Attempts to conduct high voltage through quartz crystal...

One of my many attempts to conduct 15,000 volts through a rough piece of natural quartz crystal.

[TrasherBiner]

Should be titled "electric arch between two wires with high voltage, and there so happened to be a quartz crystal there"

[reinabouaravong]

The connection looks like it was mainly thru the copper wire.

[carissakinney]

Try making positive and negative terminals on the crystal like a light bulb by drilling a small hole into the base of the crystal and insert a wire into to it. The other terminal will be wrapped around the crystal. Use variable voltage and see what happens. Later try adding another crystal next to it, reverse polarity setup. For example, if the first crystal has the inside wire setup as the negative terminal then the second crystal will be the opposite. I wonder will the 2 crystal interact being reversed polarity and in close proximity of each other.

[PetrolHeadMike]

If I could make a suggestion, compress the crystals with a 10 ton table jack while passing current through it.

[heavycurrent]

You didn‘t scrap the enamel off the wire around the crystal, so the crystal is just floating there ungrounded.

[cashbrown]

Luke: "What's that Uncle Ben?"
Obi Wan: "Behold... it's called a lightsaber! It was your father's."

[deanc.]

What about resonace frequency? Compression? Argone?

[connorfisher]

Meissner showed negative weight, increased size, and transformation from clear to opaque optical effects in a quartz sample, about 1mm in size. That is to say it noticeably got bigger, changed from clear to opaque, and levitated while being able to pick up a weight along with it, maybe 40 additional pounds. Try a much smaller sample, with tighter dimesnions, polished to high tolerances, at a higher voltage, and see what happens. Look into meissner effect.

[totalbullion]

I wonder if a double terminated crystal can conduct electricity from one end to the other? That would be a cool test.

[emperoraries]

If u want energy from a quartz crystal i think the piezoelectric route is the way 2 go. Cool video, did the crystal look any different afterward?

[BocaAvilez]

Crystals work more with electromagnetic frequency, not electric conductor.

[samueljackson]

Your on the right track.
But you need to super heat the crystal to a plasma state. Then throw in some ferromagnetic particles.
Then bombard it with ionized helium.
The ancients used refined uranium to get the crystal to a plasma state. Through a fusion process.
However, please note they only use micro-grams of the stuff.
That was contained in magnesite.
Once you have a stabilized reaction chamber. That power source will last for 49 or more years. Depending on the decay rate of the crystal used.
It can also be metered to the power level required. By oscillating the magnetic polarity of the ion beam.

[hybrid]

Project LIGHTSABER in its infancy stages

[mrdodge]

can you please try the same thing but milling a bore into the bottom of crystal and have the electrode linear instead of a coil wrapped around it so the energy must pass through the crystal?

[tyreza]

What if it works and that too much energy and get teleported to a hostile alien planet... crystals...

[artnum]

Remember the answer "there is full of stars".
Tiny little crack on a crystaloïdes with a special design copper make the crystal glow from inside. Use glass or crystal, the phénomena is cause by electrostatic, the crystal act as a spark gap. This is a special crystal made with 2 micrometers cracks. Surround by a special electromagnetic coil like it is used by somes sp.

[kreynolds]

Air is going to be a better conductor of electricity by 4000-6000 times over the same distance. you need dielectric with a higher break down voltage than quarts to force much of any electricity through quarts.

[lordleon]

You did it wrong! But great job coming this far, I especially like the holder for the quartz. You have to use a resonant frequency square wave (just keep increasing until weird stuff happens) for the direct current, the better option is of course to let the crystal itself resonate in the circuit but that is difficult in theory and practice. Take care.

[alexandergomez]

Dude you just figured out lightsabers.

[funkstication]

The crystal is the heart of the blade.