Water Flowing Up 24 meters Not Magic, Just Science! Gravity of Life (Part3)

Not Magic, Just Sound Repeatable Science. Water flowing effortlessly up a Cliff in Brixham raising water to 24 metres No PUMP used, gravity provides the driving force of the flow!

Herald Express, July 6, 1995, page 19. (local paper in Torbay, Devon)
Main Heading: Eureka!
A Revolutionary breakthrough claimed by a Paignton man is to be investigated
by top scientists. Ideas man Andrew K Fletcher claims he has disproved a fundamental law of physics dating back to the 17th century. And impressed by the historic experiment at Overgang cliff, Brixham, to raise water 78 feet without the support of any artificial aids,
John Hunt, Senior forestry Officer for Devon and Somerset who witnessed the
experiment's success last Friday said: 'It was quite impressive.
The rule that water will only rise 32 feet under atmospheric pressure when in a column was effectively disproved."
But Mr Hunt explained that he is a professional forester not a scientist and
a report on the experiment would be sent to the Forestry commission 's Alice
Holt Research Station, near Farnham in Surrey, for further investigation. Mr Fletcher's experiment involves a long water filled plastic tube, strung
up the cliffside with both open ends placed in two filled demijohns.
A small amount of a salt solution is added at the top of the tube before it is completely filled with water, this acts as a liquid pulley says Mr Fletcher, lifting water from one demijohn to the other, thereby disproving Torriceli's 17th century law. This explains how trees can raise water to their tops beyond the 32 feet limit."
said an ecstatic Mr Fletcher. He believes that the discovery also suggests a mechanism by which all life on earth has evolved from the ground. Cliff experiment pulls plug on 300 year old law of physics

Andrew Kenneth Fletcher

Also attended: Kindred Spirit Reporters, Head Of Devon Forestry Commission John Hunt and Forestry Commission Scientists, Helping with Experiment John Russell, Adrian Van Zweden (physicist, water engineer, former South West Water), Jude, my lovely wife.

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The Experiment at Brixham Overgang Cliffs where water flowed vertical up a single 6 mm bore tubing using 10 mils of salt solution, demonstrating that a tiny amount of denser solution can lift effortlessly many thousands of times it's own volume in water without any artificial aids, demonstrating clearly a non living physical cause of bulk flow in plants trees, animals and humans. The 10 metre limit for lifting water clearly needs some serious revision.

Online experiment details
http://www.andrewkfletcher.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=1982.0
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[AndrewKFletcher]

This is a historic experiment showing how trees harness gravity to raise water effortlessly through the leaves. One would have thought that scientists would be falling over backwards to investigate this claim, yet to date not a single academic has come forward to confirm or contest this experiment. Why is this?

[ElectricDoctor1]

Hi Andrew I like this experiment and have done something that may support you theory. I work with vacuum systems and produced the vacuum siphon at Nottingham University (periodic videos). I have recently found a way of running a water siphon under vacuum. This shows that water can have tension and be raised above the level that is predicted by atmospheric pressure.

[AndrewKFletcher]

@ElectricDoctor1 Hi, thanks for your comment, which I find intriguing. Can you send me an email to thinklateral at hotmail dot com with some details and perhaps we could talk on the phone following my reply to your mail?

[UnderManlac]

Capillary action. Nature has been doing that for millions of years. It's nothing new.

[AndrewKFletcher]

@UnderManlac this experiment has nothing whatsoever to do with capillary action, the tube used is 6 millimetres bore. Capillary tubes are fine tubes, in fact far finer than the tubes in a tree. A tree cannot soak water up from the ground and capillary action cannot address the bulk flow rates evident in trees and plants.

[Mozart2Vienna]

To me it seams surprising that this rather simple experiment (compared to the big hadron collider in Switzerland ;o)) was not executed before in the last 300 years.

[AndrewKFletcher]

@Mozart2Vienna Thank you for your comment. I agree entirely. We spend far too much time and money on avenues that will not produce anything practical or useful in the foreseeable future. We are not asking for £billions, just a little time out from mainstream to investigate this simple experiment, which has phenomenal potential to alter the way we view water behaviour and circulation. Maybe in another hundred years Academia will climb down off it's soap box with its eyes opened.

[tonybkk999]

Poorly filmed, lousy soundtrack, no documentation or explanation of any kind: a complete waste of time. Loved the seagulls, though.

[micolich]

@AndrewKFletcher Wait a second, the video has me confused. Is there a net flow of liquid from one reservoir to another in your experiment? It's not very clear in the video. If so, is it correct to say that your driving force is just the slightly density of salty water giving a larger rho*g*h?

Also, if one reservoir is salty and one fresh, shouldn't your mechanism stop once the saltiness has been washed from the tube? I don't see how you get continuous flow in this system.

[IllTryButNoPromises]

@Mozart2Vienna sending particles at eachother at nearly the speed of light. yay hadron collider

[igorfelixmiziara]

i lost 8:43 min of my life!

[ISamuelII]

Who was saying "waste of time" near the ending?

So having a denser solution near the top will aide in drawing the liquid column upward beyond what atmospheric pressure theoretically would allow. In a practicle sense for us, how would we keep a denser solution near the top if we were to draw from it? Wouldn't a siphon slightly lower, say one meter lower than the denser solution not be able to draw on it with the source still being farther than the 30M theory limit? Fine for a tree but for us?