Falaco Soliton Effect - Galaxies without Black Holes

[xraydela]

I used the search function and found only 1 mention of Falaco Solitons in this Forum but not in the context of what I want to show here.

The following link is to the website of the nuclear physicist (R. M. Kiehn) who coined the term 'Falaco Solitons' and did some exposition on them: http://www.cartan.pair.com/carfre22.htm

The (possible) significance of Falaco Solitons to EU? He states that,

...The Falaco effect is a topological effect, and therefore can appear at all scales: sub-atomic, macroscopic, or cosmological. It is easily demonstrated in a swimming pool. The phenomena gives credence to the conjecture that a Hadron is a pair of Quarks on the ends of a string, as well as other interesting ideas.

Is it possible that the 2-dimensional spiral galaxy M31 is connected by a thread to our Milky Way galaxy?

Does such a process obviate the need for a Black Hole? ...

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I gather elsewhere on his site that the significance of a Falaco Soliton has to do with its stability. One may ask, in the case of application to a galaxy, could a Birkeland Current function as the 'string'?


xraydela

p.s. Here's a link to sort of an autobiography on his home page. Doesn't have to do with EU, but his personal experiences working at atomic bomb sites is a pretty cool read! (Well, maybe the LAST page could be relevant, where he relates about a 'wonder' that 'haunted' him about atomic explosions: 'a robust ring of ionization current, located at the scroll points of the mushroom cloud, will persist for relatively long periods of time.')
http://www22.pair.com/csdc/download/autobio.pdf

[Farsight]

xray: I would encourage you to try out Falaco solitons for yourself. Find a pond and dip a plate halfway into the water then stroke it slowly forward whilst lifting it clear. You make a U-tube double whirlpool. Now make another one and aim it at an angle to the first. Look carefully at how the left and right-hand whirlpools interact. Two left-handed whirlpools waltz around one another, ditto for two right-hand whirlpools. That's a fluid analogy for electrostatic repulsion. A left and a right will however move towards one another. That's a fluid analogy for electrostatic attraction. Now aim two Falaco solitons at one another face to face, and see how they obliterate one another. That's a fluid analogy for electron-positron annihilation. I'd say the Falaco soliton is extremely relevant to our "electric" universe, but IMHO on the microscopic scale rather than the macroscopic scale.

[junglelord]

I have mentioned the Falaco Soliton in a thread on this forum.
Here is a utube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyjwZ39EDmw

[Farsight]

IMHO it's relevant to the electric universe because the Falaco soliton resembles half an electron. If you inverted one Falaco soliton and put it on top of the other, you'd have a vortex akin to a smoke ring. If you then rotate the ring like a steering wheel, you've got a fluid analogy that's very close to the electron.

If you make one Falaco soliton it tracks slowly across the pool. If you make one closely followed by another, the second soliton gets "free transport" through the first, which then swings round and through the second, and together they make faster progress across the pond. This is an analogy for low-temperature superconduction involving Cooper pairs.

I would urge you to try it Falaco solitons for yourself.

[earls]

Reminds me of entanglement.

What happens if an obstacle "splits" the Solitons "string singularity?

Consider the swimming pool demonstration, but half way across the pool, one soliton goes on one side of a sheet of plywood, and the other soliton on the other side.

I guess they destablize?

Either way, I'm captivated.

[junglelord]

I believe more and more that the analysis of Telsa, about only Longitudinal EM, transversing a vacuum, to be accurate. These terms, soliton, longitudinal, scalar, all pertain to the same family of nonlinear physics.
If you want to understand a EU, then you need to invest some time in phase conjugation as well.
Birkeland currents are only one side of the historical picture of the EU, that has been surpressed over time.

[xraydela]

earls asked,

What happens if an obstacle "splits" the Solitons "string singularity?

I glad you reminded me. This was one point I forgot to mention in my first post:
If the 'Falaco Soliton Effect' does play actual role in explaining ANY phenomenon at the cosmological scale this scares the hell out of me because the in the following website, http://www.cartan.pair.com/carfre3.htm, R.M. Kiehn describes what happens to the swimming pool version of Falaco Solitons:

If the arc is sharply severed, the dimples do not "ooze" away, as you would expect from a diffusive process; instead they disappear quite abruptly.

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By the way, I assume from R.M. Kiehn's rhetoric question (I quoted in the first post) that standard astrophysics, for some observed cosmological phenomenon, needs a mechanism that acts like a large INVISIBLE mass concentrated within a relatively small region of space. Specifically, I assume there exist 'twin' galaxies that slowly precess or orbit about each other as if a large INVISIBLE mass is between the two of them (and thus the mention of a Black Hole as the mechanism).

So what if Falaco Solitons (in the form of a Birkeland Current) provide the 'stability' in lieu of Black Holes for twin galaxies? 'Stabiliy'? Falaco Soliton topology provides for their VERY EXISTENCE!
I'd say from this if we every run into a Birkeland Current in space NOT TO MESS WITH IT! (like try to siphon off some energy for our spaceship or whatever or else, POOF, there goes two galaxies!)

Ohhh crap..our galaxy is not a twin with another is it?
If it is, what if that 2012 end-of-the-world stuff has anything to do with something crossing/cutting the Birkeland Current keeping our galaxy in existence?

P.S. Happy Halloween (LOL)

[earls]

Perhaps another method for supernovas? Instead of an "electric surge" perhaps power is cut off and boom?

[earls]

[Lloyd]

* It looks to me like the tube connecting the twin galaxies would be in the aether, rather than being a Birkeland current or filament of charged particles. A swimming pool is neutral matter, rather than ionized matter.
* Someone could determine how much energy it takes to sever the tube and perhaps destroy the galaxies by finding how much energy it takes to sever the tube in the swimming pool and scaling up a calculation.
* The whole thing is questionable, though, because Arp and Thornhill seem to have found that galaxies are formed electrically via plasma guns in active galactic nuclei, which shoot out quasars in opposite directions, usually via the galactic poles, which quasars develop into galaxies. The swimming pool vortices seem to be formed in an entirely different way. It might apply to how electrons etc are formed, as someone said above, but probably doesn't scale up to cosmic orders of magnitude.