observation · Water Fuel Cell · computed
Fig 7-12 (730): hump pitch follows the gap width, not flow speed; this counts against the simple dose-per-parcel reading of #3501
- Chris Freedom found Fig 7-12 (730, "Resonant Cavity Electrical Voltage Wave", WFC Memo 426) and observed that in (B), the Taper Cylindrical Resonant Cavity, the humps get closer toward the narrow end. Label: "Traveling Compressional Electrical Voltage Wave (57b)". In (C), the Non-Linear cavity, the humps get larger at the flare. Label: "Traveling Expanding Electrical Voltage Wave (57c)". In (A), the Linear cavity, they are even. Label: "Traveling Constant (57a)".
- CORRECTION to my own test criterion stated 2026-10-18 — I said either closer or wider spacing would support the flow / dose-per-parcel reading. That was too loose. Continuity (incompressible water) makes the flow speed up in a converging annulus. Under that reading the spacing v_flow/f_gate should therefore WIDEN toward the narrow end of (B) and SHRINK in the flare of (C). The drawing shows the opposite in both panels.
- Best-fitting reading — the hump pitch scales with the local gap, like similar triangles fitted into the annulus. Hump density therefore marks field intensity, E = V/d, so "compressional" means concentrated field and "expanding" means diluted field. A real TEM wave in a coax does not change speed with radius (v = c/√εr), so propagation does not explain the compression either.
- Example per-molecule figures at 2 kV — 1.5 mm gap gives 0.36 mV/molecule; 0.5 mm gives 1.08 mV/molecule (vic_calc molecule_voltage). The taper therefore walks the water up the ladder along its length at a fixed applied voltage. Dose-per-parcel still describes how many pulses a parcel receives, but it is not what Fig 7-12 draws.
Basis
- Recorded
- Published
- 18 Oct 2026
- Stanbot
- v3
- Source Ref
- Chris Freedom, Discord #neuralstan20-testing 2026-10-18 (Fig 7-12 image); The Birth of New Technology Fig 7-12 (730), Memo WFC 426; amends notebook #3501
- Notebook Id
- 3502
fig-7-12 taper wave-guide memo-426 correction field-intensity