Art Unwin wrote:

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Art
KB9MZ
unwinantennas.com/

Art:

1) I am not including your text.
2) You have struck upon an area I sift for clues.
3) Einstein did, indeed, realize that in those "weak forces",
undoubtedly, lies some important clues/finds.
4) Einstein even noted that the properties of the ether where/are
"unknowable", at least at the time he made such statement(s) and to this
present day.

Take an aluminum disk with a hole in the center to match an old wax
record and the hole the size of an old records. Tape a magnet to the
phonograph arm. Place the magnet/phonograph-arm on the aluminum disk and
spin it up to 78 rpm. The magnet floats ...

Magnetic fields/fluxes--electric-currents generated in the aluminum disk
are using "work energy" to float the magnet and maintain it at a
respectable height above the disk. This is not a "negligible"
phenomenon, it is used to levitate magnetic trains in Japan.

In our antennas, a certain amount of power IS doing a "like"
affect/effect. It IS wasting some amount of power in doing this ... it
is DOING "something" we are NOT taking into account.

Is this all related to the "weak forces" mentioned by Einstein? Probably.

Are these forces ignored in most if not all antenna calculations (or,
hidden in "magic numbers?") Yes.

Will new breakthroughs in antenna design result from the exploration of
these forces. I would guess that answer to be anywhere from maybe to
probably ...

And, there are even more of our "calculations" which ignore, or cloak in
magic numbers, such "abnormalities" ... like the old maps of ancient
mariners--these are areas, on these maps (antenna books, antenna
software, formulas, charts, etc.) with areas which are marked with a
peculiar notation, "In these areas lie monsters!" And they are shunned
and made "fun" of by most the members of this newsgroup; strange, if you
ask me ...

The future holds the truths (much like the X-Files! grin)

Regards,
JS