Well, I'm getting to it, a little late...
I needed a theoretical idea, otherwise we'd never know in which direction to experiment. I'm not yet at the point where I can experiment, but I'm making progress. I'm going to start from the hypothesis that it's an NMR (or ESR?) resonance phenomenon. Several points converge in this direction: - criticality of magnetization, - oscillations, - instabilities, - classical physics can offer no plausible explanation for a gain in energy; we can only be dealing with quantum physics. How can NMR be produced? In the Magnetstromapparat, the coil generates a classical magnetic field in the core. Note that one of the coil end wires follows the core and is connected to it. The wire along the core generates a circular magnetic field around its current, which passes partly through the air and partly transversely through the core. As the current returns via another connection point on the core, between the two connection points an equal current also flows in the core, but in the opposite direction. When viewed from a distance, the magnetic fields of these two reverse currents cancel out macroscopically, but not locally, as the forward and return currents are neither sufficiently close nor symmetrical.
The odd thing is that in the core, near the surface where the wire is lodged, the field from the wire and that from the core will reinforce each other in the same way as between the wires of a bifilar line, while beyond they cancel each other out. The zone where they add up is close to the surface, and this resulting field is transverse to the coil's overall field, so these crossed fields can lead to rotation if there are phase shifts between them. I think it's because the effect is close to the surface that plates rather than cylinders were later used as cores in the supposedly more powerful Stromerzeuger. In NMR, we similarly have a constant field on one axis, and a variable or pulsating field on a transverse axis. But these experiments are never performed in the presence of a current in the material whose atoms are to be excited. Could it be that Coler's device uses these currents to enable a kind of auto-tuning to the NMR frequency? Could it also be that, unlike conventional NMR, we no longer need a constant field in the material, because this tuning would take place locally, on a microscopic scale ?
Finally, where would the energy come from? I have no idea, except perhaps from a nuclear ß- decay involving a tiny number of atoms (Cu or Fe or Co) on which the NMR may have been locally sufficient to overcome coulombic resistance. I have little confidence in this theory, but no more in T Ludwig's ZPE theory, which attempted to reproduce the device, and I don't believe at all in the result of a magnetoacoustic phenomenon.
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