Progress in the understanding of rotating magnetic systems

The collaboration with Samuli Penttinen has led to a considerable progress in the understanding of rotating magnetic systems (Searl device). His simple and elegant experiments using simple rotating magnets gave negative results and his proposal that nylon layer in the four-layered structure of cylindrical magnets might act as a charge reservoir led to the idea of constructing a concrete model for the current flow equilibrium in the system. As a consequence rather detailed picture about the electric fields and charge distribution in the system emerged. Also the idea about quantum criticality as explanation for why these experiments are so difficult to replicate became much more concrete. I attach below a brief summary of the model.

The basic hypothesis of Topological Geometro-Dynamics (TGD) is that space-time is representable as a 4-surface in 8-dimensional space M⁴× CP₂. The notion of many-sheeted space-time forced by this hypothesis implies numerous new physics effects including gravitational anomalies, the possibility of negative energy space-time sheets making possible over unity energy production and classical communications to the geometric past. An essential element is the new view about the relationship between inertial and gravitational energy. The geometrization of the classical gauge fields in turn predicts the existence of long range color and electro-weak gauge fields, in particular classical Z⁰ field, which gives rise to macroscopic effects resembling those assigned usually with torsion fields. These fields are assignable to dark matter hierarchy rather than ordinary matter. In this article the strange findings about the physics of rotating magnetic systems are discussed in order to illustrate the new physics predicted by TGD.

In the beginning of the year 2002 I learned about strange effects related to rotating magnetic systems, and the model for these effects has evolved (and is still evolving) gradually during the year 2002 via trial and error process. Several new physics effects seem to be involved.

1. Explanation for the effective weight loss

The rotating magnetic system develops em and Z⁰ charges and experiences the classical em and Z⁰ electric forces created by Earth so that the effective weight is reduced or increases (depending on the direction of rotation) as much as 35 per cent. The charging is due to the flow of electrons and possibly also exotic neutrinos from the rolling magnets to the surrounding air induced by the radial electric and Z⁰ electric fields generated by the Faraday effect inducing vacuum charge density (not possible in Maxwell's electrodynamics). The fact that critical frequencies are different for clockwise and counter clockwise spontaneous rotation implies that classical Z⁰ force and exotic neutrino currents could be present.

2. Spontaneous acceleration

The spontaneous accelerating rotation above critical frequency can be understood as being to a Lorentz torque acting on the radial Ohmic em and Z⁰ currents in rollers and roller ring. Above the critical frequency the Lorentz torque, which is proportional to rotation frequency, becomes larger than frictional torque, and spontaneous accelerating rotation becomes possible due to the positive feedback. Energetic constraints imply negative feed back and the modelling of this "back reaction" leads to a model of the system based on butterfly catastrophe in Thom's classification of elementary catastrophes and allowing also to understand the effect of the load. Rather precise estimates for the parameters result and allow to quantify the role of classical Z⁰ force.

3. Zero point kinetic energy of electrons as basic energy source

The radial ohmic current of electrons leaking from the atomic space-time sheets of rollers to the space-time sheet of environment explains the presence of plasma around the system. The ionization of the molecules could be caused by the electrons from rollers gaining keV energy as they drop from atomic space-time sheets of rollers to the space-time sheets of the environment. The associated liberation of zero point kinetic energy provides a possible source of energy allowing making the system an over unity device.

The transformation of the Lorentz torque on conduction electrons to a torque on roller can be understood if the zero point kinetic energy of the photon emitted in the dropping of electron is absorbed by the atom in the outmost layer of the rotating magnet: the energetics works for Fe and Ti layers.

The molecules of the surrounding air could make transitions to higher energy states and also ionize by emitting phase conjugate (negative energy) photons absorbed by the dropping conduction electrons. Also the dropped highly energetic electrons can cause this.

A remote metabolism based on the emission of negative energy (phase conjugate) microwave "dark" photons with large value of Planck constant absorbed by dropping electrons could be a further mechanism. The energy needed to generate magnetic walls and the kinetic energy of electronic Cooper pairs in collective cyclotron states at magnetic walls could come from the remote metabolism involving also an angular momentum transfer. The absorbed phase conjugate photons would have energy of order keV and would result by the de-coherence from dark cyclotron photons emitted from magnetic walls having the same energy but microwave wave length (this is possible because the value of hbar is large for dark photons). This would explain the cooling of the air around the system. Also a remote magnetization of J=2 electron Cooper pairs at the space-time sheets of magnetic walls could result in this manner.

4. The material composition of the Searl device

The latest progress relates to the understanding of the role of material decomposition of the Searl device (layered Nd-nylon-Fe-Ti structure. The model the current flow equilibrium for the 4-layered cylindrical structure gives detailed quantitative picture about how charge accumulates in the interiors of layers and to the layer-layer boundaries emerges. The key finding is that the small electrical conductivity of air requires in the flow equilibrium that the electric field at the outer boundary of titanium layer is amplified by a factor of order 10⁸ to a field which is by a factor of order 10³ higher than the critical field inducing di-electric breakdown in air so that the simple model fails. The huge increase of the electric field requires an accumulation of positive charge at Ti-air boundary and explains why the air must be ionized but not its mechanism based on the dropping of electrons to larger space-time sheets.

The four-layered structure is used also for the stator: this can be understood if the magnetic field of stator also rotates as is suggested by the fact that its return flux goes through the rollers. The rotation of the stator magnetic field leads to a simple model for the classical behavior of the roller system as a dynamical equilibrium in which the electrostatic torque generated by the rotation of the stator and roller charge distributions induced by Lorentz torque on conduction electrons vanishes as rollers rotate with the same velocity as the charge distribution in the stator. This picture does not however explain the spontaneous acceleration. Especially interesting phenomena are expected to occur in the small air gap between stator and roller, one such phenomenon being a formation of dark variants of ordinary atoms, so called N-atoms.

In flow equilibrium there must be an electron flow from the hollow air volume inside the stator to the air volumes inside rollers and the expectation is that a closed current circuit is formed in the flow equilibrium. This mechanism would guarantee that the positive charges associated with various magnetic layers do not grow without limit. The system however loses electrons as they drop to larger space-time sheets if the system accelerates spontaneously and the system develops a positive charge: this charge cannot grow indefinitely. One might hope that the diffusion of electrons from air could compensate for the losses so that the system could effectively act as a perpetuum mobile for some time.

5. Quantum criticality, replication, and optimization

The replication of the experiments of Godin and Roschin has turned out to be difficult. The formation of the magnetic walls means the emergence of long length scale fluctuations with coherence length much longer than the size of the system. Hence a quantum critical phenomenon seems to be in question and this could explain why the replication of the experimental findings has turned out to be so difficult. There are indeed many conditions to be satisfied. The distance between magnetic walls must correspond to the radius of the stator in resonance. This length scale also corresponds to the wavelength of dark microwave photons emitted in cyclotron transitions and the energy of these photons must also correspond to a zero point kinetic energy liberated as electron drops to larger space-time sheet.

The fact that continual di-electric breakdown is involved means second kind of criticality and the requirement that liberated zero point kinetic energy in the dropping of electron corresponds to the ionization energy of titanium atom for n=3 valence electron makes also the phenomenon quantum critical.

Perhaps the most important manner to optimize the functioning of the device would be based on the condition of quantum criticality some of whose aspects are now understood. Hall effect for the radial Ohmic current plays a key role in generating torque and this raises the question whether quantum Hall effect at low temperatures involving increases of conductivity by 13 orders of magnitude could maximize the torque.

The chapter The Notion of Free Energy and Many-Sheeted Space-Time Concept of the book "TGD and Fringe Physics" contains the newest version about the model for Searl device. See also the article About Strange Effects Related to Rotating Magnetic Systems.