Letter #1

From: Rich P. Vento
To: josephnewman@earthlink.net
Subject: Your machine

Dear Joe,

I am only modestly acquainted with your work having read an article in Scientific American(?) some years ago. I am a mathematical physicist and I believe that you are using a very simple principle here that mainstream engineering is ill-prepared to address.

If you initially pass electrical dc charges through a conductive loop, the transient magnetic field builds around the coil (Faraday's Law of Induction) until the applied dc electric field forces charges into the receiving terminal of the battery. After which time the transient current will reach steady state and the battery will fry. One of Maxwell's equations (curl of E = -dB/dt) governs the entire phenomena during the transient state.

However, if both loop size and length is large, relative to the finite velocity of the charging pulse, then, as a consequence of the principle of special relativity, the collapsing magnetic field around the coil can be sustained in a narrow region of space in the coil. Kind of in a back-and-forth sway, neither fully collapsing nor expanding to peak.

If your discharge or pulse cycle, is timed so that it sets the collapsing magnetic field into a resonant harmonic, relative to the coil length, then you can, and will excite a self-sustaining and gradually building magnetic field, allowing for both line loss and recharging of the bank of batteries. You will also gradually, but continually, add to the electric field strength, and likewise the current carrying capacity of the continuous coil, and hence push the peak envelope of the magnetic field.

In addition, I believe that you will also excite more electrons of the conductor into the Fermi band where they'll do some good as small charge carrying entities (an added benefit). This might explain where the polarization vector in Maxwell's equations gives rise to energy above unity in what you must be seeing.

If the pulse is timed to reverse itself, consistent with some simple calculations, special relativity will predict that the advanced magnetic potential will sustain itself. I also think if you can do the experiment in cold junction conditions (liquid nitrogen immersion), the incremental magnetic and electric field peaks will rapidly enlarge.

If you would like we can correspond further, but I can almost make these calculations of what is required in my head.

your admirer, Rich
Mathematical Physicist

Letter #2

From: Rich P. Vento
To: josephnewman@earthlink.net

Dear Joe,

I think I could do a lot more for your efforts once I read your book. I shall search local libraries Oberlin, CWRU, JCU, CSU, and the University of Akron, for the book.

I truly believe you may have something. The key points are your coil length, number of turns, and, pulse cycle time of the discharge switch. These will determine whether the fields can be resonated using the finite velocity of light, which may be used quite advantageously by the pulse cycle.

If you start to build a Faraday-induced magnetic field around a conductor, and then reverse the polarity of the electric field, it is quite conceivable you would develop what are called the retarded and advanced potentials.

I'll look at some graduate E&M texts such as J.D. Jackson, Panofsky & Phillips, and Reitz & Milford (Adv UG). There may also be good theoretical insight in the writings of Nicolai Tesla. A couple of Russians have done some good theoretical work in E&M, and I may even have Sir James Jeans' book around as a Dover edition.

If you do have an alternative energy source, I can bring myself to understand it. I was one of the first physicists to decipher what Fleishmann and Pons were doing with cold fusion phenomena. I likened it to an accelerated form of "rusting" (i.e. heat evolution) with insufficient tritium and driving force to self sustain and control the reaction. You see, if you know the lattice (or phonon) vibration frequency of a crystal, then you can insert charges in between the phases of +/- affinity. As a '+' x-tal expands, by the symmetry of physical laws, that is likened to a the inducement of a negative charge in the center of the array. Thus you can play with the field effects.

Best regards,

Rich P. Vento
Mathematical Physicist

Letter #3

Gentlemen,

The debate of the origin of the magnetic field has certainly sparked my interest regarding the work of Joseph Newman. Please let me clarify that there is a fundamental difference between magneto-statics and magneto-dynamics (just as with electrostatics and electrodynamics). The difference being whether or not charge is in motion relative to the observer.

Much can be said about Joe's claim of the inherent magnetic field of the coil medium. There is, after all, ferro- dia- and para-magnetism, which are essentially static field concepts. But I think the over unity power that apparently has been observed in Newman machines is a combination of resonating the dynamic fields, both electric and magnetic; which perhaps permits the addition of more charges (from the coil itself) to enter the Fermi (conduction) band. Maxwell's equations play a role here, as well as the laws of Ampere, Faraday, and Biot-Savart, (maybe even Tesla).

In order for the stationary observer to observe a magnetic field, one either places iron filings on paper and brings a magnet nearby, OR, one passes current thru a conductor and watches a compass align itself. A moving observer would also observe complementary E & M fields if he (she) were to move a coil (fixed relative to the moving observer) over a stationary magnetic or move a magnet (fixed relative the moving observer) over a stationary coil. If the applied motion is sinusoidal, a compass would alternate its position. these examples are clear indications of an operative field.

Note above, that I speak of an observer. When relative motion comes into play, either by moving an iron core thru a coil, while passing current, or whether the observer is moving relative to a fixed field, the E-field will develop perpendicularly to the B-field in a manner consistent with the coordinate transformations of special relativity. Remember, Einstein could have used Galilean space and time transformations to attempt the rationalization of his theory. Instead he opted to keep consistency in Maxwell's equations, and thus the Lorentz transformation was born and we ended up with dynamic, E & M fields.

Rich P. Vento
Mathematical Physicist

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Letter #4

Gentlemen:

I gave a reply to the magnetic field controversy. Here I'd like to say that the evidence surrounding Maxwell's equations in E&M is overwhelming. But Joe has something that I first commented on and sent to Evan some weeks ago. Namely, with resonating phenomena, there may be an excitation of another mode of electron behavior. This may contribute to the gradual buildup of the time varying E-field which would contribute to the B-field.

Just like in thermodynamics the three modes of energy that a gas molecule experiences: translation, rotation, and vibration all kick in at different frequencies (read energy levels) to contribute to the 3/2K*T which is observed.

If we apply Maxwell's partial (albeit, linear) DE to the creation of a magnetic field from a time varying E-field we see macroscopic effects. But should a configuration-specific resonance phenomena be observed, more of the conductor's electrons may be kicked into resonant conduction, further adding to the E-field, hence the B-field.

We have four quantum numbers describing the electron, n, l, m_l, m_s. The electron is a true particle as are all leptons. The gyrotron (my name for Joe Newman's particle, is probably some type of spin-orbit interaction, or band filling/band-splitting phenomena, ANY OF WHICH may contribute to conduction (and hence B) during resonance with resulting behavior as some sort of "virtual" particle. The virtual particle won't be directly observable--but its effects may be predictable.

We must not overlook Special Relativity and the finitude of the velocity of light as the fundamental physical constraint on all E&M phenomena. And the analogy is quite simple: I can set up a resonating standing wave if I have fixed boundary conditions. This I cannot do for an infinite travelling wave. Because Newman devices employ large coils with fixed boundaries and switching, I suspect a mathematical formulation (with appropriate testable, engineering conditions given) is quite possible.

Rich P. Vento
Mathematical Physicist