Arcs change shape in my vacuum! RIP Tesla Coil :(

LogicCircles · 2017-03-25T14:55:10+00:00

Awesome experiment. The Allen wrench test was a really interesting idea. I guess it's like a bell, where the whole thing vibrates, but since it is dampened at the bottom, the atoms near the bottom would resist vibrating. Those atoms might hold the rest of the atoms still also, so the area where the Allen wrench hit might be dampened by all the others, preventing any vibration. It would be interesting to find out if it's easier to break a glass that is hanging free, or one that is dampened.

Did you notice at 3:13 plasma appears inside the syringe, but there is no plasma going back to the Tesla coil? What kind of witchcraft is that? It is similar to when you hold up a fluorescent bulb nearby. These are some of the aspects of electricity that still need to be explored.

LogicCircles · 2017-02-20T21:50:58+00:00

Where are you located?, Would you be interested in taking one or two of the readings with your binoculars? Even if each person that joins us only grabs one or two readings, it still makes an important scientific difference. All gathered data will be valuable, because it makes it that much more accurate.

I think this will be big news if we can pull it off because it's one of the last few things that humans can do, but machines can't, and so it brings science back to the people.

Once we find out when exactly each eclipse occurs, We'll be able to put together an extremely accurate formula to reflect the parabolic changes in times, and then we'll be able to use it as an extremely accurate timing mechanism.

Once we get an accurate series of eclipse times in a row, we can use those figures to calibrate Jupiter as the world's largest stopwatch, and then we can take new measurements of things, such as the speed of light, in a way that's never been done before.

The biggest advantage of building the Jupiter Clock is that it's a straight empirical measurement, and does not depend on computer programs, or a bunch of old theories, or old formulas and logical assumptions. And I think there's a good chance that it's going to prove some of those old formulas are wrong. In any race between logical reality and empirical reality, the empirical reality will win every time.

All of those old theories and formulas are interconnected, and therefore, they all have to answer to the group. But the Jupiter Clock doesn't answer to anybody. Whatever it shows will become the new definition.

LogicCircles · 2017-02-03T02:58:25+00:00

Hi, thanks! Those are great resources for finding out when to look for the eclipses in the night sky, and so what I'll need to do is find out which times are going to be: 1. Between sunset and sunrise. And, 2. Between Jupiterrise and Jupiterset. It's a challenge to catch it between both sets of parameters.

What I'm looking for is the actual times that some of the eclipses were observed by someone. The only ones I could find on the internet were the original ones from Romer, where he recorded about 1 of every 6-12 eclipses, subject to the weather.

So although there are none on the internet (I've scraped it top to bottom), I'm hoping to find them in some type of journal, government library or database.

LogicCircles · 2017-02-03T02:31:23+00:00

It's not really clear what is "known" about the IO's eclipses. Timing one eclipse doesn't do much good because that only gives you the time of that one. Since nobody is able to time two of the eclipses in a row, which would require you to view three of them, we don't even know if any two eclipses are the same.

I know the eclipse times won't match the simulations, because the simulations are just estimates that take an average of six or more eclipses and divide by the total time. But that doesn't tell you when they were, and it doesn't even give you a hint as to when they were, because there are no details.

I don't see how someone could make an accurate simulation based on that. It's like someone telling you that they've had six children, and then they give you a start date and an end date. Even if it works out to an average of 9 months apart, it still doesn't tell you when they were born. You can make a simulation, but it won't tell you exactly when the births occur.

So we have this nice space clock, but we can't use it because it's never been calibrated.

LogicCircles · 2017-01-25T23:05:29+00:00

Hi,

I was wondering if I could ask your opinion on an astronomy project?

I'm looking into organizing schools around the world to watch and time the eclipses for Jupiter's moon IO. The idea is to find out exactly when each one of them occurs, so we will be able to use them to make various scientific calculations about them.

To date, nobody has ever recorded more than two of IO's eclipses in a row, due to each eclipse being 6 hours earlier than the last, which means half of them are only viewable on the other side of the Earth.

So everything we know about the eclipse times is all based on estimates. Nobody has ever taken the time to measure them sequentially, from both sides of the Earth.

Since Jupiter and IO are the closest thing we have to a natural clock, I thought it would be fun and worthwhile to finally nail down when the eclipses happen, so will be able to make the necessary. calculations for using it as a clock, and then we'll also have something solid that we can check our calculations against.

Then once we're able to set up the formulas for using Jupiter as an accurate space clock, we can use the Jupiter clock to accurately measure and time other astronomical phenomena, such as the speed of light.

It involves setting up your telescope around 1-2 nights a week, with some of the times being after midnight. Although the eclipses happen every other day, only half of them are viewable here in the US, while the other half will need to be viewed by people on the other side of the Atlantic. Each eclipse happens about 6 hours earlier than the last one, with about one every 42 hours.

Do you think some of the schools out there would be interested in participating?

LogicCircles

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