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Spinning Plasma Ball Experiment

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

Mrfixitrick, and lab assistants Paul and Guy, observe the visual effects in a spinning Plasma Ball at various speeds up to 4000 rpm.

We notice the gases inside the Plasma Ball have momentum. We also discover that a single plasma tendril forms at high RPM...and then tends to stay, even when the RPM is reduced to very low speeds!

This experiment was a fun way to test our lab equipment, in preparation for further experiments in building a Keshe Plasma Reactor for power and lift. ;)

Find out more about the Keshe reactors at the Keshe Foundation website: http://www.keshefoundation.org.

For the latest Keshe Reactor results and detailed information, explore the Kf Forum here:
http://forum.keshefoundation.org/forum.php

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Video Language:
English
Duration:
14:59
Rick Crammond added a translation

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