Re: EM necklace

[Craig Lucanus <lucanus@ARACH.NET.AU>]

the felt has to be kept quite most if this is to work. Maybe an aerobics
classes enhancer, and a bit smelly if kept locked up between-times?
Yours sincerely
Craig Lucanus
----- Original Message -----
From: "brian carroll" <human@ELECTRONETWORK.ORG>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:22 PM
Subject: EM necklace


>   Hello. This list is the only place I can really figure
>   out where I might find an answer to my question...
>   I created conceptual jewelry of electromagnetism,
>   one of which is meant to be an experiment of sorts.
>   It it is bead necklace with a metal wire and copper
>   clasp, around which are strung amber beads, felt,
>   and magnetite (magnetic hematite, though act as
>   a magnet so maybe it is not natural). in any case,
>   there is an image at the following, one has a few
>   pieces of jewelry, the other just a necklace image:
>
>   http://www.electronetwork.org/assemblage/zone2/bcjewelry.htm
>
> http://www.electronetwork.org/assemblage/images/zone2/jewelry2/
> emnecklace.jpg
>
>   In any case, to me this combination of electrostatic
>   amber (and felt which it rubs against in movement)
>   and thus may build up a charge, and also magnetic
>   beads which are strung along side these and also
>   move about the shared wire -- is 'electromagnetism'
>   by way of combining 1-100 million year old amber
>   with 30+million (?) y.o. lodestone, and it was my
>   guess that on some micro-scale that these may be
>   interacting in some way with the share wire while
>   jostling about on a necklace-- that is, EM fields and
>   possibly some changes in the properties of the wire
>   which holds it all together. Thus, it is speculation
>   yet seems also a reasonable assumption, though
>   how to measure this with equipment (basically, a
>   cheap multimeter) seems out of the question. Any
>   ideas on the validity of this concept, and if there is
>   any way it may be investigated should the chance
>   someday arrive? I think of this in the same way as
>   the generation of electricity through movement by
>   humans, such as with piezo sensors in sneakers.
>   Maybe such a jewelry could produce micro-power
>   just by moving about. Curious about all of this.
>   Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. brian
>
>   brian thomas carroll: research-design-development
>   architecture, education, electromagnetism
>   http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/