"The Realm of Possibilties..."

[silverfox]

My own personal belief is that virtually anything is possible under the right circumstances and that it is always those circumstances that will dictate whatever man-made scientific rules or laws may or may not be applcable to them, and not and never the other way around.

I've recently come across a most interesting video that deals with what is theoretically called "quantum locking" that I'm sure everyone here will also find to be something of an eye-opener because what takes place in the physical demonstration of that theory at work is quite impossible to explain or explain away in any more ordinary scientific terms.

What I'd like to point out about that is that simply because something is impossible to explain from a conventional scientific perspective doesn't mean that it can't both be done and quite logically explained from a very different perspective, instead.

http://www.ted.com/talks/boaz_almog_lev ... uctor.html

[Bill_Mothershead]

"...When the bowl is placed on the red-hot heating element, it begins to vibrate!
This vibration is continuous; and the most fascinating thing about this is that
the water will never actually boil."

Story + video at:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:_SuperB ... YoungTesla

[Bill_Mothershead]

Looks sorta like some of the "q-locking" effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyvfDzRLsiU

[Bill_Mothershead]

Levitation using graphite above magnets with NO superconductors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRDvDIq ... =fvwp&NR=1

[Furcurequs]

Hey silverfox,

I first saw a demonstration of this online over a year ago, and to be honest, I'm not sure I really like their name for the effect or their explanation.

It appears that they are simply using a layer of superconductive material (on a non-superconductive substrate) that is so thin that it is basically "porous" as far as (where) some of the magnetic field goes. There is still enough superconductive material there, however, for the wafer to be "levitated" in basically the same manner we may already be familiar with - the Meissner effect.

So, a typical superconductive levitation with a little bit of added "flux pinning" would seemingly already explain what's going on here - with, of course, some of the magnetic flux simply passing through the coated wafer rather than around it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning

If my cup were a sieve, should I call it a quantum liquid holder? ...or a quantum water channeler? (compared to quantum levitation or quantum locking)

Should I call the screens on my windows quantum light barriers? Quantum gnat barriers? ...quantum light channelers? ...quantum gnat gates?

It seems to me that they were just a little too anxious to use a modern day "buzz word".

Maybe it does help in getting people's attention, but I'm not so sure it helps them to really understand what's going on.

If I sew a patch onto my pants, would that be quantum patch attachment? The number of strands in my thread seems to be quantized, too, don't you know.

Anyway, I had already given this some thought and so the above is sort of what I'd already been thinking, for whatever it's worth.

I do also think, however, that this effect is rather fascinating and it has led me back to some questions I have had as to the continuity of the magnetic field itself - which we, of course, typically represent as continuous field lines that don't have a beginning or an end.

Maybe the way they have been represented has limited people's thinking.

...which, I guess, may actually be close to the point you were trying to make to begin with.

Anyway, take care.

Dwayne