Dollard-Eric: central claims
Source gap (updated after QE). Step 0 now supplies OCR text for both scans of the "Free-Energy Research of Eric Dollard" compilation (29 pages each). The 2006 scan 73155-Eric-Dollard-Notes-19861991.pdf is a duplicate of the 2010 scan by page-by-page OCR comparison (pp.21 and 23 are figure pages with garbled OCR; pp.26-27 were not checked one by one). OCR is noisy, so the Part I and Part II equations (pp.13-19: C = 1/c^2, the factor "p", t0^2 = -LC) have NOT been transcribed from page images, and whether Part I and Part II agree is still open. EPDPaper.pdf was fully read (deep read, pp.1-30) but contains no drawings, numbers or test data, and its Part Three (San Andreas seismic warning) is missing from the file. Dollard's longer books (Theory of Wireless Power, Symbolic Representation of the Generalized Electric Wave, Condensed Intro to Tesla Transformers) are not in the folder. To fix this, obtain those, the cited BSRF booklets and any measurement records for the telluric or seismic claims. Later steps must say plainly when a conclusion rests on [memory] alone (multipactor physics, J.H. Nelson's RCA work, superconductor persistent currents, standard Tesla/Marconi/Alexanderson history).
- Electric energy is carried by the space (the "aether") between conductors, not by electrons inside the wires, so conductors reflect the field and insulators are the true conductors. [read: Notes Part I pp.13-16; interview p.3]
- Electromagnetic induction has two independent parts, a dielectric (electric-field) one and a magnetic one, and the dielectric part can propagate separately and faster than light (Dollard cites pi/2 times c via Tesla and Wheatstone; the digests wrongly read this as sqrt 2), carrying "many amperes" of "dielectric current" through free space without electrons. [read: Part II p.18; interview pp.3-4]
- The conventional picture of capacitance as stored electrons is wrong: capacitance is dielectric energy stored inward along lines of force, the dual of inductance's outward magnetic storage, and its sudden release can exceed light speed and yield effectively infinite current. [read: 1990 article]
- Energy that a broadcast tower does not return to the circuit or dissipate as heat is not radiated but lost to "hysteresis of the aether" (Dollard himself hedges that this "may not be the correct interpretation"). [read: Part II p.18]
- Telluric (earth-interior) waves are complex: a transverse electromagnetic (TEM) part plus a "longitudinal magneto-dielectric" (L.M.D.) part whose fields are collinear with propagation and whose "counter-velocity" has dimension per unit length per unit time, with a sub-harmonic series Fo, Fo/3, Fo/5 against TEM's Fo, 3Fo, 5Fo. A loaded aerial with many earth contacts (reciprocity not applying), a transient-filter network, parametric amplifiers and an overhead rejection aerial can receive them, and a specific pre-earthquake waveform would give advance seismic warning on faults such as the San Andreas. The typescript gives no frequencies, loadings, spacings, lead times or test data. [read: EPDPaper pp.3-30]
- Dielectric fields are the "productive and advanced" side of electricity, from which free energy (energy that grows rather than decays) and Reich-style orgone effects could come, whereas magnetism only consumes it. Dollard names Farnsworth's multipactor tube as "probably the only real free energy device that anyone ever demonstrated which can be reproduced", calls every other public claimant a fraud except one unnamed person, and says the speed of light continually changes, changing all capacitances and orgone effects. [read: interview pp.2, 7, 11]
Peripheral interview assertions are recorded in facts.json but not treated as central: the Sonoma State four-year planets/weather/solar-flare study (pp.5-6), RCA planetary-angle radio prediction (p.8), geomagnetic reversal as a "dielectric" regime needing ceramic compasses (p.6), the planet "humming at 60 cycles" (p.10), and the Tesla/Marconi/Alexanderson lineage in EPDPaper pp.14-20.