ENERGY SCIENCE UPDATE - A Message of Vital Importance/ by Harold Aspden
This website presents a deliberately concise summary account of something of vital importance to the future of mankind. The world needs a new source of energy, one that is not an exhaustible commodity subject to powerplay as between nations. Yes, one can dream and then awake to say this is impossible, but I urge those with the necessary skills to heed what I have to say in my three messages below.
First, however, let me introduce myself. My name is Dr. Harold Aspden. I am retired and elderly but have had a lifelong scientific interest in fundamental physics relevant to the energy theme. My 6-year university education in U.K. was at Manchester University and Cambridge University (Trinity College). My 33-year working career in U.K. comprised 9 years with English Electric and 24 years with IBM. Though having high technical qualifications (see below), being interested in the specialized field of protecting inventions pertaining to electrical engineering, I became a Chartered Patent Agent and later a European Patent Attorney. My last 19 years with IBM were spent as Director of IBM's European Patent Operations. This was followed, in my early retirement, by 9 years as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Southampton University and thereafter my scientific interest has been a private pursuit evidenced by my writings as on this and my related websites. My formal qualifications are: B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Eng., F.I.E.E., F.I.Mech.E., C.Phys., M. Inst.P., C. Sci., Wh.Sc.
Message No. 1: Physicists have come to recognize that there
exists a quantum underworld alive with energy and permeating all space.
However, their related research aims merely at probing experimentally
the spectrum of elementary particles that have a transient existence as
a product of that energy activity. The reward they seek is recognition
should new particles be discovered and, by their properties, reveal
connections with other particles that help in formulating a new theory
or verifying an existing theory. Sadly, they do not see that quantum
underworld as a potential source of energy that we can harness. Nor
have they understood how most of the energy shed in creating matter
formed the elementary particle which bears the name proton and which,
together with the electron, constitutes the hydrogen atom.
There is also a secret they have yet to fathom. It is the effect of
creating a radial electric field centred on electrical charge around
which that quantum underworld can develop a state of spin that causes
it to shed energy. In the presence of a radial electric field set up by
an electrically charge body, whatever constitutes that quantum
underworld that permeates all space shares a motion like that of
sequence dancers who keep in step with one another as they move around
the dance floor, a synchronous motion, which, in the presence of that
radial electric field can only be held if a secondary motion develops
around an axis centred in that radial field.
How else could the Sun spinning about its own axis have come into
existence? Here we have gravity attracting hydrogen atoms and pulling
them so closely together that ionization occurs, meaning freeing some
electrons from their proton bonding, and so, because the mass of a
proton is very much greater than that of the electron, creating a Sun
having a body that is positively charged sitting within an outer shell
of negative electron charge. Two free protons experience a mutual rate
of gravitational acceleration that is 1836 times that experienced by
the interaction of two electrons. The body of the Sun, therefore, has a
uniform mass density and a uniform positive charge density enclosed
within a compensating negative charge at its surface. This is because
gravitational compaction forces balance the expansion forces
attributable to electrostatic repulsion. It further means the presence
of a radial electric field within the body of the Sun and, in turn,
owing to the effect of this field on the space medium of the quantum
underworld, this induces a state of spin accompanied by release of
energy from that medium to feed the kinetic energy of that spin.
In depth analysis of the physics involved, meaning the effect of the
resulting radial electric field on that quantum underworld, then allows
one to calculate the resulting rate of spin and thereby understand how
the solar system was created.
So, if the reader is a physicist, here is the way forward and full guidance on this is to be found on my parallel website www.aspden.org or in a new book of mine entitled Creation - The Physical Truth,
that will be published in the near future. However, if the reader is
not a physicist but has the technological aptitudes of the
university-trained electrical engineer then it is Message No. 2 below
that warrants attention.
Message No. 2: If it were possible to generate electrical
energy by tapping an omnipresent medium it is surely to be expected
that the occasional natural phenomenon might already have hinted at
this possibility. Consider, therefore, the thunderball, a glowing
spherical object sometimes seen, especially following a lightning
storm. It appears aethereal in the sense that it can move unimpeded
through matter, yet remains an enigma, an unsolved mystery of record in
the annals of science. Lightning strokes are high current discharges
which, as electrical engineers well know, can develop a 'pinch effect'
squeezing the electron-carried current into a filamentary flow within a
cylindrical channel of positively charged air. That implies a radial
electric field, a pulsating radial electrical field if the discharge
surges, a sure recipe for something to happen that could form a
miniature Sun, the thunderball. So when we look at a thunderball we are
looking at a natural phenomenon that has drawn energy from that quantum
underworld of space, energy which is then dissipated, but energy shed
by a process we can surely harness, once we understand the physics
involved.
Scientists lacking the necessary imagination do not seek to understand
how the thunderball is created and so they seldom write about it. So
here we have something to think about. It is Nature's message telling
us: "Produce a radial electric field, one that pulsates, and you can
develop a spin that taps energy from the quantum underworld of space."
As engineers, however, we need to be practical and, if possible, we
should avoid trying to replicate a phenomenon that involves powerful
electric discharges, if there are better ways in which to proceed.
So now I come to my primary theme in this Message No. 2. It is a brief
survey of a few of the claims of record that have declared a mysterious
energy gain and have features which I see as relevant to what has been
said above. In particular I draw attention to the research findings of
four different pioneers in what has come to be termed 'The Search for Free Energy',
this being the title of a really excellent book by Keith Tutt,
published by Simon & Schuster in 2001. Three of these are described
in considerable detail in that work. I now ask you to keep in mind my
reference to a radial electric field as I mention each of them below
and do realize that electrical structures of cylindrical form are a key
feature.
Nikola Tesla is famous for his research concerning
electromagnetic induction and high voltage solenoidal transformer
apparatus (Tesla coils) and he is said to have demonstrated an
automobile which derived its power by tapping energy from space. He did
not disclose its design details and died leaving us with a mystery.
Tesla coils comprise large solenoidal windings concentrically mounted
and operate with high voltage pulsations between their cylindrical
forms which must produce a pulsating radial electric field between
those windings. So, although electromagnetic induction effects are the
primary focus of attention, there is here scope for the electrical
action described in Message No. 1 above. Tesla may well have stumbled
experimentally upon a way of tapping energy from space, but without
understanding the true underlying physical process.
Dr. Henry Moray, a pioneer of the 1920-1930 era, demonstrated
something which merely needed a kind of antenna, a wire connected from
tree tops to earth via electrical apparatus in the boot (trunk) of his
automobile. It is said that the latter included several capacitors and
that a kilowatt level of power was generated. In this case the
automobile merely carried the test apparatus for demonstration at a
location remote from a built-up area and any electrical power line
interference. No doubt Moray was seeking to follow in Tesla's footsteps
by drawing energy from the Earth's electric field, known to be measured
in hundreds of volts per metre. It is likely that those capacitors were
of Leyden jar type configuration, that is cylindrical in structural
form, and that the wire linked to tree tops tapped charge at a kilovolt
voltage level. However, the output power claimed could surely not have
come from that source. Therefore one must assume that Moray used that
treetop voltage input merely to prime the voltage across his capacitor
electrodes, whilst incorporating some special feature in the operation
of his electrical circuit that gave access to the energy of the quantum
underworld. Capacitors having concentric electrodes of cylindrical form
will, when charged electrically, have a radial electric field in the
space between the electrodes. Several capacitors coupled together could
give rise to oscillations of charge as between the capacitors and so
lead to a pulsating radial electric field. Yet though demonstrating as
possible something that should not be possible, a mysterious inflow of
energy able to illuminate several light bulbs, Moray could surely not
have understood the true physical process that was feeding energy into
his apparatus. Again I see this as relevant to what is stated in
Message No. 1.
Stan Meyer demonstrated apparatus that included sets of
concentric tubular electrodes enclosed in a cylindrical container
filled with water, the electrodes being fed by high voltage (5kV)
pulses. Combustible gas was generated, a mixture of hydrogen and
oxygen, the burning of which generated far more heat than could be
accounted for by the electrical energy input. Energy was being tapped
as if from nowhere unless the source was the ambient medium of space
itself. Here there was a pulsating radial electric field and electric
charge oscillating between different components in Meyer's apparatus.
Meyer did not offer any useful explanation as to the physical process
underlying what he could demonstrate but persisted in conveying the
message that the invention was wonderful and talking about a
multiplicity of applications such as powering automobiles, ships etc.
This is the project not mentioned in Keith Tutt's book. As for the
Tesla and Moray projects Meyer's research was a U.S. based activity. It
did, however, attract the interest of a British Admiral, Admiral Tony
Griffin who was concerned with the impact of new technology upon the
marine industries. Griffin witnessed Meyer's demonstrations and was
interested in its development. Indeed an article on the subject
mentioning Admiral Griffin and entitled 'Free Energy for Ever'
was published in the January 1991 issue of the U.K. magazine Wireless
World. The importance of the article was evident from the fact that the
Editor of that magazine was the author.
Paul Baumann, a member of a Christian community in a isolated
valley high in the Swiss Alps has constructed working free energy
devices which have been demonstrated to visitors. The first working
prototype was relatively small and included a pair of glass Leyden
jars, concentric capacitors. Keith Tutt in his book devotes 30 pages to
this subject. The high voltage needed to prime the capacitor operation
was generated by a Wimshurst machine driven by the electric power
generated. The community has, however, kept design details secret. In
spite of such information as is available the underlying physical
process governing its operation remains a mystery. Yet I can but feel
confident that what I say in my Message No. 1 provides the answer.
Message No. 3: My Message No. 1 has drawn attention to the
physical process by which the vast amount of energy needed to create
the Sun was extracted from the quantum underworld that permeates all
space. My Message No. 2 has drawn attention to the reported efforts of
just some of the several energy research pioneers who actually
demonstrated apparatus that, contrary to accepted scientific
principles, drew energy from a mystery source. My Message No. 3, based
on recognizing the common physical feature can but be the suggestion
that technology for generating our power needs from the hidden
underworld of space has to be possible. Accordingly, I will now outline
what I see as the basis on which to build the ultimate power generating
device that harnesses the physical principles presented in Message No.
1.
Being 78 years of age and no longer having access to university
research laboratory facilities, I can but leave it to others to take
note and, hopefully, prove me right. If proved right then the world
will benefit and the impending energy crisis will be avoided. Hopefully
also, the scientific community might then be willing to accept my claim
as to how the quantum underworld deploys its energy into proton
creation and is active in producing the phenomenon of gravitation. I
know of no other theory that has been able to derive theoretically the
value 1836.152 of the proton/electron mass ratio. I would like to see
that recognized as my contribution to man's knowledge.
Consider a capacitor formed by a pair of concentric cyindrical
electrodes, something many of us remember from the school physics
laboratory, the Leyden jar. However, the capacitor structure I have in
mind is very much larger and has to be operated at a quite high
voltage. When that voltage is applied between the electrodes electric
charge is displaced in the underlying vacuum medium located between
those electrodes. A commensurate amount of electric charge is thereby
held in place on those electrodes, a negative polarity charge on one
and a positive polarity charge on the other. Given my claim that this
is accompanied by 'vacuum spin', aether rotation, which has imported an
equal amount of energy owing to a quantum phase-lock as between the
charge of the vacuum medium, we have the energy gain we seek to exploit.
The problem, however, is that, with this simple capacitor
configuration, the only control parameter available is the reduction of
the voltage between the electrodes. This will shed energy within the
circuit of the apparatus used, the outflow of electric charge at the
voltage difference merely delivering energy equal to that originally
supplied by our voltage source. The added energy imported from space is
merely dispersed by the 'vacuum spin' slowing down but expanding beyond
the bounds of the capacitor electrodes as it conserves its angular
momentum. The energy imported from the quantum underworld of space has
no way of enhancing the energy output of the capacitor circuit and so
is left to dissipate itself and eventually be reabsorbed by that
quantum underworld that pervades all space.
However, now consider a concentric electrode capacitor having a third
cylindrical electrode intermediate the inner and outer electrodes. Here
we have a control parameter other than the voltage between the
outermost and innermost electrodes, because we can wonder about the
voltage of the central electrode whilst retaining the other voltage
difference at a constant high level. In fact, by keeping the latter
voltage difference constant but varying the voltage of the intermediate
electrode we can decrease the capacitor energy of one half of the
overall capacitor as that of the other half decreases. The imported
energy shed by one half of the overall capacitor can then contribute to
the action that energizes the other half and thereby induce
oscillations from which energy can be extracted and deployed as a power
source.
One needs two such capacitors having their central electrodes coupled
through a load circuit in order to capture the 'free energy' inflow and
get it to do useful work rather than being dissipated. An inductance in
the coupling circuit can determine the oscillation frequency and, since
the energy inflow increases with frequency, this should no doubt be
well into the kilocycle region. The figure below is a simple schematic
diagram of the electrical apparatus that I have in mind.
So my Message No. 3 is what I may describe as a 'thought experiment',
one that I cannot verify myself, owing to my age and lack of
facilities. I therefore can but record my thoughts and hope that others
will prove me right and not wrong.
The capacitors depicted in the figure should have their electrodes
spaced so that the capacitance C as between their central and outermost
electrodes is the same as the capacitance C between their central and
innermost electrodes. Suppose that the outermost electrodes are
maintained at a voltage of 20,000V relative to the innermost
electrodes. This means that the two central electrodes will be at an
intermediate voltage which we expect to be 10,000V in the absence of
oscillations. However, as with any ever-active electrical system, there
will be minor voltage fluctuations affecting the central electrodes. So
we may ask what happens if the voltage of the central electrode of
capacitor A decreases owing to electric charge being shed by the inner
capacitance C but gained by the outer capacitance C. Think about that
for a moment. You will see that it implies reciprocal action in the
opposite sense by capacitor B, as current flows from A to B via the
central inductor coupling. Yet no net current flows from the 20,000V
power source.
Now, of course, common sense backed by our scientific training assures
us that this system can but keep its equilibrium without those minor
voltage fluctuations building up in some way. Yet, if we heed Message
No. 1 and keep in mind Message No. 2, there is a question we must ask.
If current does flow through that central link between A and B, one
half of A and one half of B both shed energy and so release the
imported 'vacuum spin' energy, if such is present. This occurs as other
halves of A and B have to gain energy and as angular momentum of the
imported 'spin energy' spreads into the other sections of the
capacitors. The question then is: "Does that imported energy escape, as
it does for the two-electrode capacitor configuration, or might it be
retained and so augment the action?"
I submit the answer can only be provided by actual experiment. If the
energy does escape then there is nothing further to discusss. However,
if some of that energy is captured then we can expect an escalation of
oscillations in that inductive link and so can then say that a new
source of energy has been discovered. Those oscillations will be a
function of the capacitance C and the inductance of the load circuit.
Given a high frequency and a high voltage a significant level of power
per unit volume of capacitor structure will be produced. If power
output at a level commensurate with the claims of Tesla, Moray, Meyer
and Baumann results the world's energy future is then assured. A
pollution-free energy resource powered by the quantum underworld of
space will be at hand wherever we are on body Earth.
Harold Aspden, 19th March 2006
Source: http://www.energyscience.org.uk/message.html