The Floating Water Bridge

[standeyo]

This experiment was first performed in 1842 by Lord W. G. Armstrong (a friend of Michael Faraday). This was reported in "The Vindicator Scrolls" (my book) in 1989 and later in 2010 in "The GEMstone Scrolls Part One (also by me). In the latter I gave a detailed mathematical explanation of the test results and the resulting changes to electrodynamic theory.

See standeyo.com for more info.

[pawnsofamerica]

everything is connected

Imagine :)

[deathizmylife]

putting a charge throu the 2 liquids would effect there intermolecular hydrogen bonding

[hoarston]

its salt water?

[remotecorpse]

@hoarston : Unlikely. But still, it's strange that there are no bubbles to be seen; no electrolysis.

[diggdawg89]

what about a magnetic liquid pool?

[trustthewater]

Moses?

[diggdawg89]

they're gnna make water parks like this :D

just dont drown KEKEKEKEKEKKE >:D

[gumdrops27]

That would be awesome

[TehScreamingWeirdo]

nah they would be closed then. you need electricity to make this work. we would get shocked if we get into the water

[diggdawg89]

oh lol.

[dacomb]

@TehScreamingWeirdo only if we were grounded, if the voltage remains the same all around us there would not be a problem.

[marlls1989]

who that liquid was turned into a super fluid?

[Azkadaz]

That is way cool!

[magepker8108]

it is a gravitational effect so there is no suction once the water is flowing, simply gravity and molecular bonding, the meniscus of a full glass show the strength of that bond, but the ultimate demo of water bonding is the old fashioned straw trick, place the straw in a glass of water and place you finger over the top and lift. the water stay in the straw, the is a seal at the top, but the only thing holding the water in the rest of the straw is the bond to the rest of the water, (cont)

[funnyoshi123]

i know you guys know this sort of thing, and i know what you are saying it's just can you explain a bit more simpler?

[aahhmmeedd112233]

wait i swear this is the experiment were they created a bridge by passing electricity throught the water i remeber reading this somewere

[sneakytouchyourplace]

Actually the water's surface tension is nowhere near enough to form a bridge like that. This trick is done by inducing high voltage between the 2 beakers of water.

[xxTwi]

...Isn't this straw effect because of the partial vacuum created within the straw?

[CALSS001]

we can make big briges like that cool

[newtonsend269]

read the posts in reverse as they had to be cut to fit

[newtonsend269]

in a huge weight for strength demo, and upside down full glass of water that has a piece of paper pulled from under it and the water stays upside down in the glass, that is a massive weight to hold. so in short, the water is simply drawn to the current of the alternate pole, and the wonderful nature of the bonding we see every day does the rest. still very cool.

[newtonsend269]

it is a gravitational effect so there is no suction once the water is flowing, simply gravity and molecular bonding, the meniscus of a full glass show the strength of that bond, but the ultimate demo of water bonding is the old fashioned straw trick, place the straw in a glass of water and place you finger over the top and lift. the water stay in the straw, the is a seal at the top, but the only thing holding the water in the rest of the straw is the bond to the rest of the water, (cont)

[newtonsend269]

Don't even think this is new, have seen several videos of the uni student experimants where they make the water flow uphill with an electric current, this is the same thing, water follows the current, the end to which the water is flowing is the negative from memory. still very cool though, the bridge effect is just molecular bonding of water like a siphon, water travelling uphill in the syphon bonds to the water below and pulls it along, many people think a s yphon is a vacum effect, (cont)

[laputahayom]

you deserve more letter space

[SidewaysCity]

lol

[sciencoking]

what the.....

how does this work? :D

[EvilResidentXIII]

see the two rods sticking into the water, i am pretty they are giving off such powerful vibrations is causing a bridge of energy for the water to cross

[sciencoking]

nah, i think it´s some electrostatic attraction stuff

[fattoldpig]

i think thats a demonstration of a super-fluid's properties, it usually just takes the shape of its container's surface area, this looks like it might have something to do with that

[frizspin175]

unfortunately its not a superfluid. superfluids only become superfluids at very cold temperatures, around 2 kelvin I think.

[kortez300]

Wow I wish I knew more about science

[jairoruiz78]

two beakers, á 100mL triply deionized water

1mm apart, one beaker moveable

filled to about 3mm below the edge

direct current (15kV, 0.5 mA)

water moves spontaneously up the walls, builds a bridge, that holds up to 25mm (@ 25 kV) for a period of 45minutes (!)

after that probably the water heat (60°C) kills the bridge

[wbeaty]

Here's the reference: Lord Armstrong's lecture, reported in THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, Feb 10, 1893, p154. See

amasci com/freenrg/wasser html Armstrong initially used "chemically pure" water, and a very large steam-blast electrostatic generator operated out of doors.

[luketrashtalker]

Cool. I think this has to do with an electric potential between the two beakers. Cathode in one beaker and anode in the other? If both contacts were in the same beaker, you'd get electrolysis. But since the contacts are in different beakers, you just get polar water molecules moving under the influence of an electric field. Electrolysis is probably prevented mainly by the fact that this is purified water rather than tap water. I'd like to know if my guess is right. Give me a reply.

[wbeaty]

The water surface suggests significant subsurface flows. Have you tracked the flow patterns, if any, (perhaps with very clean plastic particles, etc.?)

That ancient article about these "threads" described a dye experiment, where the water from one beaker flowed down the axis of the thread, while the water from the opposite beaker flowed as a coaxial cylinder. Sounds like "beam neutralization" phenomenon, or perhaps self-organized flow of ion populations having two different mobilities.

[TheGoldenWaffle]

awesome.

[wbeaty]

Ferrofluid is a high-permeability liquid and acts odd in a strong b-field. Since water is a high-permittivity liquid, we'd expect it to act odd in a strong e-field. But there must be more here than simple "ferrofluid-like" behavior, since magnetic monopoles aren't flowing within ferrofluid bridges.

[ribenawrath]

not a fake-polarity of molecules

[dedouille2005]

Polarity of the water molecule must be responsible ...no?