I was about to run away from this video half way through. So many educational vids like this go from simple elementary explanations to quantum physics equations in a matter of seconds. But this video was a steady incline of new information that even I could grasp after a few drinks. Thank you so much for this!
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Going into this video: "Hey, no fair. You've already explained how a Wimshurst machine works" Watching this video: "Oh. Wait. Nevermind. This one is GORGEOUS." Beautiful job. Good editing, incredible animation, loved it.
Thanks. It didn't happen often but every now and then I had the time to do a video with a thorough explanation like this. Another is one about how a crystal radio works ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0-PParSmwtE.html Thanks for watching!
Wow! I've come across your videos from time to time and after I saw the one you made about the tea laser a few years ago I checked out most of what you had posted. You never used to really attempt to explain things in this sort of depth and always sort of underplayed your understanding of things. I have to say that your explaining in this video is not only just as good as I expected, but the animations are perfectly synchronized with the script and very clear and well done in their own right. Did you do all the CGI yourself too? In any case I'm very happy to see your channel continuing to mature beyond what was already a fascinating catalog of fun projects and demos. I'm sure the algorithm fairy will bring you at least another 100k subs by 2020 if you keep this up.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I've done a few of these long, detailed explanation videos but I haven't done a lot because, as you can guess, they're a lot of work - 3 weeks fulltime for a single one. But I do enjoy doing them. Another one which I did a long time ago and which you might also enjoy is my How a Crystal Radio Works video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0-PParSmwtE.html And yes, I do all the CGI too using Blender, a free 3D modelling and animation software.
I think I can build my own now, after watching your other video on how to build one. I ended up knowing that you can use a film disk 📀. But I won't build one Cus. am lazy😅
Thank you very much for this video! Im from Brazil, and work in Musem of Arts and Trades, in Belo Horizonte. Here have a Wimshurts machine and i needed to understand better how works, and this video helped me so much! I really love it! Perfect explanation, i am sending for all my collegues, thanks!!
Thankyou very much for that informative video on the basic construction of a wimshurst machine. I am an electronic engineer and have always been fascinated by this device ever since childhood when I used to see those old 1950s Frankenstein movies where they had huge ones made to show massive sparks which probably couldn't have been achieved and also jacobs ladder sparks which would have been unfeasable using them. But in all those years even though I understood the principle behind how the charge was accumulated, I never took the time to discover how they actually were constructed. I'm retired now and plan to make a big one with the best insulators I can find and see what I can do with it...
Hey Amigo nice to see this video again...the Wimshurst video you made last time was one of the best !! I even tickled you to make an '' N machine '' after that i remember!
That's strange. You're the second person to say they've seen another Wimshurst machine explanation by me but this is the first time making one that I can recall. I made a start a few years ago but didn't get past the intro. As you can imagine, it was a monumental amount of work. I also wrote a Hackaday article but that's all.
That's hard to answer. The voltage really depends on the distance at the spark gap. I did read somewhere that the current at the collectors is around 10 microamps or less though. Of course, if you have a spark then the spark contains a much higher amount of current over a brief time.
Bruh I did the stupid. So I built your wimshurst machine (the DIY version), and it turns out that I literally put the neutralizer rods the wrong way. I fixed it and got my first spark! Some modifications I made are: 16 foils on each Made of cardboard (no corona leakage as far as I can tell) 2 cylinder shaped Leyden jars
Omg ..I did it . Omg . I see it. Omg ..I know the future of this machine. Why is the pattern all over ? I know how to do it. Why do we use electricity ? Why do we use rocket fuel ? This machine is a engine ? Man is crazy to walk away from this engine...a mouse could power. I now know how to ride lightening. I know how to ride inside of lightening. I know how to create lightening. I know how to bend lightening. I know how to move as fast as lightening. I see a pattern hidden in front of us . Why would somebody over time leave clues to the future scattered around ? Is giving hints to humans interfering with their destiny ? Why am I seeing clues , hints , images ,all pertaining to this old design ? Why is somebody mocking humans with a technogy not used ? It's like a scattered puzzle and somebody keep leaving clues all over . If they know , why are they not doing ? Why do they hope somebody will figure it out ? I see what you over look and yet do with purpose ..
Humid air is more electrically conductive than dry air. That allows a lot of the charge on the sectors/segments leaks to the surrounding air and so it is harder to start the whole process.
Great video, excellent explanation. But you have forgotten to clarify an important point: How does the tension in the Leyden jars continue to increase? After all, the electrons in the increasingly negatively charged jar must repel the electrons from the collector at some point, unless the tension at the collector keeps increasing to overcome this hurdle (and vice versa for the positive charges). The explanation for this phenomenon is hidden in the capacitor formula's: The two opposite sectors (one positively charged and the other negatively charged, in your video the ones at twelve o'clock ) together form a capacitor with a certain charge. The well known capacitor formulas are: C = εA/d and C=Q/V. Rewritten: Q/V=εA/d. (The capacity C, Farads drops out of the equation) The permittivity (ε), the surface area (A) and charge (Q) do not change (no leak assumed). Now that those two sectors at twelve o'clock are rotating away from each other, the mutual distance (d) does increase sharply. As a result, the (negative) voltage (V) across this capacitor must increase accordingly, and is always higher (lower) than the voltage across the Leyden jar. In theory, if there were no discharge at all (which is impossible) , the tension between the two jars could rise to infinity. I built a Wimshurst machine myself a few years ago. Maybe I will make a nice video with a detailed explanation concerning the build and theory. In the mean time you can see it sparking here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QrFva1FmDhk.html
Hello again Mr. RimstarOrg ! , Sir, I think I sort of solved the sector scraping problem. My Wimshurst Machine used four metal spikes to collect the charges. Two for one side and two for the other side. I just took a pair of pliers and removed them and replaced them with some aluminum tape shaped like a flat point that brushes up against the disks BUT wouldn't dig into them like the spikes did. Sir, after solving another problem I had I have to say that I have waaaaay better ESD than before. Its like the day I first got the machine. Good as new ! Okay, now I'm going to see if I can make a Wimshurst Machine FROM SCRATCH! The one thing this improvement to my Wimshurst Machine has taught me is that I should NEVER be afraid to experiment scientifically with Ideas and things ! If I can make a Wimshurst from scratch then I can make multiple units and drive them all with one dc motor and interconnect them with gears. At that point, "Skys' the limit" because I will be able to generate any amount of high voltage. I thank you sir for your videos, they're really helpful in mullng thins over in my mind. I hope I can talk like this with you from time to time, thank you again.
thanks for your video ;finnaly I understood how wimshurst machine works....I heard about brushless machine called bonneti machine ..would be great to se a movie with explanation how it works...here is some papper about bonneti machine www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/bonetti.html thank you again ..I just subscribed to your chanell ..
the secret is hidden right here, in plain sight. This is the same machine that starts up a Flux Liner (Black-Opps electro-gravitic vehicle), maybe a bit more sophisticated, but same idea
fantastic explanation mate. For all those who don't get it ... its all about shed tech, when high tech was something you could build in your shed! Today high tech is microchips and programming ... difficult to build in my shed!
wow really good explanation! I've always wondered how that worked. I've heard in the invention of X rays, the Wimshurst was used to generate high voltage for the first X-ray tube - still somewhat in its experimental stage
Wow!!!! Amazing demonstration, thank you (thank you!) so much for taking the time to do all this! It's so much fun I am so excited to one day build one of these to experiment and play around with they are so cool!
I am so greatful for this great video with the perfect balance of explanation and observable reactions happening. Thank you I have only been able to get this with this video
The Leyden jars are for getting bigger sparks. They collect additional charge so that when the spark gap breaks down, the spark will have more charge (current) and so will be bigger and brighter.
I made this video explaining how to make one using as simple parts as possible ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-puC6-UaT9Fk.html. It's not powerful enough for a lot of the demonstrations shown in this video but it works. I plan on showing how to make one that is powerful enough though.
So you turned the pyramids into a wheel! Well done, imagine your hand or the wheel been earth spinning, and your negative is the iron core! Every 100ft u go up it’s about 100kv now can you see how the system worked that lit earth up! Free energy baby. 👍🏻
Difference in potential as you gain elevation is due to lightning discharges to the Earth, not any pseudoscience of energy in the pyramids or a charged core...
Nice presentation. Let me understand the operation enough to ask questions. Why the capacitors continues to take charge and not saturate? or will the charge in capacitor flood back into the next charge carrier?
Brilliant explanation - much superior to others I have found on the internet. Ever since I first saw a Wimshurst machine at school, 50 odd years ago, I have been mystified by how it could possibly work. Now I know (I think). Thanks!
Ditto! 45 years ago there was one stored in the back of our Science/Physics classroom. I never knew the name or what it was for - thanks for teaching us!
You can get large sparks from a Van de Graaff generator too, you just need to make it bigger. I made a small Wimshurst machine and it's even less powerful than my coke can Van de Graaff generator. So I wouldn't say either is better. However, since you've already made a Van de Graaff, maybe it would be fun to try a Wimshurst machine this time.
This does not explain why it generates sparks when rotating only in one direction, nor the ozone smell, nor why it creates measurable radiation the longer you use it (try measuring with a dosimeter next to a collecter).
Thanks! It took a long time before I came up with how to explain it well, but I really wanted to do another "work of art" like I did with my crystal radio explanation ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0-PParSmwtE.html.
In my experience, no. There isn't usually much power available when you generate static electricity. When there's a spark there is but then you have to wait to build up for another spark which makes it not much power overall. Regarding this Wimshurst machine, the power output will always be lower than the power you use to turn the crank. And since Wimshurst machines have a lot of losses, they're also not very efficient.
@@RimstarOrg wimshurst USS Enterprise design . Wimshurst ghost Buster rigs designs. Wimshurst used in Welles time machine. In reality they don't use. Only in fantasy.
The fact is micro amps or milliamps current occurs , but how I=V/R equation conform with that? Where is so big resistance ? More over in example with 200meter ionized wire again (not a storm condition) pico amps current flows from earth to the top . I am confused
I understand how this works, but nobody seems to mention the voltage multiplication effect of the contra-rotating discs. At school we were taught that Q=CV. When two plates are opposite, they have a fixed charge; as they move apart, the charge remains the same, but the capacitance is reduced, causing the voltage to increase proportionately. Once the plates are at maximum distance, the voltage increase is sufficient to enable the charge to 'bleed-off' to the leyden jars via the corona between the plates and the collector points. Have I misunderstood something here or just missed a point?
Hmmm... Interesting. I was aware of the voltage increasing as capacitor plates are separated but hadn't considered any part it may play in a Wimshurst machine. That voltage is between the plates but I guess since the collectors are capacitively coupled through the collectors then the voltage on that side would be affected too.
Can you remove the "third capacitor" the one that sparks and connect all other capacitors into a battery and turn the current here into any usable energy?
Theoretically, yes. The voltage will likely be too high for the battery charging. Also, Wimshurst machines have been known to switch voltages while running -- one collector may be positive and the other negative, and then something happens to the charges on the sectors and all of a sudden the polarities at the collectors reverse. But if you can lower the voltage at the output then some diodes would take care of that.
@@RimstarOrg i kinda want to connect Wimshurst machine into a stirling engine to produce even the slightest useable energy, i wonder if i can do it with that configuration
At 3:34, the negative charge in the sector shown at the top repels the negative charge to the lower sector. That's what's really doing the repelling. The amount that will be repelled depends on how negative charged that top sector is.
Brilliant! I never knew they where as complex as that - the ones I played with as a boy in London's Science Museum are all mahogany and brass with most of the workings hidden away. So the one on your bike - could you put a xenon strobe tube across the spark gap and have a headlight that made it look like everything was static? (pun intended)
Hi, just looking at the output created by a Wimshurst machine, the spark, is it powerful to charge a battery? I remember way back in Highschool we would dare someone to place his finger between the 2 balls and get shocked. it was painful as i remember.!!!
There's probably enough energy to charge a battery, depending on the capacity of the battery it may take a while. The spark is high voltage though, in the thousands depending on how wide the spark gap is, so you'd have to somehow lower the voltage to something just above the battery voltage. It would probably be easier to remove the spark gap and the Leyden jars and instead take the energy directly from the collectors, putting them through some sort of circuit to make sure the voltage is just above the battery voltage.
your a professional narrator. i will watch all of your videos. i wish i had money to send you. what is your education? who are you? do you have a resume? you just seem to have appeared. your what utube is all about. have you ever thought of having a workshop were you teach people. were are you located? your like the wizard of oz.
I've been teaching in various ways all my career, it's an addiction. After I did programming, for many years I traveled all around the world teaching QNX to engineers (blackberry.qnx.com/en), but I've also taught evening classes for a local school board, and so on. I've also made movies when I was a teenager, and I've always enjoyed making things, science, and electronics. So RU-vid allows me to combine all those things. Thanks for watching my videos. I'm glad you enjoy them.
A small LED might light up. I know I've seen people put small LEDs where the neutralizer bars are, so cut a neutralizer bar and insert and LED. That works.
I agree. It neutralizes in the sense that it makes the charge at the two ends the same, neutralizing them with respect to each other but they still carry a charge, just the same charge. They're not neutralized though in the sense that they have a neutral charge. Confusing.
@@RimstarOrg "It neutralizes in the sense that it makes the charge at the two ends the same" I thought that too. I think a better name would be "Charge pre-collectors". The collectors would be the end-collectors.
The Testatika generator belongs to the group of electrostatically influenced machines, which have been developed since the 19th century, most notably the Wimhurst machine in 1880. In Switzerland, Europe, late 20th century, 1990s, the Swiss corporation Methernitha is said to have developed a self-powered generator (powered by its own feedback energy) in the form of a circuit. electronic. The Testatika generator is a self-powered generator, with the initial starting voltage being generated in the manner of a Wimhurst machine.
No hay explicacion logica sobre la distribución de cargas; ya que ambas botellas tienen las mismas oportunidades de captación de electrones. ¿ Y que serian esas cargas pintadas de rojo ( +) ? . Tal vez Protones ?. Disculpe si no lo entendi muy bien por el idioma, pues yo solo hablo Español. Pero me di cuenta de su explicación. Pienso que el estudio de la electrostatica aun esta en pañales. Saludos.
Estoy de acuerdo. Pero por lo que yo entendí ambas botellas no se cargan igual, y por ello entre ellas se crea una diferencia de potencial que se iguala o equilibra cuando salta la chispa en el explosor.
nice video it helped me to understand the aparatus, thank you very much! but one thing is missing a bit. the charge at the opposite sectors must become continuosly higher because otherwise it would not accumulate in the leyden jars. the fact that at the beginning it have only ONE sector charged and it influences charge separation at TWO sectors on the other plate makes the over all electric field stronger. this two charged sectors then rotate further and influence even stronger charge separation on the other side sectors and so on. so the charge separation effect adds up every time the "new/higher " charge meets the opposite neutralizer, and therefore charge becomes alternately higher on the front side and back side and cycles clockwise and anticlockwise.
That's correct. The charge on the sectors builds but quite a bit. The limiting factor is the leakiness of the sectors. In the dark, they glow with corona at their sharp edges and with corona between them. You can also smell ozone. If you don't collect at least some of the charge at the collectors then it becomes hard to turn the crank due to the strong attraction between the opposite sectors which in turn is due to the amount of charge on them.
I must be slow. I don't understand how this generates a charge and why it keeps growing. All I see in the description is a lot of capacitors and wires holding charges. If you put a charge on a capacitor and then start connecting it to other capacitors the charges move and distribute but they don't grow in magnatude. They just keep getting smaller as you spread the charge over more capacitors. I can grasp how this acts as a charge "sorter" so random starting charges get sorted by the action of the neutralizer bars moving charges. But I don't get how those sorted charges can ever exceed the total starting charge. So what is the mechanism that causes the the charge to grow larger in this device? I understand the mechanical motion of the device is the source of the energy generating the charge but I don't grasp how this works. And why are the collector's pointed air gaps? Why not use another wire and brush to collect the charge? And what keeps the charge in the liden jars from returning to the disk? I don't understand why there is a one-way flow at work there.
My friend is convinced that this device can be used as a source of free energy. "I can harness this, regulate it, and then store it so it can later be used to chrage my batteries!" Im not sure how to explain how that is not exactly likely. He feels he just has to start it and walk away. Then come back to full batteries. That isnt true is it?@@CurtWelch
I think the reason they don't touch the plates is to allow a higher voltage to build up on the Leyden jars and across the spark gap. If they touch the plates then the plates that they touch will become a part of the larger high voltage capacitor and would probably discharge to adjacent plates. At least that's my guess.
@@RimstarOrg If the charge jumps the gap from the influencing plate to the capacitor couldn't we assume the same in reverse (the capacitor can jump back to the influencing plate)? And wouldn't the capacitor, once having the greater charge, function in this manner? So technically it should never obtain a greater charge (voltage wise) than the influencing plate can provide? If it did, wouldn't it push against the influencing plate? It seems they could only ever truly be equally charged (again, voltage wise, I guess?).* Though, the capacitor being double walled increases it's capacitance due to the attraction of the opposite 'capacitor plate.' Of course the 'influencing plate' is still a part of that circuit..so, if connected, the capacitor should still draw charges away. Once full, the nearby influencing plates have the same charge so they shouldn't be affected any more than the one touching the circuit. It may arc to the previously used plate, I suppose; though it's capacitance is low so not much loss would occur and only at peak charge anyway. In fact, since the capacitance is greater on the capacitor, it's likely 'capacitively' charging until voltage is equal; where they both (the capacitor and the influencer plates) would then, I believe, simply work together to ionize the air (hence the coronal discharge you mentioned that becomes visible). *Interestingly, I think this is analogous to fluid dynamics, specifically hydraulics; where it is easy for a small syringe to inject a larger one while the reverse is more difficult. This would mean a smaller influencer plate could provide greater voltages and/or capacitance? Does the small plate actually have the same maximum voltage capability as the capacitor only with less capacitance? I was just watching your cd wimshurst machine video and it occurred to me that, if it doesn't touch, the plates probably don't fully discharge which means they carry on somewhat over/under charged, too. So causing it to touch should only maximize the transfer; where the wire itself would probably produce the coronal discharge (being pointy by comparison), once the capacitor is full. Unless connecting them weakens the influence and the air is needed as a medium?? I don't know, but It sure is fun to think about! I definitely enjoy understanding too, though, so thanks for your guidance and help! Edit: Lines of force must come into play too. I wonder if adding a point to the influencer (lile the collectors) would aid in the transfer and reduce ionization/coronal discharge of the air. Maybe even nested conical shapes? The emitter, like a solid pointed cone and the collector covering it like a dunce cap?
Yeah, it's a tough question for me too. If I were to try to apply my answer to your case, where the collectors do touch the sectors, then I'd say that you're not getting much loss from sector to sector. The sectors I'd worry about losses at are the one which has just passed a collector and the one that the collector is touching. The one that just passed the collector would be neutral and so there'd be a big potential difference between that one and the one touching the collector. That could lead to corona between them and conduction through that corona.
It's like the first electromagnet disk player... The design is similar to USS Enterprise... The power too. Took a dream catcher .. Replaced wood with brass rings. Replaced string with coated copper wire .
If you're referring to glass and/or plastic disks with no sectors on them, some do still do it that way. I'm no expert on that type. My guess is that you'd need to have the neutralizers not touching the disks but be sharp points facing them across an air gap like the collectors. That way they can interact with a larger area of the disks than just what they would otherwise come in contact with. If they used surface contact then they'd only interact with where they touched because the glass or plastic doesn't conduct electric charge over its surface. But I could be wrong about how those work since I haven't looked into them.
@@RimstarOrg The one I saw was supposedly an original and had etched glass segments. I bought one of the Chinese reproductions but I was unhappy with the wibbly wobbly stand and the copper stranded brushes so I made a frame from lab materials fitted onto a mahogany base and replaced the brushes for carbon strands from HT ignition leads. I love scientific displays and your channel is very educational and clear. Check out my Jacobs ladder: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4eHp7AwKf7k.html
I have to say, this was a beautiful explanation of the wimhurst machine. I'm taking an intro to engineering technology class right now and we have a paper to write about people who made breakthroughs in STEM and I wanted to do my paper over someone who dealt with electricity and I came across Wimhurst and this machine. But it was so confusing to me how Wikipedia explained it and I was sure that no website could explain it in a way that I could understand it. Thus, enter your video! It was a really thorough explanation with good illustration, and I appreciate you making this video~! Have a good day to everyone! (●´ω｀●)💝
Why do charges accumulating to the collectors rather then draining from them? Unlike Van de Graaff, these collectors are not neutral (spark gap gets potential from there). Edit: Trying to answer my own question... I guess the collecting combs will reverse charge those sectors anyway. But as the discs kept rotating, charge will build further up on the sectors until reaching an equilibrium.
I had a Wimshurst Machine when I was a kid and played with it endlessly, but it did not have any Leyden Jars. It worked perfectly well without them giving an almost continuous spark. We replaced the crank with a shaft that allowed an electric drill to be attached but the extra speed didn't make much difference. I note that to get it started, at least in my experience, you wind it up and then allow it to slow down and it was during the slowdown that it most likely fired up. The video explanation is somewhat lacking. Why would electrons from across the neutraliser away from positive charges that attract them to other side where there is an approximately equal charge (positive and negative charged particles) causing an excess of electrons on one side and deficit on the other. This flies in the face of thermodynamic laws as energy *should* be required to cause such an imbalance (to drive electrons away from positive charges across the neutraliser to the other side where there is no significant electron deficit). The other puzzling thing with the explanation given is that many Wimshurst Machines that can be seen just by googling show the neutraliser bar not lining up between two metal pads on either side but when on one metal pad on one side is between pads on the other side. This is how I recall mine. The alternative explanation is that the static charge on the plastic disc is being transferred to the metal disk. That would explain why the voltage is around 20,000 which is typical for static charges. This also corresponds with the nature of Vandegraph generators that also pick up static electricity from a surface where static is likely to accumulate (eg insulators).
At 3:34, you can see a negatively charged sector on the disk opposite the one with the neutralizer bar. That's the sector with only green negative signs showing near the top of the video frame. That's what does the repelling of the electrons to the neutralizer bar. There's a similar sector on that same disk at the other end of the neutralizer bar that's positively charged. It attracts electrons toward it away from the neutralizer bar. So it's the influence of those two sectors which provides the imbalance. The energy source for this whole machine is ultimately the mechanical energy of turning the crank. As for neutralizer brushes which aren't perfectly arranged to touch two sectors at a time, if you ever run your Wimshurst machine in complete darkness, and if it's charging up enough, then you'll see a bluish (or some say purpilish) glow between and around the sectors at the top. If it isn't producing enough charge then the glow will be too dim to see well. That's corona and is ions leaking from the edges of the sectors. It's considered a loss because much of it goes to the surrounding air. It's also electrically conductive and so has the effect of electrically smearing out the sectors such that in that area they're one big sector.
@@RimstarOrg I used to run mine in darkness. The electric drill would glow with static electricity as well ha ha. Try the machine with misaligned brushes so that only one is on a metal pad at a time and you'll find it still works. As for the charge going uphill, if your hypothesis is correct then initially neutralising the metal plates would prevent the machine from working at all. But it does work because static on the disc is transferred to the plates. As I understand it the principle is the same for any static charge buildup such as combs through hair, silk rubbing, walking across certain surfaces etc....and rubbing a brush over an insulating plate that can accumulate static is another one :)
I agree, it should still work with misaligned brushes. As I said, there's an electrically conductive corona in the gap between the sectors in that area. So a neutralizer brush that's in between sectors is electrically connected to the sectors on either side of it. I just didn't cover it in the video because there are a lot of things that could be discussed and so I kept it to the basics. I wouldn't say the charge is going uphill. Whenever you have a charge imbalance then charge moves in order to restore that balance. In this case the sectors on the other disk are creating a temporary imbalance on the sectors in contact with the brushes (including the area between the sectors) while the sectors are opposite each other. Regarding neutralizing the metal plates preventing the machine from working at all, that's exactly what happens. Luckily in reasonably dry air there's usually some extra charge somewhere (I say that in the video at 1:16). But if there isn't then you have to provide an influence to get it started (I talk about that at 9:06).
Wimshurst enterprise was space ship builder. He built the first working model of a star ship enterprise. I understand now... How to ride lightening . Sling shot effect. O to warp in one second. Not slingshot around earth but slingshot from space.. Why am i born on a world of deception ? Could you help c s lewis ?
