Category: Gravitational Engineering

Comment on Industrial applications of pulsed power technology

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Gravitational Engineering, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Process Monitoring and Control, Symbolic Mathematics, Visualizations Simulations February 26, 2022

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3340967_Industrial_applications_of_pulsed_power_technology_IEEE_Trans_Dielecrt_Electr_Insul/comments Thanks for gathering this together. But the last decades or so, the cost of high power, high dI/dt controls has dropped considerably – drones, 3D printers, PWM servos, robotics, vehicles. I have only looked at a few areas so far. What you sort of missed was the sensor and control and modeling side. Atmospheric
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Piezoelectric film and fiber, Three Axis, High Sampling Rate Gravimeters for Imaging Arrays

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Sun Moon Vector Tidal Signal, Visualizations Simulations February 24, 2022

https://hackaday.io/project/164550-low-cost-time-of-flight-gravimeter-arrays/log/203460-piezoelectric-film-and-fiber-three-axis-high-sampling-rate-gravimeters-for-imaging-arrays I have not posted updates here for a while, but I work on this continually. The latest possible technology that I will be trying to adapt is related to piezoelectric films and piezoelectric fibers. I have seen several efforts to use piezo disks, but not these films. As I am reading the history of these materials
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More Gravimeters, now with piezo film and single lens interferometers

Richard K Collins Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Sun Moon Vector Tidal Signal February 23, 2022

https://www.researchgate.net/project/iLens-Interferometer-towards-a-new-class-of-frugal-devices I’m interested in this research – could you provide the full-text for it? – Richard Collins I was searching arxiv.org for “piezoelectric film” “piezo film” which can be used for low cost vibration and acceleration measurements. I want to use it for a sensitive three axis gravimeter at high sampling rates. I found your
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Note to SETI – Is anyone searching the gravitational signals?

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Intelligent Algorithms, Visualizations Simulations February 21, 2022

When I was at the University of Maryland at College Park in the late 1970’s I met Joe Weber and Charles Misner and others who were starting gravitational wave detection. So I have followed it over the years. I think it very unlikely that aliens would be using the very narrow band of electromagnetic signals
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Houston Astronomical Society Presentation by Noah Pearson on 28 Jan 2022 – comments and suggestions

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Atomic Fuels, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Gravitational Engineering, Visualizations Simulations February 4, 2022

Luis, This was a good presentation. On Vimeo, watching reruns, no way to say “Thank you to the presenter” or to ask questions. We live in a world where any author’s work might be available globally for all time forward. And, it they are living, the small matter of “time” it taken care of by
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Mars and moon and space need atomic power – shipping to Mars example

Richard K Collins Atomic Fuels, Collaborative Model and Data, Gravitational Engineering, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Solar System Colonization November 4, 2021

SpaceX Starship can return from Mars without surface refilling at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u55zpE4r-_Y The engineering design and manufacturing costs for atomic power are a lot less than the cost of hauling chemical or solar panels to Mars. Do the numbers and see what it is worth to spend on lightweight atomic power units and technologies. A few ten
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Comment on Earthquake Seismograph Using Bismuth Magnetic Levitator – about state of the art in low cost gravitational detector arrays

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Gravitational Engineering, GravityNotes, Solar System Colonization, Sun Moon Vector Tidal Signal November 3, 2021

Earthquake seismograph using bismuth magnetic levitator as sensor at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIANNzpec7Y Tomislav Stimac, The “standard” still for accelerometers is the small but global network of super conducting gravimeters (SGs). They use liquid helium cooled niobium magnetically levitated spheres as the test mass. The sensitivity is about 0.1 nanometers per second squared (nm/s2) at 1 sample per second.
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Generating synthetic gravitational fields

Richard K Collins Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Gravitational Engineering, Sun Moon Vector Tidal Signal October 7, 2021

Teri, I was doing a quick study on “color from structure” and related concepts. The colors of butterfly wings are often not pigments in the traditional sense, but emergent colors because of the shapes of the molecules. What clicked in my mind is that the sub wavelength structures (the structures that produce the rather large
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Comment on Jordan Sullivan, Neutrinos and Antimatter Video

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Symbolic Mathematics, Web Policies Internet Polices October 5, 2021

Neutrinos and antimatter at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpNhPBxwfo Jordan, You can combine a particle and its anti-particle into a stable form, if you provide angular momentum. The external charge and magnetic dipole moments are effectively zero, and the particle is effectively all binding energy which has no mass. The pair can store most any amount of energy, but
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Comment on Cat and Plasma Ball, Rotating Plasma Ball, Plasma Ball and Fluorscent tubes and bulbs, iPhone

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Gravitational Engineering, Plasma, Radiation Channels October 4, 2021

Cat and Plasma Balls at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkJYY4dDdr0 The cat investigated all parts of the globe, power (it can smell the hands of the person on the plug most likely), and behavior (optical, response to touch and nearness, acoustic because its ears and nose can pick up more than our fat fingers) methodically. Its nose is rather
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