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Huh? A Model of Space, Infinity and Flow

Chapter 11 Miscellaneous Experiments

One thing became apparent when I was going through the thought process in Chapter 3 and that was my vision of how compression and decompression worked did not fit this model. I pictured compression was like compressing one long spring, when I removed the force that was compressing it, the spring would return to its original state. My view thinking about the model was completely different; when I release the force it wouldn’t or couldn’t return to the normal state, but would tend to stay compressed. This didn’t make any sense. My new view was like Figure 3-3, where someone yells fire at a crowded movie theater, the pressure is not equal and each person or persons would get squashed at a different rate.

I decided to run a new experiment that would compress multiple units instead of one long unit. I decided to use springs with washers between them to make it easier to measure distances. Here is what I used.

I got 28 1/4 I.D. springs 2 1/2 long and a box of washers with a big O.D. for 1/4 inch bolts. At the top left of Figure 9-1 I have stacked five of these washers and wrapped them with tape to make weights. I made five weights.

I got a piece of 2 x 6 and drilled two 1/4 holes through it and glued two 1/4 dowels that are about 2 feet long into the holes. See Figure 9-2.

I then started stacking washer/spring/washer/spring (see Figure 9-3) until I had 14 springs and washers and did the same on the other dowel. Then add four weights to the first dowel, see Figure 9-4.

Notice the difference between the far left stack with only the weights versus the one with the released extra compression. You can see the spring/washers lock onto the dowel.

I decided to try it again, but this time using stacked magnets and alternating the polarity.

I bought 20 round magnets with a 5/16 hole in then at Radio Shack and added to 5/16 dowels to the 2 x 6 I had, then started stacking them with alternating poles as shown in Figure 9-5.

Figure 9-6 show the results; the first picture is the two stacks (one is just for reference). The second shows extra force applied and the third shows what happens when you remove the force. The same thing as the experiment on the springs, they tend to stay compressed.

A close look reveals what is going on, when you add more compression they can’t go down and start moving to the sides in a twisting fashion. Figure 9-7 shows both.

Twist, while not apparent in the formula is an integral part of this model.

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