Very interesting! I think you are unto to something.
Using the same metaphor, you have addressed the sand above the
waterline (dry sand), and the sand at the waterline (wet sand), but
what about the sand below the waterline (submerged and saturated)?
I think you will find it applies and fits too.
Later...
Chuck...
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> From: Jerry W. Decker <jdecker@keelynet.com>
> To: KeelyNet-L@lists.kz
> Subject: Re: Inertial Drives
> Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 3:31 AM
>
> Hi Folks!
>
> Went back to reread the Reynolds files and they were just as amazing as
> the first few times I read them, check out this very specific quote from
> http://keelynet.com/energy/reynold1.txt ;
>
> Dilatancy refers to the shear-induced expansion of a mass of solid
> particles. Reynolds' used dilatancy to explain the curious behavior of
> beach sand. Walking on the beach is easy on the wet sand near the water,
> but difficult in dry sand.
>
> When walking on wet beach sand, each time a heel strikes the surface, the
> area surrounding the impact appears to turn dry or white. This dry area
> appears to propagate from the point of impact like some sort of field.
> According to Reynolds (2),
>
> it is in many ways analogous to a gravitational field.
>
> When a close-packed mass of sand is subjected to a deforming force, the
> particles attempt to slide past one another. This results in an
> expansion or dilation of the deformed volume.
>
> The action of expansion or dilation can be understood by making two
> fists, holding them in front of you and placing the knuckles of one fist
> into the spaces between the knuckles of the other fist. Your knuckles
> should now be "geared" to each other with the open spaces (interstices)
> at a minimum.
>
> Now, if one set of knuckles is moved up or down relative to the other, a
> point of maximum open "packing" is reached then the top of one knuckle is
> directly on top of another. This represents the maximum expansion or
> dilation of the volume containing the sheared "particles", i. e.,
> knuckles.
>
> In sand, for the sheared volume to expand, water must flow in to fill the
> interstices. The sheared portion of sand underfoot therefore sucks water
> away from the surrounding mass of wet sand and its surface turns white or
> dry. This gearing action is responsible for the strength of the sand and
> also for the rigidity of bricks of coffee packaged in flexible plastic
> foil bags.
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> So, this gravity seepage theory, means it has to have a 'seepage'
> constant, a specific amount of time, based on the density of the
> mass (and ameliorated/influenced by surrounding masses to some
> degree)...if we can BEAT THAT SEEPAGE TIME, we can CONTROL GRAVITY and
> Inertia, just as Puthoff's paper 'ZPE as the cause of Inertia' indicates.
> A related document by Haisch is; http://www.jse.com/haisch/mercury.html
>
> I sent Hal an email describing this tendril/seepage effect which seems to
> have been proven by Aspdens experiment...he responded by saying he
> thought it was a novel and interesting concept, wanting more information,
> so that is why I posted the Reynolds files to KeelyNet, subsequently
> sending him the URLs via email so he could read the files. He never
> commented on them but I never asked what he thought, guess I should.
> --
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