Mysterious lift of drill in downwards water flow

I learned of a very interesting and paradoxical looking phenomenon. Thanks for Shamoon Ahmed for the link. A drill with a helical geometry raises in a downwards fluid flow (see this) This is in conflict with the naive expectations.

1. Suppose first that momentum is conserved. By momentum conservation water must get downwards directed momentum if the drill obtains upwards directed momentum. If there is no slipping, just the opposite should happen. Therefore the situation could be like in a turbulent flow: the water and the drill do not directly touch each other. There is indeed turbulence as one can see.

   But what makes possible the slipping? It has been quite recently learned that the surface of water in air has thin ice-like layer for which TGD suggests and explanation (see this). The surface between drill and water would be covered by a very thin ice layer so that slipping would take place naturally. Drill is like a skater. Also the boundary layer in the water (liquid) flow past a body could be a thin ice-sheet. Second analogy is as a screw penetrating upstream.

2. But is the momentum really conserved? Water is accelerated in the gravitational field: this gives it momentum. Water is rotating already before the addition of the drill. The downwards kinematic pressure, which increases downwards, pushes the drill having a helical geometry. If there is no friction fixing the drill to water flow, the drill has no other option than raise. The constraint due to helicality forces the drill to rotate.

Water in the vortex and drill would rotate in opposite directions and helicality constraint would transform the rotational motion of the drill to a translational motion and force the rotation of drill to gain upwards directed momentum.

3. This raises some questions.
   1. Could there be a connection with the fact that in the Northern/Southern hemisphere water flowing in a water tub rotates in a unique direction (kind of parity breaking)?
   2. What is the role of the handedness of the drill? One would expect that the drill with an opposite handedness rotate in an opposite direction? What if the handedness of the drill does not favor the natural rotation direction for the vortex? Do these effects tend to cancel.

There might be a connection with the “ordinary” hydrodynamics. The drill raising in the fluid flow is analogous to a propeller. Could also ordinary propeller involve the same basic mechanism and act like a skater and in this way minimize dissipative energy losses? It is known that propellers induce cavitation as evaporation of water and there is anecdotal evidence from power plants that more energy is liberated in the process than one would expect. Recently it was found that the mere irradiation of water by light leads to its evaporation as a generation of droplets, which would have ice-like surface layer consisting of the fourth phase of water (this requires energy): Pollack effect again! Could dark photons with a non-standard value of Planck constant provide the energy needed for the cavitation creating a vapour phase with a larger total area of fourth phase of water?

Runcel D. Arcaya informed me of the work of a brilliant experimentalist and inventor Victor Schauberger related to the strange properties of flowing water. This work relates in an interesting manner to the effect discussed. I have written about Schauberger’s findings about to the ability of fishes too swim “too” easily upstream. Gravitation is involved also now. Could the bodily posture of the fish generate the counterpart of the helical geometry? Could the fish as a living organism help to generate the fourth phase of water in the water bounding their skin by Pollack effect, which requires the presence of a gel phase besides energy source (IR radiation for instance) to transform part of protons of water molecules to dark photons with a higher energy.

Schauberger also invented a method of water purification using vortex flow: the reason for why the method works remained unclear. In Pollack effect, the negatively charged exclusion zones (EZs) spontaneously purify themselves. This conflicts with the thermodynamical intuitions. The TGD explanation is in terms of reversed arrow of time which explains the purification process as normal diffusion leading to the decay of gradients but taking place with an opposite arrow of time. Could the purification of in vortex flow be caused by the Pollack effect creating the surface layers consisting of the fourth phase of water (EZs)?

Schauberger developed the notion of living water and believed that spring water is somehow very special in this respect. In TGD water is regarded as a multiphase system involving magnetic body with layers labelled by the values of effective Planck constant h_eff. The larger the value of the h_eff, the higher the (basically algebraic complexity) and “IQ” of the system. Gravitational magnetic body has the largest value of effective Planck constant. Spring water is pure and could be this kind of highly complex system. Also systems involving turbulence and vortices are very complex.

See the article TGD Inspired Model for Freezing in Nano Scales and the chapter TGD and Quantum Hydrodynamics.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

For the lists of articles (most of them published in journals founded by Huping Hu) and books about TGD see this.