Keely recognized the duality of nature, which we now call motion, with aspects of space and time. The fascinating bit is he also recognized the "rest" condition of UNITY--the Unit datum--NOT zero, also the basis of Larson's work. I find that rather impressive, considering it was 70 years BEFORE Larson's first publication.
"Nature works with a dual force, but at rest she is a unit." --John W. Keely, 1885
Given Keely may have been working from the yin perspective of his own Reciprocal System, which RS2 includes, I started looking for other hints as to what his etheric vapor might be. He had hundreds of pages of notes, but like most inventors of the time, they almost all disappeared with his death. But there are surviving pieces, and a lot of commentary from others that have examined his work.
I found these clues:
- Etheric vapor is transmitted through solids, not air; his transmission wire was made of silver and platinum.
- Etheric vapor is blocked by blocks of glass (silicon dioxide). He used these to prove that there was actually something flowing through the wires.
- He initially extracted etheric vapor from water, remembering that water in 1885 was uncontaminated, unchlorinated well or spring water, which has a substantial amount of trace minerals in it--and per the definitions used by Viktor Schauberger, was "living" when coming out of the ground.
- He refers to ether as "polar energy" or "vibrational rotation," which is the inverse of Larson's charge (rotational vibration).
- Etheric vapor moves at extremely high speeds--faster than the speed of light.
- The particles of the vapor are too small to be observed, even with the strongest microscope.
- The vapor particles cannot be measured in space directly, only by their affect on a vibroscope.
- The refined vapor pressure was measured in excess of 50,000 lbs/in2
- The pressure/distance relation of etheric vapor was linear: 20000 at 1333 1/3 the diameter of nitrogen, 10000 at 666 2/3 the diameter, 5000 at 333 1/3...
- Being spatial, Cosmic motion is transmitted through solids and blocked by vacuum (atoms are temporal, and space/time constitutes motion, whereas vacuum is space, and space/space is NOT motion).
- Silicon dioxide, silicon 3-2-(4) and oxygen 2-2-(2) have large electric spatial displacements, so it would act as an insulator to spatial motion (s/s is not motion).
- Water, as an inanimate structure, provides no clues--but Viktor Schauberger's work on Living Water adds much... all a "living system" (Larson's life unit) is, is an aggregate composed of a material and cosmic motion. Living water can therefore contain either c-hydrogen--valence being +/-1, the same as m-hydrogen or c-oxygen--valence of +/-2, same as m-oxygen, so chemically, one could not tell the difference (at least not in 1885). His vapor extraction process could be extracting the cosmic atoms of that living water.
- Schauberger's work talked about "charging water" through a cycloid spiral--an implosion--where the vibration of water was set to rotation. Same concept as "vibrational rotation."
- The lower bound of cosmic speed is the speed of light--cosmic structures all move faster-than-light, just as Keely's vapor did.
- Cosmic structures are non-local and waveforms (vibrations), so they cannot be directly observed.
- Cosmic structures have locations in time, not in space, and we cannot observe time directly--only the effect it has on space, such as a vibroscope.
- Pressure is energy per unit volume (t/s4), and the volume of a cosmic structure is in time--not space, so the temporal aspect of pressure would increase, and the volume (being of inverse density gradient) would decrease, giving the net result of extremely high pressure.
- The pressure/distance relation would be affected by the 2D region of cosmic motion; I'm not sure of the consequences of that, but Larson did describe similar effects in Universe of Motion, regarding intermediate and ultra-high speed motion becoming planar and linear in the space of the reference system.
I'll keep digging and see what else comes up.