On Aug 31, 11:03*am, John Smith wrote:
On 8/31/2010 8:03 AM, Art Unwin wrote:

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Regards
Art Unwin.....KB9MZ....xg

Art,

You waste your words on me. *I will only cop to a few things:

1) I believe the ether is real and it exists about us, in us, everywhere.
2) All our "real matter" was ripped from the ether and is just ether
existing in an altered state, "this all" is not "normal."
3) Although we can't "see" the ether (yet), we can make guesses from
its' apparent properties. *One important one, it is a superconductor.
EMF can, apparently, transverse it forever with no "loss" (some will
mention a "red shift", or "slowing", here.)
4) "Discovering" it will boost our economy, flood our markets with
uncountable new devices exploiting its' properties and raise mans'
scientific knowledge to unfathomable heights ...

Beyond that? *Who knows ... I think, at this time, your ramblings are
just as valid as any I could make, about it, the ether ... since yours
sounds so "crazy", I hesitate to go into such depths ... sorry ...
remember, "fools" (well, Einstein did) run where brave men fear to go ...

The "double helix", as it involves antennas, is only a trick to me.
And, use to coax certain actions/behaviors from an antenna. *It is
physical in existence and can affect antenna fields and other properties
... it is no more profound or magical than a gamma match, capacitive
hat, etc., sorry ... at this point, this is all I want to know.

Regards,
JS

John the question you raise with regard to the tank circuit is very
valid. But when a superconductor is used as a radiator removal of the
time varying current is consumed by losses
Let me propose the following, presently it is assumed that the super
conductor resistance goes to zero which embraces perpetual motion if
losses disappear. What if the current rose to the surface
like my antenna which is determined as the "Meissner effect". The
material is being bypassed
and replaced in the circuit by resistance traveling along the surface
which gives you the analogy of the long pendulum. One has to be wary
of embracing perpetual motion as in itself it destroys all we have
determined in physics.