Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0708081033330.11810@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Stairs and Us
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:33:46 -0400 (EDT)
Stairs and Us I coupled an ancient homemade variometer or variocoupler with the loose coupler (in series with the antenna. I reset the slider bar and repaired the crack in the front coil support. I made a new slider contact out of a smooth alligator clip. I attached a very think wire to the cat's whisker tip to improve contact. I refiled the primary coil contacts. I repaired the 1918 509W 1100 Wester Electric headset leads and placed cloth over the rubberized ear pieces which seemed to be deteriorating. I reattached a loose while on the variocoupler. I rewired the connections I made with the alligator clips. I bypassed the internal secondary coil of the loose coupler. I glued shims under the outer rail support for the secondary coil. I set up a short 30 foot antenna in a garage. I attached a 15 foot ground to a door frame. In the day I pick up 1090 and nothing else, at night I pick up KOA and nothing else. They're on very different parts of the AM band. I pick up a faint buzz but this is with or without the crystal so I imagine it's nothing more than 60 hz inducing in the vicinity. I think the signals will be stronger in New York - greater humidity, more and closer stations, and a very long wire antenna and good ground. I think I'm running this on no energy. I think I'm stealing energy. I think it's there and free for you and me. I think I'm making a secret. - http://www.asondheim.org/vario.jpg - While I am doing this, I think again of the paradox - theoretically one can run upstairs faster than down since there's only gravity, no foothold, down, and upstairs one pushes off the stair surfaces for speed. Near a black hole I imagine the two speeds would be more or less equal. In zero gravity, going down the stairs would be at 0 kilometers / hour; there's nothing moving the body one way or another. On the other hand, moving upstairs would still be roughly at any speed; the obstacle, of course, the inertial mass of the body and the 'foot force' at hand. I think, why is this? Why is it easier to fall for someone downstairs, but there are limits based on the planet the two of you are on - while running upstairs, fleeing the raptor - why, there's no inherent limit except what the body imposes, against whatever gravity happens to be around. (I think, downstairs, it's the pulsing of the planet - upstairs, it's the pulsing of the speaking body, listening planet, or speaking planet, listening body, always this dialog as one approaches an indefinite absolute, the planet's masquerade.)