sci.physics.electromag

Bill Miller wrote:
> Shown below is the text of a news release that I just received.
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> Hamilton, Ontario - September 24, 2007 (Note - this is a pre-release copy)
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> McMaster research engineer Professor Natalia Nikolova, and her husband
> Robert Zimmerman, have verified the existence of a new type of radio wave
> called the Vector Potential Wave. This wave was first predicted in 1880 by
> British mathematician James Clerk Maxwell
I would like to see that paper !!
Maxwell died in 1879 !

>, but had never been directly
> detected until this summer here on McMaster campus in the Communications
> Research Lab. Dr. Nikolova comments, "One of the most enigmatic predictions
> of Maxwell was his concept of the magnetic vector potential. Until recently,
> most engineers believed it was only a mathematical concept with no physical
> reality. Now, more than 125 years later, we have realized a magnetic vector
> potential detector which allows measuring the wave at any distance from a
> microwave antenna".
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> Nikolova and her husband have been working on this development nearly 2
> years. Zimmerman feels that the new discovery will ultimately lead to radio
> and television transmissions which do not require energy. On a more
> fundamental level, he added, "Maxwell was correct all along".

> The novelty of the discovery is that while the transmission requires very
> little energy, the reception of the wave requires that an active battery
> operated receiver be used. This is distinct from usual AM radio
> transmissions, where much energy is radiated by the transmitter, and the
> receiver can be a 'crystal set' with no battery.

> The detector developed by the research team is a plasma device looking like
> a fluorescent tube which displays super-conducting properties for radio
> signals.
This is also what tesla said.

> Nikolova is quick to add, "The device is at room temperature but
> acts like a superconductor, as predicted by Fritz London in 1930".
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> Nikolova and Zimmerman plan on submitting their results this week to the
> research journal THE PHYSICAL REVIEW of the American Physical Society. >
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> It sounds to me like they are attempting to use a variant of the
> Aharanov-Bohm effect for communication. I'm not familiar with Fritz London's
> 1930 work.

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> Comments?
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> Bill
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