Solar System Electrostatic Motor Theory

Greg Poole

Industrial Tests, Inc. Rocklin, CA, USA

Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Scientific & Academic Publishing.

Abstract

In this paper, the solar system has been visualized as an electrostatic motor for the research of scientific concepts. The Earth and space have all been represented as spherical capacitors to derive time constants from simple RC theory. Using known wave impedance values (R) from antenna theory and celestial capacitance (C) several time constants are derived which collectively represent time itself. Equations from Electro Relativity are verified using known values and constants to confirm wave impedance values are applicable to the earth antenna. Dark energy can be represented as a tremendous capacitor voltage and dark matter as characteristic transmission line impedance. Cosmic energy transfer may be limited to the known wave impedance of 377 Ω. Harvesting of energy wirelessly at the Earth’s surface or from the Sun in space may be feasible by matching the power supply source impedance to a load impedance. Separating the various the three fields allows us to see how high-altitude lightning is produced and the earth maintains its atmospheric voltage. Spacetime, is space and time, defined by the radial size and discharge time of a spherical or toroid capacitor.

Keywords: Cutoff Frequency, Lightning, RC Time Constant, Schumann Resonance, Spherical Capacitance

Introduction

In 1749, Benjamin Franklin first invented the electrical jack or electrostatic wheel. The electrical jack was, in fact, the first electrical motor in recorded history. The induction or Faraday disc would not follow until eighty years later. Franklin borrowed the word jack from the term smoke jack, a machine for turning a roasting-spit by means of a flywheel or wheels, set in motion by the current of ascending air in a chimney. The smoke jack was a labor-saving device and every housewife’s dream. With his discovery of electricity, Dr. Franklin set about inventing an improved electrical jack to a burgeoning domestic market in colonial America. Here is how Franklin described his electrical jack as follows:

“A small upright shaft of wood passes at right angles through a thin round board, of about twelve inches diameter, and turns on a sharp point of iron fixed in the lower end, while a strong wire in the upper-end passing thro’ a small hole in a thin brass plate, keeps the shaft truly vertical. About thirty radii of equal length, made of sash glass cut in narrow strips, issue horizontally from the circumference of the board, the ends most distant from the center being about four inches apart. On the end of everyone, a brass thimble is fixed. If now the wire of a bottle electrified in the {29} common way, be brought near the circumference of this wheel, it will attract the nearest thimble, and so put the wheel in motion; that thimble, in passing by, receives a spark, and thereby being electrified is repelled and so driven forwards; while a second being attracted, approaches the wire, receives a spark, and is driven after the first, and so on till the wheel has gone once round, when the thimbles before electrified approaching the wire, instead of being attracted as they were at first, are repelled, and the motion presently ceases. — But if another bottle which had been charged through the coating be placed near the same wheel, its wire will attract the thimble repelled by the first, and thereby double the force that carries the wheel round; and not only taking out the fire that had been communicated to the thimbles by the first bottle, but even robbing them of their natural quantity, instead of being repelled when they come again towards the first bottle, they are more strongly attracted, so that the wheel mends its pace, till it goes with great rapidity twelve or fifteen rounds in a minute, and with such strength, as that the weight of one hundred Spanish dollars with which we once loaded it, did not seem in the least to retard its motion. — This is called an electrical jack; and if a large fowl were spitted on the upright shaft, it would be carried round before a fire with a motion fit for roasting.” [1]

Our solar system resembles Franklin’s “electrical jack”, but instead of the thimbles the Sun is one large self-excited dynamo. In place of cylindrical Leyden jars, we have spherical planets. Spherical stars and spherical planets are in fact like the Leyden jars of old. Using our imagination, by greatly increasing the size of the electrical jack to cosmic proportions, we can visualize rotating celestial bodies that are simply huge spherical capacitors, which momentarily store electricity. If I may borrow some of the many electrical terms Franklin coined; planets act as an electrical battery and store the positive and negative as an electrical charge. Our solar system acts like one large electrostatic motor transferring electrical fire (flux transfer events) from the Sun to the planets.

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