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You will see in the upper left corner of the video the power indicator of
the monitor and note that two different settings were used. The second
pass across the middle of the monitor was with it off. These discharges
cause a different pattern to form than result from discharges with the
monitor powered on. Two monitors were used in a attempt to simulate the transfer of material from differently charged bodies. The monitor receiving the material was cleaned thoroughly with distilled water and the other monitor was covered with a dusting of material. I may have cycled power of the collection monitor but i'll need to verify this detail. From other expirements I saw that material would collect to my finger and then transfer back off as it was brought into proximity of a monitor screen, so in this experiment I was going after determining if the patterns were caused in the material or if the surface had a form of memory, from a discharge, which would dictate how the material would be deposited. To accomplish this I initiated discharges to the clean monitor and then collected material to my finger from the other monitor. Bringing that material to the clean monitor gave the results seen in the sense of deposits in addition to other discharges during the process. One detail was clearly demonstrated repeatedly throughout all these experiments. Patterns of accumulation relate directly to the power setting at the time of the discharge. Spiders occur with power off and circular features occur from discharges when power is on. While doing experiments back in Dec,06 to evaluate the formation of crater chains, I saw that discharges that appear to overlap to form crater chains are actually partial discharge of the area adjacent to another discharge. To look at a chain of craters from a direction-of-travel perspective, the first discharge would be a complete circle. Subsequent discharges in close proximity will be cresent shaped. From this I speculate that the surface discharge is localized. The next discharge in the chain is only from the adjacent surface but in the same shape in a circular sense. Whatever area, within the circular geometry of the discharge, which has not already discharged will show up as a new disturbance in the dust. The discussion back in 12-06 was a side discussion group called electric-scars. How this relates to the deposit video may be clearer if you look at some of the crater chain images and then look at how the deposits are disturbed by new discharges while the monitor was powered on. I've blocked the left the index page of the geocities site and the electric-spark-scars site so you can look through the images with page content. More detail will be added here as it get extracted from the raw video. |