info on a Railgun (Does any one know the issue?). I'll speculate that mention of Railguns was prompted by the article in Circuit Cellar Ink #2, "Circuit Cellar Neighborhood Strategic Defense Initiative [,] The Ballistic Dynamics of Plastic Soda Bottles" by Steve Ciarcia & Ed Nisley. So here we are at: "Kinetic Energy Weapons (KEWs) verses Lorentz". Also related is the 'thread' of messages on making the Plastic Soda Bottle into a capacitor, and charging it to a high voltage potential to increase lift, without increasing fuel. Its taken me a lot longer to get this message composed that I thought it would, some of the references, to say the least, are obscure, and took time to find them. I want to explain some things here, I am not a physicist, nor have I had any formal education in such areas. I simply have a desire to read things that most people politely term esoteric and ignore with out further thought. My desire to read the esoteric has resulted in my accumulation of a rather large collection of odds-and-ends that "don't fit in" with accepted physical "Laws", for example: Railgun verses Lorentz. The one common tread that runs between all of these odds-and-ends, is that there are usually some 'anomalies' to each of the "Laws", that the "Law" itself does not account for, at some scale. My view is that if it is a "Law" it should work no matter what the scale, from microscopic to macroscopic. As an example, Lorentz's law didn't break down until someone tried to use macroscopic currents in a Railgun. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1 Here are the specific references to Kinetic Energy Weapons : [Any one know where I can get more of such info?] 1) "Railgun Research Shoots Holes In Lorentz's Theory": pg 49; "Railgun Research Shoots Holes In Lorentz Law Of Electromagnetism": pg 50; by Chappell Brown; Electronic Engineering Times Monday, April 6, 1987 pg 49 2) "Anomalies In Electromagnetic Law Spur Debate" pg 58, by Chappell Brown; Electronic Engineering Times Monday, September 14, 1987. 3) "Electrons And Conduction: Not So Simple After All": pg 21; "Lorentz No Longer Gives Answers Ampere's Theory Holds Clues to Current Problem": pg 22, by Chappell Brown, Electronic Engineering Times, Monday, December 28, 1987 4) "Debate Over Use Of Energy Weapons Thrives" pg 41, by ? Van Nostrand; Electronic Engineering Times, Monday, September 7, 1987 5) "Dusting Off An Old Idea: Shooting Into Orbit": pg 37, by Chappell Brown; Electronic Engineering Times, Monday, August 31, 1987 6) Defense Electronics, May 1988 Vol. 20, #5, "SDI: More Spin- Offs Than Apollo?" Pg 39-45, by J.W.R -------------------------------------------------------------------- From Ref #2: "It is important to realize that the mismatch between theory and observation is not some barely discernible quantity. [It] involves factors in the thousands." So says Peter Graneau, a Physicist at Northeastern University's Center of Electromagnetics Research, commenting on anomalies in Lorentz's force law. "The situation is more than academic bickering, since the formula is one of the pillars of relativity theory." "Graneau has shown that objects move, buckle and break under forces that are not found in current electromagnetic equations." -------------------------------------------------------------------- From Ref #3: "...the Ampere and Lorentz laws only agree for closed circuits. When the source of the electromagnetic effect is an isolated current element, a large discrepancy appears." "Amperean forces also explain the wire fragmentation that occurs at high currents. Current-element analysis also Page 2 explains the existence of the longitudinal electromagnetic waves that were observed by Radio pioneer Nikola Tesla. Because such waves cannot be derived from Maxwell's equations, Tesla's experiments were ignored..." [Or were they actively suppressed? See the references referring to T. E. Bearden, and Scalar waves.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- From ref #5: "A physicist [Peter Graneau] at Northeastern University has found that current pulses in water can develop strong forces which, when contained in a gun barrel, produce unprecedented muzzle velocities." "...Northeastern's new electromagnetics research center has uncovered a new 'electrodynamic' phenomenon, dubbed the "alpha torque," that only manifests itself in liquid conductors like air, water and molten metals. The results show that the new method of propulsion can easily out-perform both chemical explosives and electromagnetic rail guns." "The crucial issue is how electric arcs generate these forces in fluids. We have given up on thermodynamic explanations. Ruling out gravitational and nuclear forces, there really remains no choice but to seek an electrodynamic explanation," "Graneau calculates that a 2-million-amp arc explosion in a 350-meter barrel would accelerate a 20-kg projectile to 13 km per second." "Graneau has had to resurrect an older formulation of electromagnetic theory in order to explain the arc explosions. The theory was originated by the French physicist Andre-Marie Ampere at the beginning of the 19th century and was further elaborated by A. F. Neuman in Germany." In the modern formulation, the Lorentz formula governs the movement of electrons in electromagnetic fields. "Applying the Lorentz formula to the water arc experiments leads to an entirely different prediction of the propagated forces. A much smaller force acting to contain the plasma was predicted, and this helped derail applications of arc forces." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are a few notes of my own. Lightning is an arc force. So what are some useful things we can do with it? The projectiles that are fired by KEWs must survive, and maintain there aerodynamic properties, when they impact with the air at the end of their muzzles. Firing a bullet at 10 km per second into air, would be like driving your car into a brick wall at 1000 mph; instant pan-cake. Some type Page 3 of ceramic material would probably be the best avenue to pursue for the projectile. Can we pick up some distilled water, or maybe mineral water (a good point to experiment with), at the super market, a few dozen 300,000 uF caps at a hamfest, and make our own arc force powered 'Plastic Soda Bottle' launcher, without blowing ourself up? I brought up (a)ether, and you brought up Michelson/Morley experiment, so lets see where we can go with that: This is what my dictionary has to say about (a)ether: E-ther: Noun. 1) Chem. a.) A colorless, mobile, volatile, aromatic liquid compound, ethyl oxide, (C2H5)2O, made by the action of sulfuric acid on alcohol: used as an anesthetic and solvent. b.) Any of a group of organic compounds in which an oxygen atom is joined with two organic radicals. 2) A solid or semi-solid, perfectly elastic medium formerly [?] assumed to pervade all of space and to be responsible for the transmission of light, heat, gravitational effects, and all forms of energy and radiation. 3) The upper air. Also spelled "AETHER" (for defs. 2 and 3). [