Okay CBA, this is getting too freaky. Our last conversation, prior to martial arts, was about predictions and coincedences. I just wrote back to Polemarchus about the lack of original ideas. And now here you are proposing something that I have always wished to investigate further. Here is what I once thought…a few years ago I had a thought that magnetic energy could be controlled. Not only could it be controlled but it could be used to attract or to repel (nothing new here), I actually took the idea so far as to suggest that magnetism could help move rocket ships away from earth’s atleast a few hundred meters off the ground, and save them much fuel, since a majority of a space shuttles fuel is burnt in order to get it into the earths orbit. This may sound like fantasy, but I am only giving a concise overview, I got a few books from the library but couldn’t find anything that I was looking for other than the basics of magnetics. I then began to search on the internet and I found an interesting site that explained somewhat what I was looking for. I emailed the scientist (Joseph P. Hornak) and he actually emailed me back, I was very surprised, and he told me that he didn’t think anything of the sort was thought up before, but that I should keep investigating, and yada yada. Anyway, the point is that obviously it sounded like I was just a kid fantasizing about some crazy thought, but he was really sincere and wished me best. All of you who find it funny can laugh now. Anyway, he actually helped me out a lot in the end, and I have come to learn much more on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. He actually has a beginners guide to NMR on the internet for all those interested. I printed out a copy, and believe me it’s interesting stuff.
CBA, if your interested, and believe me even though it’s the beginners guide, or what he calls it; the basics, maybe you can make heads or tails out of it with no problem. I on the other hand had to read it and do further investigation, but I got the jist of it, I guess. The down side to the story is that with most ideas I have they are short lived due to life pressures, Ie. Family, friends, girlfriend, school, work, other hobbies, etc,etc. I haven’t been able to devote much time to it, but if I ever become rich I will devote my life to actualizing all my ideas. My point was, I trailed off, I wanted to give you the URL to the site so you could check it out and let me know what you think…
cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/inside.htm
Also, I made a little experiment from a basic physics book, I have a magnet in my room with three pins attached to string which is attached to the wall and the three pins sit hovering on an angle from the wall trying to reach the magnet every second of every day. The idea is, you are right about thinking about magnetism as an energy source. I think magnetism is the most abundant energy system in the universe. All matter creates magnetism of some kind…this was just a theory I believe first postulated by Newton, he gave an example of two boats cruising beside each other, and he said that if everything is set so that they travel parallel to each other - they would invariably crash into each other sooner or later for the simple reason that they are matter which attracts. Or something along those lines. Anyway, every morning and every night looking at the pins just hovering there, me being able to slide anything (non-metallic) between the pins and the magnet without disturbing the pins gives me inspiration. Watch, this will fuel the fire of those that already think I am weird here on the board.
Lastly, like you said, it is nice to hear someone having the same ideas, quite coincedently, and being able to share them.
What’s your take?