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On 1 Oct, 07:25, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.physorg.com/news110191847.html
> "When exposed to a high-voltage electric field, water in two beakers
> climbs out of the beakers and crosses empty space to meet, forming the
> water bridge. The liquid bridge, hovering in space, appears to the
> human eye to defy gravity."
>
> In a strong electrical field water dipoles are ordered in such a way
> that thermal agitation of molecules causes a SPECIFIC PRESSURE inside
> the liquid. In certain experiments this specific pressure can lift
> water: the energy needed for lifting is in fact heat absorbed from the
> surroundings. If lifted water is allowed to leave the field (for
> instance, when water has been lifted between the plates of a
> capacitor, the specific pressure could push it through a hole in one
> of the plates), the liquid will form, ideally, an eternal waterfall
> outside the strong field. Perhaps the device cannot be of any
> practical use as a heat engine but still it violates the second law of
> thermodynamics.

The same SPECIFIC PRESSURE generated inside the liquid by a strong
electric field is also responsible for the enormous decrease in the
force of attraction between the plates of a capacitor when immersed in
water. Panofsky and Phillips call the effect "mysterious" and claim
that "the decrease in force....cannot be explained by electrical
forces alone": W. Panofsky, M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and
Magnetism, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1962, pp. 111-116.
See also fig. 6-7 on p. 112 demonstrating lifting of water between the
plates.

Pentcho Valev