This stuff is just plain over my head. One scientist could claim that it verifies the theory and another could claim that it doesn’t and I wouldn’t have a clue how to proceed.
http://www.atomicprecision.com/blog/wp-filez/ceramic%20superconducting%20electrodes.pdf
Investigation of high voltage discharges in low pressure gases through large ceramic superconducting electrodes
Evgeny Podkletnov, Giovanni Modanese
Moscow Chemical Scientific Research Center
113452 Moscow – Russia E-mail:
epodkletnov@hotmail.com
University of Bolzano
Logistics and Production Engineering Via Sernesi 1, 39100 Bolzano - Italy
E-mail: giovanni.modanese@unibz.it
Abstract: A device has been built and tested, in which a ceramic superconducting cathode and a copper anode cause electrical discharges in low pressure gases, at temperatures between 50 and 70 K. The electrodes are connected to a capacitors array charged up to 2000 kV; peak currents are of the order of 104 A. The cathode has the diameter of 10 cm and is fabricated by OCMTG technology. In discharges at voltage above 500 kV two new phenomena were observed, probably related to each other. First, the discharge does not look like a spark, but is a flat, glowing discharge, which originates from the whole surface of the superconducting electrode. Furthermore, a radiation pulse is emitted at the discharge, which propagates orthogonally to the cathode, towards the anode and beyond it, in a collimated beam, apparently without any attenuation. The radiation pulse carries an energy of 10-3 J at least. The features and the nature of this radiation have been investigated by several means, still it was not possible to identify it; we can only exclude that it is electromagnetic radiation or any other radiation with energy-momentum relationship E=cp.
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6. Conclusions
The occurrence of the observed flat discharges is related to the crystal structure of the superconducting cathode. Since the high-conductivity ab planes are parallel to the surface, the electric field at this surface is extremely uniform. During the discharges intense supercurrents flow through the cathode in the c crystal direction. The superconducting charge carriers “leap” by tunnelling through 10 or more ab planes in the discharge time. Due to macroscopic quantization, their wave functions keep a coherent phase in the motion. The non-electromagnetic radiation emitted in this process seems in fact to be spatially coherent and its wavelength is probably connected to the lattice spacing of the YBCO crystals.