And I thought that radio emissions work like
this
Well if you like "epicycles..."
I haven't been involved with a HAM radio club since High School in 1973, so I'm a bit out of touch with that field. But it would seem you could derive near, Fresnel and far fields from the discharge of a photon from a charged electron. RF photons are LF (Low Frequency) in the RS, so they are nonlocal and behave like waves to the material observer. Looks very much like the patterns of the 2-slit experiment.
It never occurred to me to treat a spark-gap as a filter to discriminate between charged and uncharged electrons.
Also consider vacuum tubes versus semiconductors. A hot cathode converts current (uncharged) to voltage (charged).
It always bothered me that these discharges do not seem to form closed circuits, though
That is because it is monopolar electricity, what they call "cold electricity" these days, and why Tesla was safe running thousands of volts through his body. So, how can this be?
Consider conventional electricity--charge. What is charge? Simple harmonic motion. Charged electrons are a rotating unit of space, and when it captures a photon, becomes a rotational vibration--still has area and resistance.
Now consider what happens should uncharged electrons enter into a birotation. Using Euler relations, the rotations cancel each other out, and you have a pair of electrons that look and behave like a SHM. Not having any surface area, these paired electrons also do not have any resistance--they superconduct. However, they are only occupying 2 of the 3 available dimensions, so there's room for one more... add another electron to the birotation, and you're back to the rotational vibration, with resistance.
Electrons are not photons, so they cannot add to the thermal motion of an atom--hence "cold electricity" as they do not have any thermal emission--they have uncharged electron emission, which goes unnoticed.
So electron birotations can also have a charged (triplet) and uncharged (pair) state, but since the uncharged birotation superconducts, it has zero resistance and messes up the formula, V = IR, showing zero voltage and infinite current (even though that is not the actual case).
Unlike photons, the electron birotations are HF in nature (spatial), so they are local and observable as particles. When emitted from a conductor, they will break down quickly, discharging conventional electricity in a coronal display. They don't form closed circuits because you're looking at a radiative breakdown, not a conductive path.
Is there any other way to maximize production of these birotating electrons, other than infinite VSWR in a helical antenna?
The geometry of the could would be the trick. Inductance is
mass, plain and simple. Just like a crystal, the geometry of the mass determines its properties. When you wind that mass into a coil, it creates capacitance, so every coil is a tank circuit. Additional capacitance is used to adjust the frequency because it is simpler to move plates with respect to each other, than to have to keep trimming wire length. (If you ever built a crystal radio with a slide tuning coil, you know what I mean.)
The design of capacitors tends to break the ability to create birotating electron pairs, so getting the geometry right for a self-resonating coil would be the approach. That's where the tuning of the spark gap comes in.
Depending on application, you'd have to work out the pair/triplet ratio for best performance. Tesla's longitudinal waves favor the superconducting pairs. Lighting up bulbs and stuff would prefer the triplet, as they are resistive loads.
Larson lists the natural unit of a volt as 9.31146x10
8 volts (1 amu). That voltage, at unit frequency, should give you the best results.
And some atoms should have more equivalent space than others. I wonder which ones?
Equivalent space is a function of temporal displacement, so large magnetic rotation and small electric rotation gives you the most.
What happens to the resistance of birotating electrons moving through matter?
Zero resistance, as they are a SHM (dimensional reduction, as Nehru calls it).
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uncharged electrons in conductors,
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displacement current in capacitors,
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charged electrons moving in free space,
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birotating electrons moving in equivalent space of matter.
Also, aren't there stable electron triplets?
Displacement current is a misnomer. It's just additive motions, filling up the 3 scalar dimensions:
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Uncharged electron, 1D, 2 open dimensions.
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Uncharged electron (1D) + photon (2D) = 3D charged electron, full.
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CW Uncharged electron (1D) + CCW uncharged electron (1D) = birotating electron (2D), 1 open dimension.
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Birotating electron pair (2D) + uncharged electron (1D) = charged birotation (triplet), full.
Anything with an open dimension is carried by the progression at the speed of light. Full dimensions behave as particles.
Hope this is making some sense for you!