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My partner in gradute school called it "The Gillespie Effect". At Rice University around 1990 I discovered a technique to create a "blue light source" which lasted up to several minutes from nothing but a piece of foam rubber. It happened during an experiment to measure semiconductor optical flourescence, when a piece foam rubber that was used to help secure a low temperature cryostat, was accidentally spashed with liquid nitrogen when the dewar was over filled . The frozen foam rubber was accidentally irradiated by UV light from low power Helium-Cadmiun laser (325 nm wavelngth)and a brilliant blue glow light formed right before before my eyes. It continued to emit blue light whuch was quite bright for 1-2 minutes even when the UV light was turned off! When I showed my co-workers, they coined it "The Gillespie Effect" aftet yours truely. We never persued trying to exploit the phenomenon for anything further because it didn't seem very practcal for most uses. We assume the blue was from the N2 emmission held by the frame work of the foam rubber, but it could be something more. It also worked with a mercury lamp source. It looked pretty cool the first time! Paul Gillespie Paul Gillespie <pgil64 at sign yahoo com > Allen, TX USA - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 09:27:18 (PDT)

My flux capacitor messageboard is at: http://www.insidetheweb com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb974786 John Bajak < johnbajak a hotmail com> White Plains, NY USA - Thursday, February 10, 2000 at 04:26:54 (PST)

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Back when I was about 14, something I had built did something I'd classify as odd. The circuit was simple: the DC-DC inverter salvaged out of an old xenon timing light, and one of those hoop-shaped UHF television antennas. I hooked the inverter to 12 volts DC from a wall adapter, and connected the high voltage/high frequency secondary to the two leads on the hoop. Surprisingly, the crude device didn't short out and go up in a fireball; and I could hear the inverter make a faint "whining" sound from the transformer laminations vibrating. Somewhere along the line, I got the bright idea to stick something inside the loop and see what (if anyhthing) would happen - I expected at most some magnetic oddity. So I suspended an ordinary steel paper clip in the exact center of the ring with fine sewing thread, and plugged the circuit in. The paper clip developed a faint blue glow around it, and about ten or fifteen seconds in, IT VANISHED, leaving the sewing thread dangling free. Where did it go? What makes this so odd? It's that when I reversed the polarity of the hoop (by doing the 'ol switcheroo of the two high voltage leads) and repowered the thing, the paper clip reappeared on the thread amidst a faint blue corona like it had the first time around. The paper clip appeared to be intact, and did not change temperature or exhibit any obvious metallurgical changes. So this leaves the question: Where did the paperclip go anyway? Did it really "transport" to another physical location? Did it slip through our spacetime and end up in some kind of subspace domain or interfold layer? Did a quantum phase shift occur, putting it slightly out of phase with the dimension we exist in? Did it end up in another quantum reality; ie. an alternate universe? Or did it time-travel to some past or future point? I think I can rule out a straight "transport" from one physical location to another; for the paperclip would have likely fallen on its side during the first half of transport and reappeared in a different physical orientation; assuming it reappeared at all. It might also come back very cold (from being briefly exposed to space, should it have been transported there). Time travel also seems suspect; a very similar effect might have been observed upon its return - again, it might not even have been retrievable. That still leaves the door wide open as to what may have happened to that paper clip after it vanished from the wire hoop. About two weeks after this experiment, I came home from school one day to find the entire apparatus (which had been set up on a dresser) quite thoroughly destroyed; and I've never been able to re-create these results nor did I ever find out who smashed th e piss out of it. Has anybody else come across some wierd effects in some circuit they messed with, either intentionally or by accident - not counting the Bajak flux cap, of course. Craig Johnson <toyletbowlbbs a worldnet.att.net> Seattle, WA USA - Friday, January 21, 2000 at 03:37:35 (PST)

ABOUT THE ABOVE. In the book " Lost Science" by Jerry Vassilatos, the author describes how the infamous "Philadelphia Experiment" took shape. It started with a huge pulse-welder which was used in a Navy yard to fuse steel plates together while building battleship hulls. Workers reported that certain tools would turn up missing after each welding "shot." There were no eyewitnesses since the welder created an x-ray hazard, so workers were not allowed nearby. So they set up film cameras and recorded the tools actually vanishing. That was supposedly the event which started the research program. (But just who told Vassilatos about this, and how do we know they weren't just making it up?) Anyway, if the paperclip really did vanish, and if the Philadelphia Experiment really did make metal turn transparent, then perhaps the key to tabletop replication of the Philadelphia Experiment is to pump some high frequency pulses through a small single-turn coil of heavy wire with a paperclip suspended in the center. (Maybe you need to use steel wire in order to attain the effect, since those UHF antennas weren't usually made of copper, and that would also explain why we don't observe such things when working with normal copper-coil inductors.) But if such things are real, why don't we see them all the time in the electronics business? WHen running the "quarter shrinker" metal crushing capacitor device, why doesn't the quarter frequently vanish? Maybe the stories are bogus. But here's another possibility. When we discharge a big capacitor, usually the waveform is AC added to the DC; it's exponential ringing. If the fields are important, and if nonlinear effects are involved, then the AC component might screw things up. (If reversing the polarity will reverse the spacewarp, then an AC pulse train added to the DC pulse might keep the effect from happening at all.) We'd want to pick a discharge resistor that gave a neutrally-damped output pulse, but not so large a value that the pulse would be greatly weakened. Perhaps a lucky experimenter would use just the right coil to produce strong fields but without high-frequency ringing, while other experimenters would never hit on the right conditions. (It's very important to preserve the original experiment... and often you can't help anyone to replicate the effect by just giving them written explanation, they have to come and see the actual device.) Bill B Seattle, WA - Saturday, June 3, 2003 at 6:51:42 (PST)

Some time ago, after seeing the Bajak Flux Cap. I decided to construct one myself. I could not find all of the exact parts, so I fudged a little and used capacitors that were as close to spec as I could obtain without having to order parts. A little reluctantly I switched on the circuit for the first time, thinking of the story attached to the plans. Nothing happened. I wasn't too surprised. I continued to play with the switches and varied the times and order of pressing the switches. I began to feel a little weird, kinda like I was slightly nervous or worried subconsiously. Maybe I was to a point. Then I got brave and aimed the transucer towards myself from about a foot away. After a few moments, I began to get a slight headache. Excited, I turned on the circuit and placed it on the table and sat with my head over it. The headache grew so intense that I did not think I would be able to go to work that afternoon. The next day I repeated my little experiment. The headache returned. I tried turning the rheostat both times to see if I could detect any changes. Nothing different. On the second day however, after turning the pot each way to its max, suddenly I put the smoke theory of electricity into effect. My rheostat burned out with quite the little smoke and spark show. Quite impressive from only two 9vs. I plan to order the correct parts and rebuild it in a small plastic box. One theory I have on the headaches is, that without a driver circuit, maybe the transducer emits some sort of sound freq. that tends to give humans a headache. I dont have a dog or I would have tested that theory. I am not an electronics whiz, I only know the basic principals behind electric current and can follow simple schematics enough to get by. If my theory is totally off the wall, let me know. Rod Peters <petersr a uniserve com> Vanderhoof, BC CANADA - Sunday, May 09, 1999 at 20:54:46 (PDT)

Hi, I just noticed if you have been experiemented with such devices as Van De Graaff generators for awhile (i.e., hair rasing experiments and letting them shock you), and go into a dark room with a flourescent tubes, and then rub it, it will glow dimly. This result can be seen many hours after contact with the generator. One night I was running and experiment with the Van De Graaff generator and showing off in front of my friends (shocking myself and my girl friend). I got up the next morning, reached over, and toched my alarm clock (which was unpluged as usual due to the dog). Upon touching it, I actived the LCD display. For the longest time I couldn't figure it out, until I decided to just forget about it and take a shower. When I entered my bathroom (which has flourescent lights around the mirror) I noticed the light was glowing. I rubbed it, and as it had done before, it increased in intensity. Quite fascinating. Perhaps the humidity was low and I hadn't come in contact with any ground source all through the night. Therefore, the static remained stored in me? I was a giant human capicator? Pretty cool. If you have a Van De Graaff, the experiment with flourescent tubes is pretty cool. Be sure to do it in a darkened enviroment. You can really freak your friends out by rubbing the tube and making it glow, then handing it to them...what(!?)...they can't do it??? That's becuase they don't have the "gift" :-) - Tom Tom <N/A> Columbus, OH USA - Friday, May 07, 1999 at 21:39:27 (PDT)

A few days ago, I read this post by Bill Beaty's brother: Fort Myers, FL USA - Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 20:39:29 (PST) > Now, at first, I thought, "This guy has just had some luck at guessing the time." Until, later that day, I was cooking some food in the kitchen, and like Dave, I set the electronic timer to ten minutes. While waiting for the food to be done, I walked around and listened to some music, moshing all over the kitchen and so on. Then, just to amuse myself, i remembered this post I read and pointed at the timer without looking. At this very instant, it went off. This scared the living #$ a ! out of me! I checked the pizza in the oven, and the cheese wasnt fully melted, so, I set the timer for an extra three minutes and went back to headbanging. To test my luck again, I spontaneuosly pointed at the timer and sure enough, it went off immediately. Remember, there are NO CLOCKS IN THE KITCHEN, and even if there were, i would be too dizzy from jumping around to read them correctly. As a result of this experience, I have been led to believe Dave Beaty's idea that humans may have some sort of "internal clock" that gives them an amazingly accurate sense of the passing of time. If anyone else has had these type of experiences, please let us know. Dan Greuel <virtuoso35 a geocities com> Milwaukee, WI USA - Wednesday, April 21, 1999 at 19:38:02 (PDT)

I have always been intrested with time and time travel. Now Since that i read a lot of enstine stuff and i came to the conclustion that time couldn't be fiddled with. I knew that the faster you travel in a object that the slower time gets and your mass increases and when you hit hte speed of light you mass gecome infinet and time stops no if you know anything about science you would know that it would take more that infinet energy to propell that craft faster than light. And IF you could do that you could go back in time. I thought of this and sine i don't have any space crafts that go faster than light then I couldn't go back in time. Then one day (after seeing "Back to the Future")I thought to humor myself and do a internet search on time travel and i found the bajak flux capacitor i have the plans and i don't think that they are 100% right so if you could e-mail me the plans of a place in which i can get the real ones then that would be great. I Will post my finding of the plans on this page. Or if this plan is riht then i don't need another one I would also like some site adress talking about this Flux Capacitance Time Travel Circuit (c) John Bajak 1990 ^ / | +-------o o----/\/\/\/---+------+-------+ | S1 | | | | | G1 | | \ + --- + | --- --/-> G2 ----- B1 ----- XXX P1 \ --- C1----- --- | ----- | | o | | | \ G3 | | | o +-------------------------+------+-------+ B1 27 volt source C1 1200 uF 50V cap electrolytic P1 piezoelectric transducer (value uncritical) S1 charging switch (SPST) G1 25-ohm rheostat (future control) G2,G3 switch (SPST) and 1M-ohm potentiometer for past control < Transcriber's note: I don't know whether G1 and G2 are really supposedto be a rheostat and a potentiometer, or both rheostats, or both pots. He refers to two rheostats elsewhere, and I was just going to call them pots until I remembered that rheostats would have some inductance. > Louis Murphy <LMurphy5 a go com> Darien, IL USA - Tuesday, April 06, 1999 at 15:00:44 (PDT)

Internal Timer. Several experiences have led me to believe we have an untapped ability to judge the passage of time, in some circumstances, to a very accurate degree. The other day I had the mechanical timer set on the stove for 15 minutes or so. I went off and was watching television. All of a sudden I knew it was about to go off. I went to the kitchen and rasied my hand. As I humorously lowered it and pointed at the timer, it went off at that instant. I wasn't even looking at the reading when I did this. Reminds me of the times I set the alarm to an early hour and wake from a sound sleep, look at the alarm and it goes of the moment I look at it. Anyone else? Dave Beaty Bill's Brother <dbeaty a gate.net> Fort Myers, FL USA - Saturday, February 06, 1999 at 20:39:29 (PST)

Green Flashes Get some lifesavers or other similar sweets, Go into a dark place and get a friend to watch as you bite in to one....you get a bright green flash.! Kind of like the green light in "The Tommy Knockers"!!! extremely strange. Hitting sugar cubes with a hammer should work too. The Baron Southampton, UK - Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 09:39:37 (PST)

The Blue Flash! Go to the refrigerator in near total darkness. (You need to have your eyes dark adapted.) Grab an unmolested ice tray; metal, plastic, whatever. Place it over the sink (to catch ice cubes). Crack the ice cubes loose by twisting the tray. Bango! All the cubes make a blue flash when they pop loose. Get some sleep. Robert Fritzius <rsf1 a ebicom.net> Starkville, MS USA - Saturday, January 30, 1999 at 22:38:04 (PST)

I was building a electromagnet and It was starting to look good. I had put a switch on it to divert the power at my will. Also, i had added a minutere tesla coil to the design for optimal power. when i hooked it up to a 9 volt battery and i held up the screwdriver which i had wrapped the wire around to magnatise. i was able to take my other hand and metal objects would attract to it as if my hand were a magnet. Anonymous USA - Monday, January 25, 1999 at 03:55:25 (PST)

Odd image on wall Somebody at work moved a metal rack which had been against the wall in the hall for years. The white-painted wall contained a sort of fuzzy dark "image" of this rack. Bleaching by light? No, the image was a brown-colored deposit of fine dust. The rack was not touching the wall, but was spaced about 1 in. away. This rack is made of white-painted steel pipes, and the side of the pipes which faces the wall ALSO had a heavy dust deposit. Hah! A clue! Dust does not settle on polished vertical surfaces unless they are electrically charged. This rack has a row of coathangers with blue labcoats, the specialized conductive-cloth types used in electronics labs. Here's what must have occurred. People walking down the hall become electrostatically charged (rug floor). They constantly bump against the blue coats, charging them, and therefor charging the entire rack. The rack has plastic feet, and sits on a rug-covered floor, so each charging event would presumably decay over many minutes. The gap between the rack and the wall is behaving as an electrostatic air cleaner! As air carries dust along, the strong field gradients between the steel pipes and the wall will cause electrified dust to be driven either into the wall or into the rack. A layer of dust builds up on the back of the rack, and the wall ends up with a fairly detailed "image" of the rack. Xerography in action. Now that I think about it, I think I've seen these "images" of metal cabinet-backs appearing on walls before. It must not be a very rare phenomenon. Bill Beaty Seattle, wa USA - Tuesday, December 22, 1998 at 18:09:36 (PST)

I've seen discussions of "pool devils", the V-shaped wakes that mysteriously zip across the surface of swimming pools. Here's something similar: Falaco Solitons (w/cool photo) Bill Beaty Seattle, WA USA - Monday, April 27, 1998 at 15:12:46 (PDT)

Currently and for the past year I have been experiencing some form of neurological interface or synthetic telepathy. There is apparently direct access to my mind and two way communication via some technology. At 1225 W. Lunt Chicago Il. 60626-3079 in my apartment the phenomena is most intense. I have not had x-rays yet to check for implants but invite researchers with instrumentation to verify What I am reporting. This may also be some type of domestic terrorist group operating in Chicago in the begining of what will probalby be what is termed DIRECTED ENERGY WARFARE. This is a website for a patent: http://patents.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ilink4?INDEX+0+4877027+F This is a description of a technology from the 40'S that can do it: http://www.ufobbs com/txt2/1862.ufo These are other victims of similar things: http://www.mk net/~mcf/ What this means is that the human brain as a mind thing can be interfaced to machines or some type of recording. I am experimented on and interrogated in my own home daily against my will with zero compensation as well as tortured to bleeding by a group of people who have zero regard for my privacy or human rights and try to abuse me in every possible way using this technology. This is similar to the Dr.Mengele method of involuntary human experimentation. The medium could be used for good but is is instead being used to try to lobotimize me, spy on every thought and violate my constitutional rights. They also try to sexually harass me as well daily with this technology. This method must be stopped as it is being used on U.S. soil to strip away constitutional rights, of law abiding patriotic citizens. The group using the technology is trying to drive me insane with it and destroy my mind. Its a shame to see such technology used for such selfish and lowly purposes when it could be used in such a different way. Steve Wilson <SamadhiW a aol com> Chicago, il USA - Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 06:09:26 (PST)

There I was researching the flux capacitor when I realised that if something were to travel through time it would stay in the same place it was in when it shifted in the linear time stream. And thus it was obvious that any displacement of an object through the space-time continuum would not likely remain in an useful earthly postion. Since the surface of the earth is traveling at about 920 miles per hour about its axis, and since the earth itself is orbiting about the sun at about 66,000 miles per hour, and of course the solar system is rotating in its place within the milkyway galaxy...... well as you can see, it all get rather stupid and compicated quiclky. As I began to calculate the adjustments needed to the flux capacitor concept in order to displace correctly with the space-time coordinate system, I quickly realized I was stuck with a 27 dimension problem which I would not be able to resolve with my super nintendo powered apparatus. While I have built the flux capacitor system, I have not been able to replicate the dual watch experiment in the same way as others have indicated in the web page. Unfortunately, everytime the system is fired up, the "target" watch apparently vanishes off to somewhere else in time and space. Very weird!!!! At first, in the first trial where the system was run for only seventeen seconds, the target watch became incredibly hot, the hands warped into a perfect french curve shape, and the crystal was shatered in an odd repeating spiral pattern. When a new target watch was substituted and the flux capacitor allowed to operate for 1 minute, the watch merely glowed blue and red and then disolved into thin air. Please help me understand, are these objects really going somewhere? Are they just becoming invisible? The flux capacitor circuit is starting to really bother me. I find it hard to sleep at night and I haven't had the courage to run it for longer than 1 minute. On the last trial I felt like the table was also beginning to show signs of temporal distortions showing up in the pattern on the formica surface (Incredibly wierd!)
Thanks,GA
Ginger Ayle <gingera23 a aol com>
madison, WI USA - Sunday, October 11, 1998 at 19:01:32 (PDT)

Some of the "air-stream rays" appeared to originate at the tips of tiny pieces of lint which were clinging to the wire. The big mystery: if these "rays" are simply charged wind, why do they form narrow streams? Charged wind should self-repel and spread out!
Bill Beaty
Seattle, WA USA - Saturday, June 06, 1998 at 01:04:00 (PDT)