| Subject: RE: Positive energy, 
      negative energy and classical EM  Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:17:56 -0600 
 
        
        Dear Dominique, 
        
          
        
        Thanks for the kind 
        words, and keep thinking!  During all my university courses, no 
        professor made me aware that the foundations of physics (and 
        electrodynamics) have some serious problems, and that there exists a 
        literature on it.  One just had to discover that oneself, much later. 
         
        
          
        
        The EM theory taught 
        to electrical engineers does have many flaws.  Many excellent scientists 
        (such as Feynman and Wheeler) have pointed out some of these flaws.  
        Slowly there are some corrections being made, and of course better EM 
        models have long been developed for particle physics.  These models seem 
        now to be entering a new time of interest and development, as scientists 
        such as Barrett are doing with SU(2) and Evans is doing with O(3).  
        These are non-Abelian electrodynamics, which are higher group symmetry 
        EM models.  In these models, many electrodynamic things are permitted 
        that are not permitted in the Maxwell-Heaviside-Lorentz model used in 
        electrical engineering. 
        
          
        
        The reason a 
        transformer is not a COP>1.0 system is because the field generated from 
        the secondary by pumping the secondary circuit's total current back up 
        through the secondary's back emf, back-couples to the primary and forces 
        the same back emf and energy dissipation in the primary.  In theory, if 
        that back-field coupling from secondary to primary were eliminated or 
        reduced, the transformer itself would perform at COP>1.0.  The MEG does 
        that in one manner; there are other methods also.  E.g., if one builds a 
        true negative resistor and uses it plus a diode in series, to "shunt" 
        some of the return current to the secondary back to the high side 
        without passing through the secondary, this reduces the back-coupling 
        and can enable COP>1.0.  Years ago I filed a patent on that, but let it 
        lapse.  But a differential negative resistor will not do it.  It 
        requires a true negative resistor.  The old point contact transistor, 
        e.g., was capable of being adjusted and built so as to produce true 
        negative resistance.  But making them was always rather an art than a 
        science, and that type of transistor is not well understood even today.  
        We really should be experimenting with it and re-developing it, 
        optimizing its negative resistance capability to enable COP>1.0 EM 
        circuits. 
        
          
        
        We hope to see some 
        major changes in the way they teach the EM model to students in 
        universities. 
        
          
        
        Best wishes, 
        
          
        
        Tom Bearden 
        
          
        
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