Ground Balance Theory

[Ferric Toes]

This one makes me wonder...

Many of the Earth minerals are ferromagnetic to some extent. The nuclear fission and radioactive decay reactions cause the Earth to be positively charged and in thirst of electrons. Einstein's photoelectric effect aids to this by knocking electrons into, eventually, ionosphere, leaving the Earth crust even more positively charged. The charges are distributed on the surface of the Earth so as the Earth rotates, the current flow builds up the magnetic field of the Earth. This is also helped by ferromagnetic minerals, and there you have it: the Earth magnetism.

Too often we hear about a changing polarity of Earth magnetism due to some bogus ideas of the magnetic iron core ... heated well past the Curie temperature, and thus by no means magnetic.

According to this, the only way for a magnetic pole to change direction is by rotating a whole crust against the axis of rotation.

How does this theory apply to the Sun which has a huge magnetic field? Also, I read recently that this field is about to reverse, and does so every 11 years. I can't imagine that the direction of rotation of the Sun's surface changes direction as we would notice the sunspots going the other way.

Eric.

[Tepco]

One more issue, now it is some 2 billion years too late for natural fission to occur, due to isotope ratio change, some having shorter decay time than others. With ratio now present in ore, human made machine and graphite or heavy water moderator is needed, but long time ago only large enough pile around meter thick, and some groundwater was able to sustain chain reaction (based on uranium, other suitable elements, actinides are long gone even then). When it starts, heat generated will evaporate water in ten's of seconds, or few minutes, stopping the reaction, then after hour or so, after everything is cooled down, it will start again, cycling like some fission powered geyser. Strong evidence exist that something similar happened on many places on earth. Only this, by no mean can generate any significant charge on surface. Everything released, ionizing radiation and particles will recombine at very short distance even in air, most will never reach it. No natural process of this kind, or any decay can generate energetic enough particles to ever reach ionosphere, only very complex human made machines can.

[Tepco]

Back to topic again, post #450
This is interesting, mostly expected and can have more impact on GB design than it may appear at first glance. Even more interesting is that effect is noticeable with relatively weak ferrite magnet at that distance, field is same order of magnitude of what typical detector can produce. Some saturation, reducing viscosity is expected, question is what causes increase in some samples, some nonmagnetic particles or strange grain size or something? It will certainly saturate too at some point, worth trying with stronger rare earth magnet, some 5 times stronger field and closer. I have to admit my knowledge of geophysics goes only as deep as shovel go, no idea. More investigation on this can be more than useful.


First, some sort of B-H curve measurement, can be done with viscosity meter and some sort of Helmholtz coil and variable bias. More important, relaxation time needed to reach normal viscosity value when field is removed, I suppose can be from uS to several seconds range. Different setup is needed for this, but results can be important. Eventual GB use may incorporate applying DC bias field and measuring response with and without it. Maybe not literately DC, but bipolar pulsing with different width of one polarity, then compared to symmetrical. For this, relaxation time can be important, to establish proper timing. This is all speculation, not idea, no data no ideas. I actually have something similar made, but never tested, bifilar coil, one part separated for DC bias or to combine two different pulsers, but this is still just “gedanken” experiment without any practical result. Hope soon will have more time for this, but then most important issue probably will be lack of proper samples more than equipment itself.

[Davor]

Guess it would be interesting to hear the Barkhausen noise of these samples. Such easily saturable material just can't relax smoothly.

[Aziz]

G(t) = a*(t+p)^b


This magnificiant formula has been challenged again and it survived it the third time. And we have found a true anomaly in the early timing (which screws the G(t) as well *LOL*).




Aziz

[Aziz]

G(t) = a*(t+p)^b

Still provoking the gurus (& wannabe scientists) in the business.

Now eat this again:
G(t) = a*(t+p)^b

*LOL*

Aziz

[Dave J.]

Looking at it from a different angle, I like P(0) = e exp (-mu)

Ref: "Technical Notes on Ramp Metering" David E. Johnson 1977

Back in the early 70's I was having a ball playing games controlling real freeway traffic in real time. By "real time" I mean standard deviations on the order of 2-3 seconds, something that the degreed engineers back in HQ who had no real freeway to use as an experimental lab had insisted was a fundamental impossibility. In the mid 70's, two successive Calif. governors gutted the department. The last I heard, CALTRANS real-time traffic control science has yet to replicate what we were already doing back in the early 70's.

--Dave J.

[Aziz]

Looking at it from a different angle, I like P(0) = e exp (-mu)

Ref: "Technical Notes on Ramp Metering" David E. Johnson 1977

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--Dave J.

Hi Dave,

would you elaborate what do you mean by P(0) = e exp (-mu)?
I have no idea, what you mean.

Cheers,
Aziz

[Dave J.]

Probability of zero equals e to the power of the negative of the mean. It predicts the probability of no fish today. The calculation every fisherman makes before casting a hook into the water, if his wife is expecting him to bring home something for dinner.

So, Aziz, what's your equation?

--Dave J.

[Aziz]

Probability of zero equals e to the power of the negative of the mean. It predicts the probability of no fish today. The calculation every fisherman makes before casting a hook into the water, if his wife is expecting him to bring home something for dinner.

So, Aziz, what's your equation?

--Dave J.

That's a nice story and theorem.

Well, my equation is the "General VRM Theorem"(c)(r)(tm) *LOL*

Aziz

PS: Robby_H (aka Rafferty) is very quiet these days. *LOL*

[Dave J.]

Kinda figured it might be something like that. The foundation of the Aziz Equation is the Fish Equation.

--Dave J.

[Aziz]

Kinda figured it might be something like that. The foundation of the Aziz Equation is the Fish Equation.

--Dave J.

Thats a fishy explanation. *LOL
Aziz

[Dave J.]

But an accurate one.

Good to see you enjoying the thread again.

--Dave J.

PS: I was building working ground balancing PI's nearly 30 years ago. Alas, I didn't recognize the potential of the technology for gold prospecting, and we dropped the ball. We've done pretty good with VLF, though.

[Paul99]

Thats a fishy explanation. *LOL
Aziz

But true of you Asif. How is the "Worlds Worst Ground Balance" going? We haven't been hearing much of it lately.

Re Robby_H, I understand that on his last visit for a check-up, his doctor told him he has to stop laughing as much as he has been. So, to avoid the cause of his laughter he has had to avoid reading posts from blokes like you, Dud and Majik Smoke on the various forums. I understand there has been some patent he read recently that has caused him to relapse into further uncontrollable laughter. I am hoping that at some time in the future he can regain a straight face.

[Aziz]

But true of you Asif. How is the "Worlds Worst Ground Balance" going? We haven't been hearing much of it lately.

Re Robby_H, I understand that on his last visit for a check-up, his doctor told him he has to stop laughing as much as he has been. So, to avoid the cause of his laughter he has had to avoid reading posts from blokes like you, Dud and Majik Smoke on the various forums. I understand there has been some patent he read recently that has caused him to relapse into further uncontrollable laughter. I am hoping that at some time in the future he can regain a straight face.

UFox,

you're merely jealous, that the real "General VRM Theorem"(c)(r)(tm) hasn't been found by Mr. Candy.
You know, I still have the WBGB. Who really else could have it?
Oh man!, a lot of scientific papers were written to the garbage bin.
A lot of patents were written to the garbage bin too.

Aziz,
the real inventor of the "General VRM Theorem"(c)(r)(tm)