Using the Biefeld-Brown Effect to Measure the Ion Acceleration Distribution,and Ion Quantity

The Biefeld-Brown Device (BBD) is an electric condenser which normally uses the electromotive force to accelerate electrons from the anode of the condenser towards the cathode. The cathode has been found to be more efficient when it has a large surface area. The telegrapher's equations jump to mind quickly as the conductance parameter (G) will measure the ion exchange with the environment outside the BBD. Specifically the electrons will travel through the air and ultimately interact with the air to give levitation. L and C parameters will begin to describe the flux of the flow of ions around the BBD.

There will be a real difference between the telegrapher's parameters at the anode and the cathode of the BBD as they are oriented differently with respect to the ground and they have a different mechanical shape. Electrical properties with respect to the emission of electrons and the propensity to accept electrons at the anode compared with the cathode.

But what can we use this BBD to do in order to understand the electromagnetic properties of gravity and how ions behave to give us the gravitational effect described in previous posts? If a BBD is able to levitate in a YouTube video we have to wonder what the ion exchange looks like on either side of a BBD levitation. We have the ground 'firing' electrons one way and we have the condenser at 30 kV or above firing electrons in the opposite direction.

The anode is well hidden by being smaller helping more of the cathode's emitted electrons counter those electrons coming from the Earth.

What is of real interest is that the electrons leaving the cathode do so in a discrete manner. What does the discrete distribution of electron emissions look like? How many electrons leave the cathode over what period of time? Over a small and discrete period of time how many electrons leave the cathode? It would seam that the Poisson distribution would be a good place to start for any analysis. If we knew what sort of ion distribution levitated a BBD we would have clues to the nature of gravity's electron launch and ion pull described in previous posts.

The Poisson distribution tends to fit behaviour that is discrete. Also as one breaks the time scale into increasingly smaller slices all events should fit in a separate slice of time. The rate of electron emission taken to the power of the number of electron emissions observed in a time period is multiplied by Euler's constant to the negative power of the rate of electrons emitted from the cathode. Now we divide by the factorial of number of electrons emitted from the cathode in the observed period. That is the Poisson distribution applied to the BBD cathode.

Also, important data points are the speed and acceleration profile of the electrons as they leave the cathode. For the exact same reason our interest in the distributions of ions leaving the cathode of the BBD we want to know how the BBD accelerates electrons into a drift velocity in the air underneath the device or in the ground.

The distribution of electron emission from the cathode of the BBD, the acceleration, drift velocity of electrons of a BBD would help us understand how gravity really works.