This is a cheap and easy experiment inspired by the ideas of Viktor Schauberger, who I don't give much credence to, because he was prone to woowoo. Consider this experiment as the physics equivalent of a lottery ticket. Curl G =/= 0 wins a path towards free energy.
The idea is to stuff spiraled metal electrical conduit down a garden hose, then wrap the hose around a hose reel, so that water will do some double spiraling as it flows through the hose, and hopefully induce a slight swirling motion in water in a bowl above the hose coil. I strongly suggest using some kind of flow control (see variants below).
Use 2x4's, some plywood, and some offcuts to build a platform to hold the hose reel. You may have to remove the crank and the stand. Attach offcuts to the platform legs as shown. Rest the ends of the platform legs on four pillows. Put a baking pan on the platform and the hose reel on the baking pan. Run a piece of gutter from the lowest corner of the baking pan to your sump pump.
Put a coffee table or a small platform above the hose reel, with a couple inches of clearance. Use those little felt pads to make sure it doesn't wobble at all. Put a towel folded in half on the table, and an open cardboard box on the towel. Remove the flaps for convenience. Inside the box, put a large aluminum pot half full of water.
Put an aluminum pastry tin (pic related) upside down in the water, with a steel BB in a tiny dimple in the center. Put a circular neodymium magnet on the flat end of an eye bolt and suspend the eye bolt on two strings running diagonally to the corners of the box, and secured by clothespins. Standard double stranded kite string is fine. Cover the top of the box with saran wrap. Lower the magnet into the pot until it attracts the BB enough to keep the pastry tin floating in the center, but don't lower it enough to lift the BB (that will come later). Set up a camera so that you can see the experiment from a distance. Use either a security camera mounted on the ceiling, or a mirror on the ceiling and a tripod some distance away.
Take snapshots at regular intervals. Wait for the water to completely stop moving. Lift the BB. Leave the magnet in place and secure the strings again. Keep taking snapshots for a few hours to make sure the pastry tin isn't moving or rotating. Then run the hose for another few hours while continuing to take snapshots. Let the water rest after each experiment.
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The pillows and the sprawling hose platform will isolate the table from vibrations. The offcuts will stop the baking pan from vibrating off. Offcuts attached to the legs will mean they, and the hose reel, can be removed without disturbing the pot of water. The table clearance should be enough to make it easy to remove the hose reel while keeping the bottom of the pot close to the hose. The hose reel should fit between the wider legs of the coffee table. The hose reel will leak a little. The guttering will keep your pillows dry, and will reduce temperature differences and the air currents they cause. The towel will insulate the pot further and dampen vibrations. The cardboard box will deflect air currents while also being breatheable so that condensation doesn't drip from the saran wrap onto the pastry tin. The pot has a flat bottom, is about the right size, is smooth, round for easy water circulation, and it's made of metal so it will draw stray electric fields away from its center, and it's the same metal as the pastry tin so there will be no chemical reactions causing charge buildup as in a battery.
The magnet is kept suspended above the water because it will cause a very slight depression in the water due to diamagnetism of the water, while also slightly attracting the pastry tin due to the paramagnetism of aluminum. This will stop the pastry tin from floating to the edge and resting there. The fiddliest part of the experiment will probably be stopping the pastry tin from floating to the edge. If this is a problem, you may lower the magnet some more after lifting the BB. The diagonal threads are attached to the sturdy box corners instead of the flexible edges. They stop the magnet from spinning or swinging, which would cause eddy currents in the pastry tin, and move it slightly. The pastry tin's round shape stops it from preferring any direction due to unaccounted minuscule forces. The pastry tin being upside down and having the foil cross pieces mean it will be much more strongly influenced by water motions than air motions.
The camera setup is to make it so you don't disturb the experiment with body heat, air currents or vibrations.
The memeworthy design drawn on top is so that rotation of the pastry tin is easy for the camera to see.
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There is surely overkill here, but I already tried a half assed version of this experiment and it didn't work.
The hose was wrapped around a protein powder jar, and suspended inside the protein powder jar was a Utz snack can with water and a foam toilet brush inside. The snack can was suspended from the ceiling of my friends' garden shed by a PVC pipe. A double stranded thread held the toilet brush upright. Double stranded thread is by far the worst kind for this because weight unwinds it. It really should have been 3 or 4 braided strands, or a very fine wire, but these were not available. The thread was adjustable by a nail and a hole at the top of the pipe. There was a small fragment of a mirror glued to the toilet brush so I could shine a laser pointer at it. Basically it was an attempt at a torsion balance but without the beam and therefore without any attempt to measure gravity. I was only trying to test if gravity's curl was zero as standard physics says it should be. It was... to low accuracy. The biggest problems were the thread, vibrations, and the laser going through the Utz can instead of a proper piece of glass.
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Advantages of Experiment 1 over other experiments:
Low cost
Nothing high tech
High working mass (the water in the hose)
Fun and educational for the whole family!
Disadvantages:
Woowoo
Water is much slower than plasma
At steady flow, both angular accelerations are zero, so the basic version won't work even by my own vortex drive hypothesis.
Variants:
You don't have to do all of these. You don't have to do them in order. It would be good if you started by doing all the controls. Variants generally go from easy but least interesting to most interesting but hard.
1.0.0 Try it with no conduit inside the hose (control).
1.0.1 Pull out a loop of hose and wind half the hose in one direction, half in the other direction, so that the vortices cancel (another control).
1.1.0 Steady flow with conduit, no half reversed hose (another control because there's no angular acceleration)
1.1.1 Instead of steady flow, try forcing the water through with a ram pressure pump. This will cause a surge in pressure (and acceleration) followed by a slower drop off. The surge should matter more.
1.1.2 Slow flow increase followed by sudden stop can be done by changing a few connections.
1.2.1 If any 1.1 shows results, try reversing the hose flow without reversing the hose. The water spin should reverse.
1.2.2 If any 1.1 shows results, try reversing the entire hose but not the flow. This will have the same effect as reversing only the conduit, which would be more annoying than buying two couplings and reversing the hose. The water spin should stay the same.
1.2.3 If any 1.1's show results, repeat 1.0.1 with the same ram pump configuration. The spin should be much reduced this time.
1.3.1 Use a large funnel instead of hose+conduit. Schauberger would approve. Send the water through the gutter to your sump pump.
1.3.2 Glue sand to the inside of the funnel to slow the velocity there.
1.3.3 If the funnel gives good results, reverse the spiraling direction and see if the water in the pan reverses its spin direction.
1.4.1 Replace the hose coil with a 3D printed annular disk with a water reservoir around its edge connected to multiple small, in-spiraling tubes that get narrower as they approach the center. Tubes should have spiral ridges or vanes on their walls. Print the disk as two halves that can be sealed and bolted together in many places so water pressure doesn't pry them apart. You can bolt a piece of plastic over the side that you don't want the water to spill out of, and on the water side attach a plastic screw-on Utz lid with the center cut out. Attach to a bottomless Utz jar. This will stop side spraying. Funnel the water to the gutter. The importance of the disk is that inspiraling of the tubes causes toroidal angular acceleration, and narrowing of the tubes causes both poloidal angular acceleration toroidal angular acceleration. You do not need a ram pump with this, although you could use one for added effect.
1.4.2 Reverse the disk and put the piece of plastic on the other side. The water in the pot should spin the opposite way.
1.4.3 See if a ram pump increases the effect.
1.4.4 Replace the coffee table and everything on it with a torsion balance. You will probably have to make a special stand or pyramidal structure for it. If you hang it from the ceiling beam, you will have to stop people from walking on the floor above. Repeat the controls and your favorite other experiment(s).
1.4.5 Make another disk, connect it to another hose and set up the torsion balance in the Y configuration. Make sure the disks are oriented so that their poloidal rotations aren't working at cross purposes. See >>57 .
1.4.6 Now reverse one of the disks. Poloidal rotations should now be working at cross purposes and the torsion balance should not move.
Feel free to make suggestions or ask for clarifications. I know this is a lot and this is only Experiment 1 of 7.
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>>66
I believe. That's why I reject the false dichotomy of being forced to either dismiss UFOs, or try to fit saucers and tic-tacs to known physics (protip: You can't). I'm treating physics itself as a "least-scizo fit" to noisy observational data. This approach is leading in some interesting directions.
>inb4 least schizo is still schizo
Physics is already schizo. Try making Quantum Mechanics take his meds. Everyone who tried got their face ripped off, including Einstein.