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I'm a chemistry major. I was roto-vaping DCM off a solution under
vacuum and with some heat applied (Heidolph brand rotovap with a dry ice /
isopropanol cold finger condenser). I noticed that the condensing DCM on
the inside of the large condenser outer walls would flow down like normal
condensing liquid...
However, when my gloved fingers touched the outside of the condenser and
moved down in front of an advancing drop it would alter the course of the
drop to a small extent. I could somewhat alter the path of a droplet so
that it was following a line downwards more or less 20 degrees either
direction left or right from vertical. I couldn't do it reliably every
time because drops which became too large were not effected enough and
would flow down the side too fast. However it was very clear that touching
it was having a considerable effect on it.
A strange effect to be sure. As for a possible explanation... I think
perhaps the temperature difference of my finger tips was enough to heat up
the area before and to the side of a drop so that it very very slightly
decreased the surface tension of the DCM and made the resulting slightly
hotter path a more "favorable" path to take to flow with less restriction.
This explanation makes the most sense to me since it was under vacuum
anyways so the temperature of the DCM coming off wasn't very high
considering DCM's boiling point, and decreased boiling point under vacuum.
The heating bath was filled with plain water as well.
I'm not sure how repeatable this would be since lab temperatures vary,
rotovaps vary, I don't have any measurements of temperatures or pressures,
etc... However, since your working at the University... Perhaps you could
ask some of the professors doing research to keep it in mind and mess
around whenever they are needing to rotovap DCM off something anyways.
Perhaps someone else can see this effect as well. I did take a cell phone
vid, but I didn't think to put a black sheet of paper behind the condenser
for contrast at the time, so you can't really see the effect. I have since
graduated so I won't likely have a chance to try to reproduce the effect
for some time.
Any ideas?
Travis O.
Austin, TX USA - Monday, August 15, 2011 at 05:41:20 (PDT)
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I was electrolysing a copper-ammonium hydroxide\sodium nitrate solution
with electrodes of graphite(-) and aluminum(+). Voltage:1.5V. At certain
time the solution was full of aluminum(?) crystals and I have no idea how
this happened. Aluminum doesn't becomes metal on aqueous solution! (Sorry
for the errors, my english is bad.)
Odair B. Costa <mestre.oda.1 at gmaildot
com >
Brazil - Monday, March 21, 2011 at 10:30:19 (PDT)
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Sapulpa, Oklahoma, 1990/1993?
About fifteen years ago, I had a short experience with time-lapse in my
life. I would get home from school at about 3:15 on average and my parents
would get home from work at about 4:30. I was about fifteen or sixteen at
the time. I would clean the house up a bit and then approximatly around
4:15 I would walk down the drive-way and cross the street, jump the always
locked gate and go into the woods for a cigarette. My parents would have
tortured me for days if they knew I smoked, which is why I would go to
extremes to be private about my habit. Besides, if my step-dad ever found
any cigarette butts anywhere on our acre of property, it would have been
my butt in trouble. So anyway, I would typically walk almost an acre more
down to the pond and then hang out for awhile until I heard the truck pull
into the drive-way up at home.
It was in the middle of summer when I decided to explore the rest of the
80 acres behind the pond. Walking a narrow path through the weeds, I kept
walking until I found a side path to the left that split into two
different directions. I took one of them, smoking another cigarette of
course, and after what seemed like twenty or thirty minutes later, I found
myself back at the origional path. I had gone in a good size circle. I
headed for home, worried that my parents would be bothered by my absence
without leaving them a note. When I got to the drive-way, I could see that
they were not home yet. When I got inside the house, It was around 4:10. I
felt that this was strange because I had been gone for longer than twenty
minutes, I thought.
Anyway, I tried the path again the next day, this time wearing a watch
and making sure that the time on my watch matched the time on the v.c.r.
before heading back out.
It was half an acre down to the road, another acre atleast to the pond,
about five minutes of normal walking past the pond to the path. Two
cigarettes at about five minutes per cigarette and then the walk back
home. My watch always said that I had been away from the house for no less
that 45 minutes, but the v.c.r. would still be reading no less than a half
an hour less than my watch. After almost a week of doing this cool
experiment, I decided to bring my mother along with me, minus the
cigarettes. She actually agreed to go, plus, she had (still has) a gold
Mickey Mouse watch that is guaranteed to be very accurate to some set
standard of time. (???)
We got almost all the way there when my mother told me that she was going
back home, complained that it was way too cold outside. It was hot as hell
to me, but whatever. So I went alone and this time only lost maybe fifteen
minutes of time. This portal eventually closed off but it was probably one
of the coolest things of the unusual I have experienced.
Jeff
Anderson, MO USA - Friday, December 22, 2006 at 09:27:33 (PST)
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Gearturbine - Atypical Thermodynamic Technology Submission
http://gearturbine.260mbdot com
YouTube Video; Atypical New * GEARTURBINE / Retrodynamic = DextroRPM VS
LevoInFlow + Ying Yang Thrust Way Type - Non Waste Looses
http://www.youtubedot com/watch?v=0cPo9Lf44TE
GEARTURBINE -Atypical Combustion Turbine Engine, -State of the Art, -New
Thermodynamic Technology, -With Retrodynamic "Dextrogiro vs Levogiro"
Effect, is when the inflow direction moves is against [VS] of the circular
rotary dynamic, When the inflow have more velocity the rotor have more RPM
/ because push the single turbine with the planetary gear, (an a example
is like to move the head to the side of the strike hit) / RPM Rotor Move
VS Inflow Conduits Way /ACTION VS REACTION / Front to Front / Velocity vs
Velocity, making in a simple way a very strong concept of power thrust, a
unique technical quality. -Wide cylindrical shape dynamic mass (continue
Inertia cinetic positive tendens motion / all the motor weight is goin
with the power thrust direction), -Non Waste, parasitic losses
form-function engine system for; cooling, lubrication & combustion;
-Lubrication & Combustion inside a conduit radial position, out way
direction, activated by centrifugal force Fueled Injected, -Cooling in &
out; In by Thermomix flow & Out by air Thermo transference, activated by
the dynamic rotary move, -Increase the first compression by going of
reduction of one big circumference fan blades going to, -2two very long
distance captive compression inflow propulsion conduits (like a digestive
system) (long interaction) in perfect equilibrium well balanced start were
end like a snake bite his own tale, -Inside active rotor with 4 pairs of
retrodynamic turbos (complete regeneration power system), -Mechanical
direct "Planetary Gear" power thrust like a Ying Yang (very strong torque)
(friendly loose friction) 2two small gears in polar position inside a
bigger shell gear, wide out the rotor circumference were have much more
lever power thrust, lower RPM in a simple way solution, to make possible
for a some innovative work application (cars/land). -3 Stages of inflow
turbo compression before the combustion. -3 points united of power thrust;
1- Rocket Flames, 2-Planetary Gear & 3-Exhaust Propulsion, all in one
system. -2two continuous circular moving inside combustion (rocket flames)
like two dragons trying to bite the tail of the opposite other. -Hybrid
flow system different kind of aerolasticity thermoplastic inflow
propulsion types; single, action & reaction turbines applied in one same
system, -Military benefits, No blade erosion by sand & very low heat
target profile. -Power thrust by barr (tube); air sea land & generation
application, -A pretender of very high % porcent efficient power plant
engine. -Patent; Dic 1991 IMPI Mexico #197187
Carlos Barrera <gearturbine at yahoodot
com>
Monterrey, NL Mexico - Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 10:31:17 (PDT)
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Does a person emit a unidentifiable energy when sick?
Does only people with certain dna markers emit when sick?
I take infra-red thermo images of people, but when I find someone sick of
cancer or a serious illness it will show up or I will see angiogenesis of
the veins ahead of time. As the person is photographed by my camera, it
affects the electronics and I have stop shut it down. This phenomenon
happens all the time when people are really sick or about to die, they
emit a blast of energy or static discharge and affect all electronic. I
have been trying to document this affect. I have been associating this
with an imbalance of nervous bundle or of just plain sick body. I am a
good scientist, and a good licenced thermographer and accept the data as a
mystery. The data does not lie, only those who do not know how to
interprete it.
I will report more of this effect as I collect data.
sincerely,
Lazaro
LAZARO gonzalez <lazg655 at peoplepcdot com>
CUTLER BAY, FLORIDA USA - Friday, June 18, 2010 at 16:49:14 (PDT)
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Hello,
My Name is Tony Devencenzi.
I am a retired instrumentation designer and an amatuer scientist. for the
past five years I have been doing a research project on a discovery that I
made involving naturally occuring ultra low frequency waves and have
performed many experiments that have lead me to postulate a theory that is
based in the belief of an aether. In short, I have discovered naturally
ocurring ULF waves with a frequency of 0.5Hz down to .01Hz, that are
detectable by electrical, magnetic and scalar means. These waves are
everywhere and are imprinted on the earth's electrical field and also upon
the power grid. They have the ability to penatrate shielding. I am
offering all of my research, plans for the instruments I have constructed,
details of experiments, virtual instrumentation software that I have
written, schematic diagrams, etc, to anyone who is interested. I have
just put all this with download ability, on my new website
aetherwavetheory.com I am not
selling anything, just want to share my work.
Thanks,
Tony Devencenzi
Tony Devencenzi <frostalarm at att
dotnet>
Bakersfield, ca USA - Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 09:20:08 (PDT)
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Hello Everyone --
Several weeks ago I began research and experimentation on the development
of a software program and kit that when downloaded and installed would
allow the user to conduct true time travel, essentially turning their home
computer into a Time Machine. I am now very near completion of the kit for
market, but weeks ago when I was still researching my theory and had not
yet even developed a project plan or prototype - I began to get what I
call "time ripples"; distortions in the local time-space continuum. One in
particular was really cool, but rather disturbing too.
I was taking a break from reading up on the theory behind psionic time
travel, and I was sitting under a tree outside my favorite coffee house on
the corner of Haight and Masonic in San Francisco. I was wondering idly if
I would ever crack the theory of time travel and succeed in physically
traveling through time. At that moment, myself from approx. 25 years in
the future came strolling down Haight Street ! I knew instinctively and
with complete certainty and no doubt INSTANTLY that it was me from the
future - and as the other "me" from the future came abreast of my tree I
wondered in my head: "Surely 'I' must know that this is 'me' sitting here,
I wonder if the 'I' from the future will be able to resist the temptation
to turn and look me in the eye?". At the exact moment I thought that
thought, the "me" from the future, less than ten feet away - turned and
actually smirked at me !
I guess my Time Travel Software Kit works !
SINCERELY -- Christopher Doyon
Christopher Mark Doyon
<MagusChristophorus
at gmaildot com>
San Francisco, CA USA - Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 14:19:38 (PDT)
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BETTER PHOTO VISUAL IMAGE EFFECT!!!!!+ added bonus experiment SEE YOUR
OWN BRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
I read the article here about the photo image effect in a dark room when
turning off a lamp. I had actually found a much more dramatic example of
the effect years ago when showed by a friend. Same setup as far as a
COMPLETELY dark room. No light is a must. A room without windows is
preferable. Now take a camerra flash. the older kinds on film/rather than
digital camerras is the best kind. Perhaps a VERY bright strobe light may
work if you can set it to flash only once and then be turned off. Anyway,
so you are in a completely black room. Flash your BRIGHT flash source,
and......after a few seconds you should see a very intense image of
whatever was in your field of vision when the light went off. This is a
VERY cool illusion because wherever you turn your head the image will
stay with you (almost like a heads up display). Try standing up and
looking down at the ground before the flash. Then get on you knees and
continue to look down-it seems like you are really high up and looking
down a long pit! BONUS TRICK LOOK AT YOUR OWN BRAIN!!!!!!!!!! This one is
even cooler!!!!!!Reverse your sight and look inward toward your own
brain!!!!!!(actually you are likely seening the blood vessels in your
eyes!) I learned this one from a very old mysterious book called
Etidorhpa, which had lots of weird science and Freemasonic overtones!!
Hold a small LED lightbulb (in the book they used a candle but this is
much too difficult as it depends on getting a much more subtle angle from
farhter away-plus they didnt have LED's during the time of the
book-1800's) and get yourself into the same ultra dark room used in the
experiment before. look directly forward and stick the LED light right up
to your bottom eyelid touching it if you have to (LED's are not hot) Get
just the right angle it should be shining not into your eye but more
accross it)and suddenly you will see images of the inside of your eyball
VERY WEIRD AND WONDERFUL EXPERIMENT!!!!!! I believe that this works by
causing the lens of your eye to become a mirror.
brian hornbuckle <bhornbuckle75 at yahoodot com>
Kokomo, IN USA - Monday, May 18, 2009 at 06:28:07 (PDT)
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Codeis
Is a method for finding complex single are true numbers within dates are
groups of other normally forming numbers. Any number from 1 to 9 would be
conceder a true number use the following method.
Let??s use today??s date we would write the date in long form only using
numbers.
03 28 2009
Now we would break them down in a way we can find the true number.
03
?? 31
28
> 60 > 6 + 0 = 6
20
?? 29
09
X = (A+B) +(C+D) + (E+F)
I have found that the numbers follow a order from date to date.
For a example take the doom days date 12 21 2012 and work your way back.
This method has helped me understand they way things work, everything is
about numbers, in reproduction it takes two 1+1 = 2 whatever the numbers
point two are mean I do not know. A person can use this system for codes.
I do for much of the work that I do.
When using Codeis remember the rules
1. Add are subtract each set of numbers until there are only one
digit.
2. Always use the format, never add are subtract over a double digit.
3. The last and by most the important, always question your logic and
what you see is never the answer.
Thanks for reading,
Denny R Randall
moriartydean at ymaildot com
Denny R Randall <moriartydean at ymaildot com>
mount airy , nc USA - Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 12:39:30 (PDT)
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I frequently have trouble with 'hearing' things people nearby say,
before they say it. I also Have a tendency to intuitively know things, and
it quite often gets me in trouble.
Shock things, hear clock ticking incessantly, need help to stop sounds
including ticking, preaudation and humming coming from ground of several
spots. Am partially blind, but hear both real and mental sounds, thinking
in sounds, unable to visualize at all. I and the Western Atlantic
Intelligence of Auditory Mysterious Phenomena Board would like to know
about your dealings with the hum, if such on-line sites are avaliable and
our research may be of usage to you. No emailing adress or internet site
is available, regretably, though.
Max Rip, WAIAMP board
MA USA - Friday, September 26, 2008 at 18:23:39 (PDT)
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"Possible anti-gravity effect in high tension AC 60Hz field"
I work in a high voltage metrology lab, during some not too routine
testing we experienced some effects that I nor my boss had ever seen. We
were testing some toroidal surfaces for breakdown voltage using a 450KV PK
AC transformer. After the test (only went to about 300KV) I decided to see
how dust, dirt and wads of "dust bunnies" may lower the breakdown voltage.
I scooped up a handfull of crud from the floor of the lab and placed it
around the bottom toroid. At about 280KV I noticed the hairy dirt balls
actualy lift off the bottom, slowly move to the top, then back and forth
with a changing time constant, it actualy hung in between the conductors
several times. I would expect this during a DC tent but this is really
strange for an AC field. Perhaps some rectification was happening but we
were stumped.
I have not repeated this test but plan on doing a few controlled
experiments.
Fred M Schroeder <burnerdaddy666 at yahoodot com>
Campbell, CA USA - Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 14:52:44 (PDT)
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Working with a glow discharge tube, had serviced 2600 volt, 10 amp
power supply. Decided to start web cam and record if anything weird as I
tested the power supply and discharge tube.
Unusual striations in the discharge tube formed and maintained quite a
while. These were Roundish and three of them formed. Initial size was
about beach ball, then all 3 reduced to basket ball size. It is strange
that striations form at the ~ 4.5 to 6 amp region, this is uaually where
arc discharges are, in bthat current range.
Striations are usually below 100 milliamps and I never get striations that
last at arc currents.
This time I did.
Pressure in tube is ~ 85 to 120 millitorr (sea level pressure is 760
Torr)
Current at time of ball formation 4.5 through 5 amps DC.
Voltage across both ends of tube is 185 volts (after arc mode
established)
Initial plasma starting voltage is 1100 volts DC.
Tube height is 73 inches, with end seals included.
Inside diameter of tube is 22.5 inches
Gas mixture is standard air, simply pumped down to lower pressure.
Why did the 3 balls form when usually flat striations form and why at such
high currents?
One of the functions of this tube is glow discharge to determine what
currents, at what pressures, cause a "sprite" to glow at a given light
level.
Please see the video at the link provided:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6744007463935127935
It would be nice to get some input as to why these "balls"
formed and I sure am glad I captured the rare event on video.
The movie has a sound track and once I saw there was something strange
going on, I went with it started making comments and reading off pressure
and current readings, while leaving the camera on the display I was
looking at.
The tube has been used on National Geographic Naked Science
in the episode "Lightning" and also filmed for Discovery Science channel
in the new series (26 by 30 minutes episodes) "Weird Connections" expected
to air November 2008.
Any input feel free to email me directly.
Mike Valente <induction (at) comcastdot
net>
Brockton, MA USA - Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 16:02:35 (PDT)
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i was board so i connected a low power electric moter in series with
the secondary of a 240v to 18v transformer and connected this to a 12v
battery so a pulsed DC current was produced, i then connected a neon
light(the type found in switches) across the primary windings on the
transformer and powered the circuit up and as expected the neon light lit
up but, then i noticed that one of the wires from the primary of the
transformer had become disconnected from the neon light and to my
amazement the neon light was still lit up even though the neon light was
unly connected to the transformer by a single wire! wtf!?!?
JM <jonathan-marsh(at)fsmail(dot)net>
UK - Friday, March 21, 2008 at 04:20:26 (PDT)
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Hi Bill,
This is NOT actually a weird science report - I just wanted to know
wnether there was any follow up, blogs or comments on the weird science
report on your website by Chris Eccles (1998)on the spinning magnet disk?
(his email is defunct) I am constructing one of these at present hoping to
duplicate the effects, so any additional info would be most useful. Any
reports on effects will of course be reported to you, even if
negative.
Many thanks,
Regards,
Andrew
Andrew King <xxxa42sking at talktalkdot netxxx>
Biggin Hill, Kent UK - Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 04:12:28 (PST)
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OVER LOOKED SIMPLICTY
The phenomenon of life. There is nothing so amazing as to blow my mind
then sheer existence. The age old question. Why should any phenomenon be
so hard to believe when existance of self awareness is so mind boggeling.
But, it is boring. We just except it. It's normallity. What's the point in
life? All things living must die. Is the ultimate goal ever lasting life
and happiness? What's the point in telling others about strange
occurences? Is it to vindicate that there is more to life. That time thing
with the clocks is a wierd feeling. My experience was always checking and
the clock would say 2:02 or 5:25 or 1:51 or 12:12 etc.. doesn't happen
much any more. Had a cool phenomenon happen in the same town as the movie
"phenomenon" was filmed. I was expiermenting with radio transmission and
was transmitting a musical instrument to several portable radios within
close proxcimity. The feedback started creating an angelic like music on
its own dependent on slight movement in the feedback range; complex
musical patterns with perfect resonance and harmony occured. It was a lot
like surfing. Invisible waves like the waves of the ocean but with
electricity. I still think the strangest of all is the fact that I have
the capacity to sit at ponder right here right now in the phenomenon of
life that won't last forever. THINK ABOUT IT!
Bill Snomer
USA - Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 03:35:47 (PST)
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Hi,
Here is a very strange thing!
Human face immortalized in Cretaceous flint.
http://www.humanfossil.se/fossilface.htm
Also published in Mu a Japanese magazine http://www.gakken.co.jp/mu/,
S8int Ooparts:
http://www.s8int.com/page25.html
Mystery site:
http://farshores.org/a07ffm.htm
and more.
Contact me if you want link-exchange or use my material,
Chris
Chris <beforelucy at yahoo.se>
g?eborg, sweden - Friday, November 16, 2007 at 12:27:11 (PST)
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WHILE OBSERVING WATER BUBBLES ON SILVER WIRE INWATER WHILE AKING
COLLODIAL SILVER. BEAMED A RED LASER POINTER AT BUBLES N THE WIRE. BUBBLES
'FLEW'OFF MAYBE A WAY TO INCREASE HYDOGEN PRODUCTION FROM WATER,OR MAYBE
IT CAN BE USED SOMEHOW IN COD FUSION RESEARCH? THANKS DR. EDSON ANDRE'
JOHNSOND.D. ULC. HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA USA.
DR.EDSON ANDRE' JOHNSON D.D.ULC <TESLAEDSON1 at AOLdot
com>
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. USA - Saturday, October 06, 2007 at 13:55:57
(PDT)
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I have been experimenting with a Hodowanec type receiver,
However I have managed to modify this circuit so as to
become a very sensitive receiver to UHF pulses of magnetism.
The sensor can detect the build up of magnetic pulses 30 minutes before
the X-ray flare occurs.
If any one would like more information please E-mail me
Director
The West Australian
Radio Observatory
Chittering
22 June 2007
waro at westnetdot com.au
Brian Sallur <waro at westnetdot com.au>
west australia australia - Friday, June 22, 2007 at 00:01:58 (PDT)
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Watching red blood cells moving without a microscope.
Several times, moments after waking up with the sun in my face, but with
my eyelids still closed, I have see my own red blood cells moving along
within a network of fine tubes. The cells move along in pulses as the
heart beats and stop for moment between each beat. Where there are Y
junctions in the network, you can even see the cells going their different
ways.
If you wake up when there is a bright light, keep your eyelids closed,
head very still and watch carefully. I am sure others must be able to see
this but I've not heard about it anywhere. The phenomena may last for a
few seconds.
Best regards, Eric.
Eric Johnston <eric at satsigdot net>
Chelmsford, Essex UK - Friday, May 04, 2007 at 14:33:11 (PDT)
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I found something I consider a bit strange while experimenting with
high voltage and charging a 5 inch dia. pipe that is about 12 inches tall.
I was using this for an antenna while I was experimenting with power
transmission using high voltage and high frequency. The pipe was insulated
by sitting it on an empty cardboard box and was being charged with at
around 100,000 volts. There are a cool breezes that flows all around the
pipe similar to an air conditioning vent blowing on it from nearby. Very
noticable and unmistakable. Turn off the voltage and it stops circulating.
This can also be used to put out a burning match if you bring it close.
After some investigation I found that a guy has put in for a patent on
this to cool welded joints in airplane wings that cannot be left to cool
on their own because of the materials under the welded area that will be
heated and destroyed. This effect evidently effects properities of the
transfer of heat within a metal and could be used to improve heat
transfer.
Aubrey Sims <asims1956 at yahoodot com---*>
Ga. USA - Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 12:57:40 (PDT)
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I'm a college student majoring in physics.. after some research decided
to build a bajak temporal flux generator.
Well I built an exact replica to spec and got some truely strange and
bizzare results..
I devised an expiriment where I combined the magnetic (field this device
seems to produce) with accelerating kinetic energy.(my car)
So after accelerating to 100 mph I took the freeway offramp. I felt
like I was on some sort of drug, just like john bajak described a
subliminal and accoustical roller coaster.
I remember not really liking this feeling a very strange and eery feeling
like mild confusion ..A feeling like the world I was in was a complete and
utter illusion.
The town seemed different somehow. I noticed little things like signs
and billboards looked old and faded.. and all the cars in traffic were
like what you expect to see a few years back. but nothing significant.
The year and date are all the same. So I decide to go to Wal-Mart to
check up on the latest available technology for sale. I pull into the
parking lot all the while feeling like I had to drive fast It was an
almost immutable urge..I park in the side of the lot next to some
undeveloped woodlands (I'll post the rest of my expierience later...the
library is closing)
philip Galindo
- Friday, March 09, 2007 at 18:02:29 (PST)
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I've been reading the list of reported 'weird phenomena' - I know what
a lot of them are, if that would be interesting to readers.
eg. Kaleem Ali (29th March, 2005) - a classic St Elmo's Fire
description
N Sherman (29th January, 2002) - as they said themselves, the second
rainbow is caused by the light from the sun's reflection in a pool of
water. A great sighting of a rare phenomenon.
Yokohama (19th July, 2002) - a 'glory', or halo, around the moon. Quite
common, caused by light fromt he moon being refracted by the water
droplets or ice crystals in thin cloud covering it.
Randal-on-the-road (2nd May, 2002) - St Elmo's Fire (those meteorologists
must have known that....!)
Paul (11th May, 2001) - as above
Richard Pearce (16th April, 2001) - a light pillar, I suspect (if it was
cold).
Dennis Deveckx (July 25, 2000) - sounds like good light pillars.
Phil S (March 23rd, 2000) - sounds like a reflected rainbow as above.
Chris Canning (May 9th, 1999) - a classic 'glory'. I'm amazed the crew
said they'd never seen one before as they're very common from
aircraft.
Randy Bornorst (2nd January, 1998) - a fogbow
Michael Hoffmann (10th October, 1997) - a hole punch cloud (caused by the
water droplets being seeded into ice crystals, which drop down out of the
cloud, and form a neatly-edged circle of cloudless sky).
Paul Whitehorn (1st November, 1996) - Alexander's band. Google it!
Bill (27th September, 1996) - holepunch cloud again
Hope this helps!
Alex
Alex Freeman <alex.freeman at bbcdot co dotuk>
UK - Tuesday, March 06, 2007 at 09:21:24 (PST)
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Yesterday evening I went to dinner with my wife's cousin and her
husband. During the evening the husband demonstrated a strange ability he
has whereby objects both metal and plastic 'stick' to head head rather
like metal to a magnet. After much experimentation and even washing his
head at one point I must say I am confused. I can feel a very slight pull
when I get an objects very close to his head. I have photographed him
with various things 'attached' to his head but of course I realise that
these prove nothing on their own. He thinks there's nothing really
strange about it and sees no reason to consult a doctor etc. about it.
Anyhow, it seemes unsual enough to send to you, I also sent a text message
to a friend who studied physics more than me but he reacted by suggesting
it was either friction or a hoax by me.
Alan Dalmon <alan.dalmon at hispeed.ch>
Switzerland - Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 07:53:59 (PST)
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The glue on some envelopes, the ones that stay tacky. (not the ones you
lick)
As you pull it open you see a blue flash, you can do this again and
again...
There ought to be a section for anomalous glows.
John Berry
Auckland, New Zealand - Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 11:18:49 (PST)
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Dear Jakash
I tried your watch 'watch'.
I guessed the time was 10:57 PM.
My alarm clock said 10:56 PM and my cell phone displayed 10:58 PM.
I will continue to develop this.
Mary
Mary Robertson <mmmmmaryatvanat yahoodot communication>
USA - Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 23:16:11 (PST)
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In Mechanical engineering - Met E 442 I think - the prof mentioned
deforming iron using fluctuating high magnetic fields without raising
temperature. My phenomenon is this - Peterbilt truck on highway with
entire cab, engine block and all deformed (actually reduced to the surface
of highway)sheet metal all wrinkled, paint still on metal, no smoke or
fire or even a trail of oil on highway - it looked as though this semi had
experienced the phenomena mentioned in Met-E class but no name or
descpriptive equations given - any help would be much appreciated.
Kristen Hansen <etek.indat hotmaildot com>
USA - Friday, December 08, 2006 at 14:16:15 (PST)
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Maybe not too weird. Remember that guy from (maybe) Britain that
said on TV that he had made this special thermal insulation that was
cheap, anomolously high-temp resistant, and made with "things found in a
grocery store" (he said with a twinkle in his eye)? He would take his
white goo from a mayo jar and paste it to an egg, wet. Then torch the hell
out of it and the egg was fine. He said that military were looking at it,
and they said they couldn't crack what it was made of even with
spectroscopy of whatever kind. Never heard anything more about it. Well, I
may, or may not, have made some on my porch in college. OK, so
here's what I was mucking with that evening on the porch: A propane torch
(cheap and cheesey Bernz-O-matic like), a [probably alumina, white as
snow] refractory brick tray used for electronic parts manufacture like
ferrites and ceramic resistors or some like stuffs, "20 Mule Team" Borax
[Hydrated sodium borate], Table Salt [sodium chloride], Sodium Hydroxide
[aka: lye, caustic soda, sodium hydrate], Flint Glass Rod (and/or) Soda
Glass Rod (and/or) Borosilicate Glass Rod. I was just making
molten balls of stuff and one of the balls of stuff crystalized before my
eyes and would not melt. This would be no biggy, but for the fact that
when I took it to my metal sculpture class and torched it with the
oxygen/acetylene torch and the little ball of stuff would not melt even
after I had a pool of this [probably alumina] firebrick under the flame.
Never have I seen anything hold up to a flame like that before or since. I
feel like an idiot, but I don't know which items from the above list I had
mixed together and I just blew it off for the longest time. If it
really is similar to what the ol' Brit was making I see why he had the
twinkle in his eye... everything I used can be found in some form within a
grocery store. Be it the Borax from the launrdy section, the "Red Devil"
Lye, the various glass types from everything from light bulbs to pickle
jars, Table Salt, or even if the alumina brick got in on the reaction, it
can be found floating around in one or a hundred fixtures of machines and
lights. Being that I have almost everything for this test and
absolutely no content on my website, I hope someone beats me to it and
finds that it is a useful substance. Poke me in the forehead if you think
I should do it and post my results on my site. Thanks fer
listening, RR
Ryan A. Reynolds <ryanreynolds
(at sign) cheesemagnet (dot) com>
Lincoln City, OR USA - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 at 02:15:56 (PST)
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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)
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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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Weird Transformer Effects
All,
One you can try at home easily and it's paradoxical and bizarre!
I have a toroidal transformer with a primary and secondary. Turns ratio is
irrelevant but primary is 6V to secondary 240V (ie 1:40). Now Imagine this
setup (this is done with relays so every goes back to high impedance,
o/c):
Primary to a voltage source:
________
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Secondary shorted by relay:
____________________
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Assume that on primary side we have given enough time for transients to
die away so that steady current in primary. We then short the secondary.
FACT when we do this, no effect on primary side (as you'd expect).
WITH SECONDARY STILL SHORTED. Disconnect primary current. What happens?
You'd expect to see a back-emf in the primary? Hang on flux links the
secondary too, so you'd see one there too, right? FACT: nothing!!
So what happens when you eventually unshort the secondary (the primary is
o/c)? (Eventually could mean seconds, days, weeks, months, years ...)
FACT: You see a back emf in the primary!! (Finally!)
A Quick Thought:
1) IF we did see a back emf when we o/c the primary we could violate
c-of-e because we flux link two coils. Imagine the primary(s) is an LC
tank circuit setup to give us the pulse. We then un o/c our secondary when
the current in the primary is steady and pick up that change in flux when
we o/c the primary. NATURE won't let us do that.
2) If when we unshorted the secondary we saw no back emf in the primary,
where did our electrical work go in setting up the primary current??? It
can't have disappeared - another violation of c-of-e.
3) Okay, we saw a back emf. That implies a flux was present => a current
was flowing. Hang on, the primary is open circuit!!! The secondary is
shorted, there must be current in the secondary BUT the secondary is
totally passive (no current sources). WHAT THE HELL KEEPS THE CURRENT
GOING! (especially if we unshort days after!)
If there is no current, there is no magnetic field.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What generated our back emf? I've been talking to some engineer freinds of
mine - there is some stress in space apart from the usual em fields.
Please, can we have an answer. Can anybody make use of this phenomenom.
This is so easy to replicate.
R. C.
London, Britain - Wednesday, April 21, 1999 at 14:41:28 (PDT)
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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 the 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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+-----o o----/\/\/\/--+-----+------+
| S1 | | | |
| G1 | | \
+ --- + | --- -/-> G2
----- B ----- XXX P1 \
--- C1----- --- |
----- | | o
| | | \ G3
| | | o
+----------------------+-----+------+
B1 27 volt source
C1 1200 uF 50V cap electrolytic
P1 piezoelectric transducer (value uncrit.)
S1 charging switch (SPST)
G1 25-ohm rheostat (future control)
G2,G3 switch (SPST) and 1M-ohm potentio-
meter 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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