7.8 Hertz Resonant Circuit

[MarkE]

In order to utilize something that has a very low wavelength one needs an electrically very large structure.  It has happened by accident infrequently and caused a lot of trouble.  But if proper precautions could be taken then something like transcontinental transmission lines might be manipulated to advantage.

[Turbo]

I just found the original(?) of the magnet spinning at 7.8hz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJza3l8rmU

The very first comment (and it wasn't me!)

"Anyway this might be Shumann resonance, but far more likely

To judge or dismiss something that you have not tried yourself, or to blindly believe others is the highest form of ignorance.
And it's not the original vid the original one i uploaded to google video.
I am sorry that i do not take the time to answer your questions, this is due to my belief that you have already made up your mind and this is the incorrect approach.

The YouTube comment is correct.
I am not aware

To judge or dismiss something that you have not tried yourself, or to blindly believe what others say, is the highest form of ignorance.
This effect has been replicated by several people using different setup and methodes.

And it seems that people are completely missing the eleph... i mean poynt.
Well exept for Mr. Chet that is.

[MileHigh]

Turbo:

To judge or dismiss something that you have not tried yourself, or to blindly believe what others say, is the highest form of ignorance.
This effect has been replicated by several people using different setup and methodes.

I think there is great irony in your statement.  I looked at the clip of the wobbling magnets and I know that it has nothing to do with the Schumann resonance.  I do not have to try it myself, the clip is clearly showing the wobbling behaviour of the magnets and I have no doubt if I did the same experiment I would observe the same thing.  I am not blindly believing anybody, my comments come from myself only.  I am not the least bit surprised that the effect has been replicated by several people.

The problem lies in observing the phenomenon and then just blindly attributing it to the Schumann resonance.  What evidence is there for this statement?  That the frequencies are the same?  That's not evidence, that's just a coincidence.

You are the one that is apparently blindly believing that the effect has something to do with the Schumann resonance because that's what others say.  Apparently the fact that it has been replicated by others reinforces your belief.

Loot at what the clip is showing you:  It's a basic LC resonator where the spring is the magnetic field attraction and the mass is the mass of the wobbling magnet.  It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to to with the passive electromagnetic resonance cavity of the Earth.  Don't blindly believe that it does just because other people are telling you that.

MileHigh

[TinselKoala]

Yep. The fact that a mechanical resonance is stimulated by a 7.8 Hz signal is just a coincidence. The really interesting thing about that video is that the pulsations are being transferred to the magnets by a "core effect" toroidally wound coil. Recall that such a coil has very little leakage of the actual B field produced by the coil; it's all trapped inside the toroid. What happens when it is energised is that the core is driven into magnetic saturation, which _reduces_ the pull experienced from the external ring magnet. When the current is removed from the core-effect coil, the attraction is restored! And the polarity of the current is relatively unimportant. This seems exactly backwards from traditional electromagnet behaviour, and it is. The core effect needs more exploration as an energy transfer phenomenon, and can be used to make really neat pulse motors (Steorn's eOrbos from the Waterways demonstration, for example.)

[tim123]

To judge or dismiss something that you have not tried yourself, or to blindly believe others is the highest form of ignorance.

That's three times you've said that.

A wise man once told me: "You can only judge yourself".

Or, in other words: "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things." (Romans 2:1)

It makes it really easy to know what people are really like - you just wait til they tell you what they think of you...