Arne Bergström
Scientor Research & Development
Essingekroken 9, S-112 65 Stockholm, Sweden
phone +46 8 695 0600 fax +46 8 695 0312
e-mail arne.bergstrom@scientor.se
The principles
behind most of the milestones of our technology - the steam engine, the
electric generator, the nuclear reactor and others - were once given to
us only in the form of some odd or minute phenomena. The phenomena were
known but their importance overlooked for centuries, in some cases even
millenia. Anyone who had observed the jumping lid over a boiling kettle
could have invented the steam engine. Electricity was known in antiquity
from sparks when rubbing amber (elektron) with fur, magnetism was
known from strange, attracting stones from Magneta in Asia Minor. The existence
of nuclear power could have been inferred from the problem of what kept
the sun shining, but the right clue was given first in the form of some
specks on Becquerel's photographic plates - again a minute effect, easy
to overlook or discard.
It is the
opinion of the author of this page that presumably we do already know many
of the cornerstones of future technologies in embryonic form as other odd
or minute effects, the importance of which we do not yet realise. Or they
may be mentioned in some scientific article as a passing remark, in which
the author tries to reconcile it with what is known. (The reader who questions
the last sentence should study the current litterature on sonoluminiscence,
which clearly illustrates the conflict between the appropriate scientific
attempt first to find a solution in known mechanisms, even if they have
to be stretched, and at the same time not discarding a phenomenon which
might be exactly such a new clue to something - maybe even experimental
evidence of a radial polarisation wave according to the electrodynamic
confinement mechanism described below.)
It is also
the opinion of the author of this page that presumably ball
lightning is another such phenomenon which may contain seeds to future
technologies. For this reason, the author has devoted some twenty years
to the study of the ball lightning phenomenon, starting in the early 70's
with the article "Electromagnetic Theory of Strong Interaction"
(Phys Rev D 8 p 4394-4402, 1973). The advent in the early 90's of
powerful computer programs for symbolic mathematics has now finally made
it possible to solve the complicated system of nonlinear partial differential
equations (Maxwell's equations plus conservation equations for charge,
mass/energy and momentum) which govern the electrodynamics of the configuration
studied in the earlier article.
Surprisingly
enough, it then turns out to be possible to perform an entirely analytical
solution of the electrodynamic equations, and the solutions turn out
to be simple analytical expressions in elementary functions. Furthermore,
the solutions can be easily visualized and verified not to be in conflict
with neither simple dynamic considerations, the Earnshaw theorem nor the
virial theorem. In view of the considerable technological implications,
the mechanism involved has first been published in the form of a patent
application.
Can Large Energies
be Stored in Ordinary Air ?
Analytical Solution of the Electrodynamic Equations
"Electrodynamic Confinement", Patent Application PCT/SE96/00966
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