formerlycbragz wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:00 am
kia ora...so, assuming the iovanes idea is correct,the same effects ought to be induced when venus is eclipsing the sun also,through the venusian magnetail?...
Some thoughts:
The transit of Venus does have an effect on Earth’s geomagnetic field. Considering how small these effects are, with regard to the Moon alone, trying to detect pendulum perturbations caused by the transit of Venus would undoubtably present an even worse situation than the current Allias Effect.
This next paper is about the detection of
“significant deviations” in Earth’s atmospheric potential gradient during the 2004 transit of Venus across the Sun. With regard to Schuman Resonances the paper notes that
“on the day of transit, the corresponding amplitude decreases”. Interestingly enough “peaks”, just before and just after the Venusian transit as displayed in (Fig 1) & (Fig 2), were noticed on the day of transit. See:
The effect of recent Venus transit on Earth’s atmosphere: Syam S. De
et al
Also noticed in that paper is that the potential gradient decreased from a higher value to a lower value but the Schumann resonance did the opposite; they tend to increase from a lower value to a higher value. Nonetheless, significant deviations from average values were detected which means that the transit of Venus does have an influence on Earth’s Global Electric Circuit (GEC). Not enough to effect “terrestrial phenomena”, according to the authors, but enough to effect the
“the depth of interaction between Earth’s magnetosphere and solar radiations.” - which refers to how significant, or intense, the influences might be. This probably signifies an even worse case scenario for detecting pendulum deviations that might be associated with the transit of Venus.
That paper is quite nice and the reference section looks to have good follow up material particularly HARNISCHMACHER, E. and K. RAWER (1981): Lunar and planetary influences upon the peak electron density of the ionosphere.
The moon is obviously closer than Venus so the combined Lunar effects on the GEC would be more pronounced. However, such effects are not always detectable because of the number of influences that might hamper the efforts (location, humidity, aerosols, dust, cloud cover etc). With all of these factors in mind here is a paper that looked for eclipse related electrodynamic
"reduction in turbulent transfer of space charge" effects and did not find them:
Effects of the March 2015 solar eclipse on near-surface atmospheric electricity: A. J. Bennett
So, I think A. Iovane has a better approach with correlating long term observations with data from other sources (see his
Section 4- The Correlation). The torsind appears to ‘respond’ to geomagnetic activity induced during periods when the Sun is active using data from NOAA GOES 13 satellite data. No wonder he referred to the correlation as “striking”.
As A. Iovane explains the Pugach pendulum was
“electrostatically shielded but not magnetically shielded”. The earlier 2011 paper by Pugach notes that the apparatus was grounded in order to
“excluded interference from static electricity and reduced magnetic pickups”. The potential influences from “magnetic pickups” were not excluded; they were simply “reduced”. See:
Is the Maurice Allais`s Effect Exclusively Gravitational in Nature?: Alexander Pugach
The title of Pugach's paper is the right question to ask.
Another thing of interest from I. Aiovane's paper is the observation that most of the
“positive effects” were
“shifted in time” relative to the visual observations
"... sometimes by hours". That is interesting when consideration is given to the ‘delay’ that would need to occur for the solar wind to propagate over some distance. The electrodynamic solar wind (now perturbed by the presence of a planet) would need to travel from - for example - Moon to Earth, or Venus to Earth when they are between Earth and Sun.Then, the time it would take for electrodynamic ‘induction’ effects to occur within the Earth’s magnetosphere, then onwards to the Earth’s Global Electric Circuit, then onward into the test apparatus in the form of the proposed Eddy Currents - seems to make sense.
Would gravitational effects, even for pendulums, experience a delay
"... sometimes by hours" over such relatively short distances? Probably not.
At the least: shielding against, or the lack thereof, solar wind induced geomagnetic electrodynamic effects is something to keep in mind with regard to these pendulum experiments.