Glossary

Can you help me help newcomers and dispel early confusion

Many of you have asked for a glossary of common terms I and the community use. Things have got real urgent since I understand there will be 6 or so Czech participants in next weeks BRNO “Advanced Energy Systems” meeting that I and Paul Harris will be hosting and a company will be hired to provide realtime translation. Of course they are more nervous than you guys, as they will be newcomers translating for newcomers.

So if you have a term that you don’t understand or you think is difficult for a newcomer, then please offer it in the comments, ideally with your best understanding attached and any references. Examples like:-

• Toroidal Moment - is a term in the multipole expansion of electromagnetic fields, distinct from the traditional electric and magnetic multipoles. It describes a specific configuration of currents or charges that form a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) structure. In simpler terms, imagine a solenoid (a coil of wire) bent into a torus. The current flowing through this toroidal solenoid creates a magnetic field with unique properties, different from those created by standard electric or magnetic dipoles.

• Transmutation - A process where one chemical element or isotope is converted into another

• Exotic Vacuum Object - Ken Shoulders' Exotic Vacuum Object (EVO) is a concept referring to highly organized clusters of electrons, often described as micron-sized entities with soliton behaviour. These clusters can contain electron populations on the order of Avogadro's number. EVOs are notable for their ability to interact with solid materials in a way that causes atomic disruption without conventional heating, suggesting a form of low-energy phase transformation

• Coherent Matter - Refers to a state of matter where particles exhibit a high degree of coherence, meaning their wave functions are synchronised in phase and amplitude. This coherence can lead to unique quantum phenomena, such as superfluidity and superconductivity

• Condensate - (including Bose-Einstein) a form of coherent matter.

• Phase Singularity - The vortex point around which the phase of a condensate's wave function winds.

• LENR - Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

• Ball Lightning / Thunderbolt - A traditionally poorly understood natural phenomenon characterised by a glowing, spherical objects that can vary in size from a few centimetres to several meters in diameter. It has been considered by some researchers such as Ken Shoulders, that all spark discharges and lightning are lead by a micro-ball lightning.

I will add some of your entries to the list.

Thank you for helping me help our community to grow.