REVERSIBLE ELECTRODE EFFECT AND DOWSING

 2021 V.N. Shuleikin

Oil and Gas Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: shvn1947@yandex.ru

Abstract. The volumetric charge of the surface air above the objects of study of dowsers is characterized by a reversible electrode effect – an excess of negative charge. The frame, carrying a negative charge equal in density to the earthʼs charge, makes oscillatory movements in the operator's hand, as a result of which the density of the enveloping negative air charge on one side of the horizontal elbow increases. The negative charges of the horizontal bend of the frame and the negative space charge of air are inevitably repulsed. As a mechanical device, the frame is a lever where the pushing forces will be resisted by the frictional force of the vertical knee in the operator's hand. As a result, the repulsive forces between the negative air charge and the negative charge of the horizontal knee will multiply in proportion to the ratio of the distance from the point of application of forces to the horizontal knee to the radius of the vertical knee. Field and laboratory experiments confirm the stated hypothesis of the atmospheric-electrical nature of the rotation of the horizontal knee of the frame.

Keywords: negative air charge, negative frame charge, lever, reversible electrode effect, pushing forces.

About the author

SHULEIKIN Vladimir Nikolayevich – Oil and Gas Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 119333, Moscow, Gubkina st., 3. E-mail: shvn1947@yandex.ru

Cite this article as: Shuleikin V.N. Reversible electrode effect and dowsing, Geofizicheskie Protsessy i Biosfera (Geophysical Processes and Biosphere), 2021, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 5–13 (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.21455/GPB2021.1-1

English version: Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 2021, vol. 57, iss. 7. ISSN: 0001-4338 (Print), 1555-628X (Online). https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/11485