“I’ve helped several people in a number of areas, especially using arrayed magnetic systems and gold-sluicing devices. One of the biggest problems in gold sluicing is losing what miners call ‘baby powder gold’ - extremely fine particles of gold dust. By applying magnetic fields to exploit the diamagnetic nature of gold, you can actually decelerate the gold particles out of the laminar flow of the water and catch significantly more gold.”
“While I’m deeply interested in understanding magnetism purely for its own sake, there are obviously practical applications for it in everyday life. For example, I got tired of paying plumbers to come out and clean my pipes, so I designed a magnetic scrubbing device.”
“So let’s explore the conjugate nature of magnetism and electricity, which together form the foundation of everything in the cosmos. But to do that, we first have to define polarity - and certainly incommensurability.”
He shifted into describing a simpler, low-cost experimental setup.
“I discovered that the cheapest way to make a housing was by using aluminum ducting tape from any hardware store instead of expensive optically flat glass. Really, you’re only dealing with three drops of liquid sandwiched between two optically flat pieces of glass. When you press them together, about two and a half of those drops squeeze out the sides, which you wipe away. Then you seal the edges with either super glue gel or UV-curing adhesive.”
“You can cure the glue with LED lights, or even use continuous fiber optics. Those have existed for fifty years now. A brand-new one might cost five hundred dollars, but you can pick up used ones on eBay for twenty bucks.”
Then the lecture turned philosophical.
“Can anything exist if it has no attributes at all? What exactly is the ether? What is its nature?”
Someone suggested stress and strain within the dielectric and electromagnetic fields.
“No, no, no. Those are modal expressions of the ether - like water, steam, and ice. A child might think those are different things, but adults understand they’re simply different states of the same substance. So why do we constantly try to pigeonhole everything into separate categories?”
“Anything that exists must have at least one attribute. The ether can’t be exempt from that principle. Obviously, the ether must possess attributes, even if it doesn’t fit neatly into any particular paradigm.”
He compared it to light and illumination.
“There’s illumination itself - something autonomous.”
Then he introduced an analogy using the shape of an hourglass.
“In this simple analogy of the hourglass shape, we begin here with no space, no time, no polarity, no magnetic flux. Time itself isn’t actually a thing. Ancient Indian, Greek, and Egyptian thinkers all said the same thing: time is merely a measure of magnitudes.”
“Here, however, we have space and time, force and motion, which define the torus. And here we have the hyperboloid - increasing inertia and acceleration toward a null point.”
He admitted the analogy was imperfect.
“Obviously, sand flowing from one side of the hourglass to the other means the analogy can only go so far. It’s simply an illustrative thought diagram.”
“Nobody casually talks about hyperboloids in everyday conversation. You don’t walk up to your coworker and say, ‘Hey, I saw a cool hyperboloid today.’ So I had to provide a visual example people could intuitively grasp using an hourglass.”
He continued discussing magnetic fields.
“People don’t realize that all a magnet really is, is the field itself.”
He referenced the interaction between magnets and magnetic geometry, then moved into CRT technology.
“Some people imagine that a magnet charged with 2,400 volts at 12 amps DC is somehow a permanent photograph of the electrical charge that passed through it.”
“Obviously, a CRT tube is nothing more than an electrostatic projector - in other words, dielectric in nature. So what happens when we apply a magnetic field to it?”
“Let’s start with a cross pattern. That represents one pole of a magnet. Here we see a clockwise motion in the cross. Flip it over, and now we see a counterclockwise motion.”
“This is exactly what I was talking about earlier.”
Then he added a warning.
“Unless you want to destroy your old tube television set - which you absolutely can do, even if it has a degausser built in - you should be careful. And you can definitely shock yourself pretty badly too. I’ve done it a few times.”