sci.physics.electromag

When it has been peer reviewed and accepted in a well respected publication,
then I'll believe they may have a new way of expressing Maxwell's
equations... AND then when someone builds a device that actually
demonstrates a new effect that is not explained by existing laws and has it
reproduced independently and verified to work as described, I'll believe
they actually found something unique.... BUT, I won't believe they found
something actually useful until someone in China brings out a cheap knockoff
of a radio or tv working on their principle!

Call me a skeptic, but this sounds too much like existing patents for FTL
antennas, free energy devices based on magnetic fields, the E-H antenna, and
many other breakthroughs that have been overlooked by everyone else in over
100 years of experimentation and analysis of electromagnetic effects.



"Bill Miller" wrote in message
news: $ @bgtnsc05-news.ops. ...
> 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, 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".
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> 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. 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. >
>
> 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.
>
> Comments?
>
> Bill
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