Our Planet

Davis Peter

Description

Peter Davis explores the natural creation of energy on our planet, and how we harness this power in all aspects of our lives. This meticulously researched book examines many aspects of modern science and mathematics.

Sujets

• Sciences et techniques
• Earth science

Informations

• Publié par: eBookPartnership.com
• Date de parution: 02 août 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783014910
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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OUR PLANET
2014 Peter Davis
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First published in eBook format in 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78301-491-0
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Contents
Where we walk
Where we talk
Where we see
Where we eat
Where we sleep
Absolutes and absolutism don t do religion
Where we walk
I wish to talk to you today about the space we walk and talk in, every day of our lives. It is the area which has received the least attention from those who occupy it, yet it was fully understood more than three-quarters of a century ago by a few Europeans.
This environment differs totally from that found surrounding the Skylab (or should we say Spacelab?) circling our planet. In any case the two locations form the basis of the electrical energy that we use every day.
The physicist - a scientist interested in the physical features of our planet - will use words like inductive, electrostatic and magnetic. The latter is the reaction between two people fascinated by each other. If they are opposites they do not wish to part. If they are similar they repel.
Electrostatics occur when friction is found between two people not in agreement, and inductive is the mechanism of the creation of life: it is a very strong impulse.
Everything in physics has a human context. This is because it has been the observations of humans - observing their surroundings and recording what they see with human eyes. It was not until the development of the modern instruments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that there was a change in this behaviour.
The formation of science is a method by which we can demonstrate our knowledge of our surroundings: its formation shows what we know about the planet s behaviour - like rain, sun, clouds, animals, birds, insects, reptiles and fish.
It was the observation of the boundary of an animal that started the system called numbers - symbols which represent quantities. This is because humans are competitors and they wish to compare what they have with their neighbour.
An often-used phrase is Believe the mathematics when there appears to be no other solution to a problem in science. This is because mathematics has the reliable foundation of the shapes found upon the planet, and when you talk about science and mathematics you are referring to the planet Earth. It explains why the use of these two subjects has been so successful in forming the technological society we inhabit today.
When electrical energy comes from one source only it may appear in one of two forms: this is either electrostatic or electromagnetic. The two forms never appear together. If you wish to have both forms present this would oblige you to find another source of energy.
You can demonstrate and see both forms of electricity when you have two distinctly separate energy sources. This explains why two equal spheres exist in the core of our planet: they are encircled by the fluid magmas.
Draw a large figure of eight upon a sheet of paper then turn the sheet of paper through ninety degrees so that the figure of eight is lying on its side. The space enclosed by the two loops of the figure of eight is where the spheres reside: all this sits within a large circle, which is formed by the Earth s crust. Such an arrangement is the motor of our planet and the mechanism that causes our planet to rotate.
All motors require fuel. The Earth s motor is no different in this respect and the fuel is gathered daily using two magnetic fields, one at each of the North and South Poles. Each of these poles has a magnetic filter, rejecting and collecting small particles often referred to as nanoparticles.
Where have these particles come from?
In our solar system they have arrived from the star we call the sun. This star is the mechanism for changing energy into matter on a huge scale. This it throws out to its surroundings as particles of radiation.
This suggests that the area we call space is part of a large mass-transfer system of very small particles and is not empty, as once thought. It also supports the finding that the cosmos is expanding to accommodate all this additional matter, for it is the presence of matter which creates fields like those found at the Earth s North and South Poles. These meet at the equator, and a very simple experiment can be employed to demonstrate them. It only requires three buckets of similar size. It is crucial that one of these buckets has a hole in its bottom. To conduct the experiment one other commodity is required. This is water.
To begin, fill one bucket with water. Then pour some of the water from it into the bucket with a hole in its bottom into the third bucket and observe the direction the water rotates as it escapes through the hole. To assist the observation, drop a matchstick into the water: it will float upon the surface of the water and move in the direction of the water rotation.
If you commence the experiment south of the equator and then move north you will reach a point where no rotation occurs in the water as it leaves the bucket with a hole in its bottom. Here, you are at the equator (the point where the magnetic fields of the North and South Poles meet).
By moving further north you will reach a point where rotation returns to the water but in an opposite direction to that previously observed. This is because the water is acting under the influence of the North Pole s magnetic field, where previously it acted under the influence of the South Pole s magnetic field. Such a simple experiment forms the basis of the understanding of our planet. This sort of experiment can form a lifetime s occupation.
How we use the knowledge is now spurred by financial consideration and not by considering what is best for our species, though our species has grown in number more rapidly during the last century than at any time in the past history of humans.
Now we have identified that these fields exist what use is it to us to use them?
The first hands-on use occurred when it was thought desirable to install a radio into an aeroplane constructed from aluminium. This task required a radio aerial - to transmit and receive analog radio waves - to be fitted to the aluminium skin of the aircraft. On the first occasion that this was carried out and tested the radio being employed for the task received a very high electrical voltage. It was ten times greater than its normal operating voltage and occurred when the aircraft reached a height of two thousand metres.
The test was stopped immediately, for the radio failed to operate under such conditions and was seriously damaged.
The reason for this event was that which physicists describe as inductance: this occurred as the aircraft passed through the Earth s magnetic field, causing an electrical voltage to flow through the skin of the aircraft.
These findings may have caused the abandonment of installing radios into aircraft if it had not been recognized what was occurring (and a solution found). Again, the solution was very simple: all it required was for an insulating material to be fitted between the radio aerial and the skin of the aircraft. When this was carried out the radio behaved as expected when at two thousand metres and above. One small feature revealed by the experiment was that when the aircraft was stationary upon the ground or in taxi mode (moving slowly over the ground surface before take-off) it raised no problems.
This raised a question. Was there a different field at ground level or was the motion too slow to have an effect and create inductance? The answer was found by conducting further experiments and allowing newly-qualified students who had just received their doctorates in physics to do anything they liked with electrical fields, such as placing hazelnuts into a box which could apply an electrostatic field upon the nuts surfaces and allowing the nuts to remain in the box overnight, before pulling back the box s sliding lid. This released the nuts into the air at ground level. The students watched the nuts ascend into the sky - before descending back to Earth thousands of miles away.
How was this known?
People claimed hazelnuts were falling from the sky and it became a news story. One of the interesting features about the event was associated with how close each hazelnut remained to its neighbour after travelling such long distances.
An experiment that was conducted solely as a fun exercise revealed some very important characteristics about the Earth s fields and any particle (hazelnuts, in this instance) moving through them.
There appeared to be a transition zone which commenced at our planet s surface. This was the same as that found upon the surface of the hazelnut, for two similar fields push and pull against each other and repel - giving motion to the hazelnuts to be able to move away. But why did they return to the Earth s surface?
The explanation lies in the environment they had entered. This changed their condition: no longer were they similar, but opposites, causing attraction to occur - and there was no external field supporting them, so they therefore fell. The explanation said that the space we ride our bicycle though, drive our car though and run through has a different feat