The copper coils on these radios are inductors.  When you pass an alternating current through a coil it produces or inducts a magnetic field and has a flow of electrons called inductive reactance.  The size of the coil is measured in henry’s. The coil on these Sony’s are less than one microhenry or 0.000001 henry.  As frequency goes lower inductive reactance’s goes lower.

The tuner on your radio, what you use to change stations, is a variable capacitor.  As you change stations different frequencies resonate with the fixed coils with the result that you pick up different stations.  Since you can adjust it only so far the number of stations you can pick up is finite, unless you change the coils.  That changes the value (henry) of the inductor.

I figure if I can make a large enough inductor with enough current running through it I can create an electromagnetic filed strong enough to rip a hole in the space-time continuum.  I’ve just got to figure out how may henry’s I’ll need to produce.

Capacitors make an open circuit in a D.C (direct) current.  Its like you opened  a switch to turn off the juice, D.C won’t pass.  But with  an A.C (alternating) current it causes a resistance  called capacitive reactance.  Both capacitive reactance and inductive reactance  are called impedance.  As frequency goes up, capacitive reactance goes down, just the opposite of an inductor,  asdasdf  like I said, it’s 3:00 am.

If you hook up a coil and a capacitor in parallel :            

    and hit a frequency where the impedance in both are the same this is called resonant frequency, and the voltage drop across the circuit will be more than the input voltage.  Even after you unhook the voltage source the circuit will ring. I think the secret to perpetual motion is in that strange phenomenon call resonant frequency.

Remember at the beginning of this letter how I said that it was 3:00am and I had a vision and had nobody to talk to ?   Well, that vision was this:  that Einstein, Newton etc.,  .. were not super smart people.  They just stayed up late at night and were bored just like I am.

Signed

The thinker !

Written February, 2003

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