(Vroom!)
All right! I'm going to do a little demonstration here
of a Plasma Ball,
inside of this test enclosure,
and the enclosure has a platform underneath
that's able to rotate.
This is the Plasma Globe we have mounted to a motor...
So, what we are going to do, is have this Plasma Ball rotate at reasonably high speeds...
2000 to 3000 rpm we hope to get out of it.
And, we want to observe what's happening inside,
inside the plasma ball during that time, and see if there is any unusual
things that take place due to the centrifugal force
being exerted on it.
So, I guess that's about it. I'm using this TQi
controller, which is normally used in little race cars,
and we'll be controlling the rpm's of the
motor; this is a Subaru blower motor underneath here
powering the apparatus. Okay,
let's fire it up and see what happens! Lights off!
Lights off...and safety glasses on!
My safety glasses are all fogged up; I can hardly see a thing!
haha
Let's see if we have some action here...here we go...
okay, it goes around; we know it goes around, so far so good...
it's nice and smooth. We'll take it up
to maybe 500 rpm, something like that...
okay, I'm going to stop it and see
what happens. The motor is stopped. You can see the
plasma keeps rotating for a revolution or two.
Let's try taking it up to maybe 1500 and see what happens...
That's actually 1600, 1500...
there now,
It seems stable; I'm going to take it up to 2000...
"Oh, look at that!"
There's 2000
It's an interesting structure in there, that's for sure...Bring it down again,
and see what happens...it rotates a bit...
and otherwise, seems to look pretty much normal. Yes.
Pretty much the same.
Um, just gonna...Pardon me?..."Full speed!"
Full speed ahead! Let's give it a go, while the apparatus
is still working!..."in one piece"...Yeah!
Yes, I'll just give it full speed and...I going to make sure...
everything is still screwed together properly here... "Maybe hold it
because it starts walking a little bit on the table." Yeah, we should
have it bolted down, as Mr. Keshe says, because it could take off! Once we
achieve levity, and that's what we're after here is levity, which we know
is the cure to gravity!
We should have this whole thing on a scale, because then we would be able to tell
if there as any weight changes.
Okay, we're gonna go for full speed...
here we go...1000, 1300...
1500, 17, 2000, 22...
23, 24, 2600, 28, 3000...
3300, 3700...
3780...
3900...
4100 rpm!
It's holding together pretty good. I'm not sure what the plasma is doing, as
I've been watching the tachometer. We're around 4000 rpm.
Nice and stable! Other than it's moving around the entire table...
the apparatus has got it's own mind as far as
where it wants to go. Wow, look at that thing go!
"Especially the beam that goes up."
Yeah, the one that goes right up in the middle, it's very determined to stay there...
it doesn't hardly quaver. There's almost a
harmonic in there. "A Pulse". Eh?
"It's like a pulse." A pulse, yeah.
It looks like wings, almost like a dragonfly.
from my point of view here...
And as we come to a close, the plasma rotates another
couple of turns before it settles out...
and it wonders, "What the heck just happened!" hahaha!
Hey there little fella, you made it! haha
And so did we, even better! ha!
And now it needs to spin the other way around for the same amount of time to make him less dizzy
I can make him go backwards, and then forwards suddenly..."Oh yeah, oh it's neat!"
"You're abusing it?" That's abusing it, probably...
It's abusing everything then.
"And the one that goes to the top, that's really something..."
"There must be a reason for that..."
Well yes, that's a good
observation. Okay, how will I explain this...
The way it is right now, the streamers are running all over, there's not
really one that goes to the top. But when I rev it up,
there's ...right now there isn't...but
as soon as the revs get up a little bit, it becomes
essentially one streamer at the top...
The faster it goes, I'd say the more intense
it gets. Yeah, Yeah. It's quite intense right now...
Now that's interesting. "It's like, less go to the side, and more go
outwards now, because it is the most stable route, I guess, to the outside.
Everything else is moving, but
upwards." ...Right, that's right...the centre of
the cyclone doesn't move, right?
"Yeah, basically, yes." ...So it might be the path of least resistance
for the ions to flow. Yeah, it is.The other ones have to spin
around, so...
That's quite funny! hehe. Hmmm, interesting, I wonder what it would look like
if hydrogen and helium were in there, along with the argon and neon?
and any other "ons" that are in there... haha!
All right, well that was a
definitely successful experiment....
Okay, I want to do a quick run here, with a close-up of the Plasma ball,
and see what kind of changes occur. I want people to pay attention to the
"central tendril" that will come up to the very top of the globe...
Let's rev it up and see how it goes here...
You can see the "central tendril" is forming...
there now, it is already formed,
at about 1000 or so rpm, which forms that central
tendril, and when I rev it up,
amazing!
I wonder what happens when
the whole thing is tilted over a bit...
Here, you run the throttle,
and I'll just tilt this over. I want to see if that tendril stays
the way it goes.
Well, there's definite geometric shapes
at certain rpms with the arms
that come off,
the arms, the tendrils that come off that centre post...
They are like little ballerinas in there!
Doing different moves, you know?
Doing the rotating dance.
Aaah, scary! hahaha!
Here, you hold the apparatus, and I'll run the throttle control now!
hahaha!
"Once the upper one is formed,
it's...it's only disappearing at lower rpms
ahh, it takes more rpm to create it ...
than..." Than to destroy it! Yes, exactly. Yes, right!
Interesting. "But it's quite logical actually, I mean everything
we saw is quite logical." "I would have never guessed, though that
those tendrils would have momentum, you know, the fact that they keep momentum...
Yes, yeah, That's what surprised me!" Yeah, true.
Okay, we have the Plasma Ball
the Plasma Globe Ball inside of our rotating
apparatus with the safety shield on, and the safety glasses are on,
and we are going to have a look at
the streamer coming off the Plasma Ball. We have a piece of tinfoil
sitting up against the globe of the Plasma Ball, inside
there, and it's acting as a sort of a ground that's attracting
the tendrils of the Plasma Ball, and
we gonna rotate it at speed, and see what happens to the tendrils,
as the Plasma Globe rotates. Okay, here we go..
Note the tendril has tended
to sort of warp to one side,
the way it's rotating. As we
rev it up a little more, we're up to about 1000 rpm,
and at one certain point,
right about....Now!
The tendril from the centre of the globe
goes straight up to the top of the globe, and
there's no other tendrills in there, and that becomes
similar and maybe even a little more intense, with high speed.
I'll take it up to
2500, for example, and it's still one tendril...
Up to full speed...
"There's something going on now..."
I want to note a phenomenon that we've also noticed here, which is
the central tendril that goes to the top right now,
as we lower the rpm, it will tend to stay there, much more
stably...it's easier to keep it going, than
it is to get it going to start with, you might say. In other words,
I can lower the rpm right down to a few hundred rpm,
here now, and the central tendril stays there
right until, probably about, well...
it's still there, strangely enough...
and now it's sort of...There! It's locked
on to the tinfoil to the side.
But to break that, I have to rev it up, now it's still stuck to the side...
I have to take it up to about a thousand rpm
to get the thing to go to the top tendril.
There it goes! So, again, we'll go back down..
again , see the top tendril is sticking, even down to
to just a few rpm, that thing is still sticking...
There. To the top
and now...There! It finally crossed over to the side..
again, where it is sparking. And again, I rev it up,
and it won't let go of that side, until it gets up to
about 1000 rpm...there, it switched over. It stays that way right to full speed.
With the globe, we've noticed
it is taking on a strange greenish glow...
and we're not sure why, and we hope we are not turning green too, from this experiment!
hahaha!
haha! Check your skin, guys! Hahaha!
Okay, I think we're signed off for that one...
See you all next time!