In northwest China in autonomous region Xinjiang Uygur is a hill that can rightfully be called anomalous. On it, water flows up the slope, not down. This place was discovered by two tourists in 2003. They traveled by car, and he also contributed to everything unusual and mysterious.
The tourists left the car in the middle of the hill and, having accidentally released it from the handbrake, discovered that the iron friend had gone not down, but up with increasing speed. He quickly reached the top of the hill, and the speedometer showed a speed of 30 km/h. This experiment was repeated several times, and the car kept moving upward.
Next, it was just the turn of the water. The liquid poured from the bottle flowed not down, but up the slope, as if mocking the laws of physics. All this led people to a state of extreme amazement, and they turned to specialists for clarification.
They tried to explain the mysterious anomalous phenomenon by the geological features of the area. In principle, the experts followed the right way, since 20 years earlier, Chinese professor Fan Xiaoming had already studied this amazing natural effect. As a result of numerous experiments, he came to the conclusion that geomagnetism and changes in atmospheric pressure are to blame. It is thanks to these factors that water flows up and not down.
The professor conducted experiments on a separate asphalt area 60 meters long with an inclination angle of 15 degrees. On it there was a car with the engine turned off, round metal objects, and water invariably moving upward. When climbing this section in a car, the driver pressed the brakes as if driving down a hill. The same thing happened with the bicycle.
It should be noted that people who visited this anomalous area subsequently began to experience mental problems. If they had chronic diseases, they worsened. Even several deaths were recorded.
There are other similar places on the planet. In Israel, near the city of Beit Shemesh, there is a mountain along which water flows upward. One of the tourists put the car in neutral and released the brake. The car rolled upward. It is quite possible that this phenomenon associated with magnetic properties Earth, as round objects made of plastic roll downhill. This anomalous zone in Israel it is 600 meters long.
In Georgia, right in the center of Tbilisi, there is Mount St. David. Not far from the church located on the mountainside, an anomalous zone is also observed. There, on one section of the road, cars with their engines turned off drive uphill for some time. This phenomenon Scientists don’t explain it in any way, because they simply don’t study it. The same applies to other similar anomalous areas. And they are available in Moldova, South Korea, Romania, Azerbaijan.
It is noteworthy that cars and water move upward where there are asphalt roads. Maybe it’s all about the special properties of asphalt? However, many experts on anomalous phenomena are inclined to think that asphalt has nothing to do with it. It only enhances the effect, making it more obvious. After all, where there is no asphalt, cars practically don’t drive there, and water simply soaks into the ground. Thus, the phenomenon exists, and it requires competent scientific explanations.
The water tower of one of the collective farms in the Spassky district of the Gorky region is unremarkable in appearance. She has been supplying the villagers for years spring water. However, when you get closer, you will not hear the usual noise of the water pump - it is not there! And although the source is located significantly below the level of the upper tank, the water constantly, with only short breaks, rises upward! Isn't it a miracle? No, it’s just that a Gorky craftsman, a fitter L. Cherepkov, managed to invent and test in practice an original hydraulic installation in which... the energy of the source itself is used to lift water. We invite our readers to get acquainted with the principles of its operation and design.
Simple installation of water supply in rural areas: The electric pump supplies water to the pressure tank, from where it is supplied to consumers. But electricity to raise water is often generated by local hydroelectric power stations by converting the pressure of a moving stream. So, in this case, is it not possible to do without the help of electricity at all, forcing only the source of water to work - a stream, a spring? This can be done using a simple hydraulic installation that operates on the principle of a kind of “swing”: draining a certain amount of water ensures that part of it rises to a certain height above the source.
The structure of a motorless automatic water lift is shown in Figure 1. Its main parts are: a water tank, a source well, pressure and air sealed tanks with valve mechanisms and connecting pipes.
Water from the spring fills the well. As soon as its level reaches the inlet of the connecting pipe 9, it begins to flow into the pressure tank. When it is filled, the level in the well will rise to the edge of pipe 8 and water will begin to flow into the air tank. The pressure of the air compressed there is transmitted through pipe 2 to the pressure tank, and since the height H1 is greater than H2 by the amount of pressure loss from resistance in the pipes, water from there will rise into the water tank. The reverse flow of water from the pressure tank into the well will be prevented by the closed check valve A.
Rice. 1. Water lift diagram:
1 - air tank, 2 - air pipe, 3 - pressure tank, 4 - well, 5 - spring, 6 - water tank, 7 - discharge pipe, 8 - pressure pipe, 9 - connecting pipe; A, B - valves of the pressure tank.
The supply of water to the water tank will continue until the air tank is filled with water. At the same time, its valve mechanism will operate and the water will flow into the drain hole. Then the work cycle is repeated.
The valve mechanism of the air tank (Fig. 2) works as follows. Water entering through pipe 3, displacing air into the pressure tank, fills the air tank. Having risen in it to the upper level of the cylinder, the water will raise the float 10, which will close the valve 13, blocking access to the float glass 2. It will only be able to get into it through the upper cut of the glass - when all the air is displaced into the pressure tank. When filling the glass
The float with its levers will open the air and drain rivets, communicating the pressure tank with the atmosphere, and the air valve with the drain pipe 14. The valves will remain open until the tank is empty. And only when the water flows out of the cylinder 11 through a small hole 12, the float 10 will open the drain valve 13 of the glass with its lever. Float 2 will drop and close valves 8 and 15 - the tank is ready for use again.
The performance of such a water lift depends on the flow rate of the source, the height of the water rise, and the diameter of the pipes. The existing installation with a water drop of H1 = 8.2 m and a pressure of H2 = 7 m has a capacity of 21,312 liters of water per day. One cycle of charging the tanks takes 15 minutes and supplies 222 liters to the water tower, draining 507 liters from the air tower.
Rice. 2. Air tank valve mechanism:
1 - glass, 2 - float, 3 - pressure pipe, 4 - air pipe, 5, 6, 7 - float levers, 8 - air valve, 9 - lever, 10 - float, 11 - cylinder, 12 - bypass hole, 13 - valve, 14 - drain pipe, 15 - drain valve.
The installation is simple in design and can be made from readily available materials in small machine shops. Reliability, trouble-free operation and autonomy allow such a water lift to be operated far from power lines and used to create artificial reservoirs, irrigation systems, and other household needs. Thanks to automatic mode, the system can long time work without human supervision.
The diagram shows only one version of such an installation, operating on the principle of a hydraulic compressor. To obtain greater pressure, the system can be made two-stage: with a sequential rise of water in two pressure tanks. The absence of a hydraulic connection between the air and pressure tank allows the installation to operate on two sources of water, when, for example, a clean spring has a low productivity, and a fast-moving mountain stream flowing nearby is unsuitable for drinking. Then spring water can only flow into the pressure tank, and from the stream into the air tank, creating the necessary pressure in the system.
If the readers of the magazine are interested in my message, I will be happy to share my experience and new ideas with them.
L. Cherepnov, Gorky.
In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, there is an anomalous hill along the slope of which water flows not down, but up.
The strange hill was discovered in 2003 by two tourists in a mountain range located 10 km from the village of Banjiegou in Jitai County. The events that happened to them next defy explanation. So, having stopped the car in which they were traveling at the bottom of a V-shaped depression located at the top of a hill and removing it from the brakes, the tourists were surprised to find that the car itself began to move up the western slope with increasing speed, which by the time it reached the top of the slope reached 30 km/h.
The tourists were even more amazed by the fact that the water spilled on the western slope flowed not down, but up, towards the top.
Some experts are trying to explain these anomalous phenomena by the geological features of the area. However, these facts are confirmed by a test carried out by Lanzhou University professor Fan Xiaoming at the end of the last century. So, on a local area 60 m long, all round objects and cars with their engines turned off spontaneously move upward, and in addition, water flows up the slope with a slope of 15 degrees.
To travel this section by car, bicycle or even on roller skates, you need to forget about all logic. When climbing, the driver has to press the brake rather than the gas as the car begins to pick up speed.
Professor Fan Xiaoming believes that the cause of this anomalous phenomenon is geomagnetism or changes in atmospheric pressure. Just in case, everyone who wants to see how water flows up the slope not down, but up, is warned: often people who have visited such “mysterious” places subsequently experience mental disorders, they begin to get sick often, and several deaths have been recorded.
There are several other similar places in the world
Previously, it was repeatedly mentioned about strange phenomena occurring near Megure Hill (in Romanian - “mound”) in the town of Bacau in Romania. There, in the early 90s, a large treasure was discovered - 2000 silver coins from the era of the Roman emperor Trajan. After this discovery, some unknown force began to push out all foreign objects - even cars - from the foot of the hill. Local correspondents sent to investigate reported their experience: “The hood of the car lifted as if by a mighty underground spring, and the car drove back to the top of the hill!”
In addition, the actual repetition of anomalous phenomena in China is observed in Israel. Eyewitness asserts that near Beit Shemesh the water also rises up the slope. The tourist, having heard enough stories about a similar phenomenon, decided to conduct an experiment - he stopped the car on this mountain, put it in neutral and released the brake. Contrary to expectations, the car rolled upward.
However, according to the tourist, this is not due to magnetic properties, since the plastic balls rolled downhill just fine. The picture clearly shows how the spilled water flows not down, but up - to the edge of the pass, which is quite clearly visible. This anomaly is observed along the entire length of the highway, approximately 600 meters, right up to the intersection of this road with the main highway.
The eyewitness could not somehow explain such phenomena, but said that this place is esoterically unusual - it is associated with the loss of the Ark of the Covenant. It was in these places that the Jews lost a rather large chest with stone tablets, where the 10 commandments were inscribed.
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This question is not nearly as unreasonable as it may seem. In fact, is water just that colorless liquid that is poured into a glass? The ocean that covers almost our entire planet, our entire wonderful Earth, in which life originated millions of years ago, is water. Clouds, clouds, fogs that carry moisture to all living things on the earth's surface are also water. The endless ice deserts of the polar regions, snow covers covering almost half of the planet - and this is water. Beautiful, irreproducible is the endless variety of colors of the sunset, its golden and crimson tints; the colors of the sky at sunrise are solemn and tender. This great artist nature - water. Besides, have all the secrets of water been discovered by scientists? Only time can answer this question. Why are we interested in water?
We want to know if water can flow upward?
Hypothesis: water can flow upward.
Purpose of the study: investigate whether water can flow upward.
Tasks:
1. Study information about the properties of water using popular scientific literature;
2. Conduct physical experiments on studying the properties of water;
3. Find out when and under what conditions water rises;
4. Formulate conclusions.
In preparing the work, I studied various literature, the materials of Internet sites were studied, the knowledge gained in the lessons of the surrounding world and at the “Kaleidoscope of Sciences” circle was applied, a number of experiments were carried out.
THEORETICAL PART
Effect of gravity
If you let go of the book, it will inevitably fall to the floor. The “blame” for this is the force of gravity, which attracts all objects without exception to the center of the Earth. And when you pick up a fallen book, you will notice that it appearance hasn't changed at all. It is solid, and solid objects retain their original shape. Unless, of course, you apply any special force to them.
Now imagine that it was not a book that fell, but a glass of water. The water will splash out and spread out in disarray. In fact, liquid has no form of its own. It only occupies the volume, the shape into which it is poured. The same gravity forces it to strive for the lowest point. In a word, where there is water, there is the lowest place. Why do rivers flow into the sea? The water level in the seas is simply lower. Any river seems to be inclined towards the sea into which it flows. A clear proof that water is attracted to the Earth and tends to occupy the lowest level are waterfalls.
Communicating vessels
Of course, in its normal state, water will not be able to rise up the slope, however, the engineers managed to make it cross mountain passes. To do this, it turned out to be enough... to place water in the pipes. Exactly! Water running down a slope in a pipe puts pressure on the masses of water in the pipe going uphill. And they, these thousands of tons of water, flow upward! True, you can’t jump higher than your head: the water will not rise above its original level - the height of the first mountain from which it flows. But a person will always find the opportunity to make the point from which the water flows the highest, and then no passes are afraid of him!
WHAT DID THE ANCIENTS NOT KNOW?
Residents of modern Rome still use the remnants of the water supply system, built by the ancients: Roman slaves built the waterworks in a solid manner.
The same cannot be said about the knowledge of the Roman engineers who supervised these works; they were clearly not familiar enough with the basics of physics. Take a look at the accompanying drawing, reproduced from a painting at the German Museum in Munich. You see that the Roman water supply system was not laid in the ground, but above it, on high stone pillars. Why was this done? Wouldn't it be easier to lay pipes in the ground, as is done now? Of course, it’s simpler, but the Roman engineers of that time had a very vague understanding of the laws of communicating vessels. They were afraid that in reservoirs connected by a very long pipe, the water would not be established at the same level. If pipes are laid in the ground, following the slopes of the soil, then in some areas the water should flow upward - and so the Romans were afraid that the water would not flow upward. Therefore, they usually gave the water pipes a uniform downward slope along their entire path (and this often required either water to be bypassed or high arched supports to be erected). One of the Roman pipes, Aqua Marcia, is 100 km long, while the direct distance between its ends is half that. Fifty kilometers of masonry had to be laid due to ignorance of the elementary law of physics!
WHAT DID WE NOT KNOW?
While exploring the water problem, we encountered a problem. In front of us were two coffee pots of the same width: one high, the other low. Which one is more spacious? Which of these coffee pots can hold more liquid?
Without thinking, we decided that a tall coffee pot was more spacious than a low one. However, when he began to pour liquid into a tall coffee pot, they only poured it up to the level of the opening of its spout - then the water began to pour out. And since the spout holes of both coffee pots are at the same height, the low coffee pot turned out to be just as capacious as the tall one with a short spout.
This is understandable: in the coffee pot and in the spout tube, as in any communicating vessels, the liquid should be at the same level, despite the fact that the liquid in the spout weighs much less than in the rest of the coffee pot. If the spout is not high enough, you will never fill the coffee pot to the top: the water will spill out. Usually the spout is placed even higher than the edges of the coffee pot so that the vessel can be tilted slightly without spilling the contents.
Capillary phenomena
Under certain circumstances, water can rise spontaneously. If you place a thin enough tube (such as a straw) into a container of water, the water level in the tube rises above the water level in the container. The difference between the water levels in the vessel and in the tube will be greater, the smaller the inner diameter of the tube. The ability of water to rise in a tube with a fairly narrow channel is one example of the so-called capillary phenomena, thanks to which plants are able to deliver water from the soil to the branches and leaves. These same phenomena help blood circulate in the human body, especially in capillaries - the smallest blood and lymphatic vessels. Besides, this happens all the time and everywhere. The water itself rises up in the soil, wetting the entire thickness of the earth from the groundwater level. The water itself rises up through the capillary vessels of the tree and helps the plant deliver dissolved nutrients to great heights - from the roots deeply hidden in the ground to the leaves and fruits. The water itself moves upward in the pores of the blotting paper when we have to dry a blot, or in the fabric of a towel when we wipe our face.
Atmosphere pressure
In the old days - in the 17th and 18th centuries - nobles amused themselves with the following instructive toy: they made a jug, in the upper part of which there were large patterned cutouts. Such a jug filled with wine was offered to an ordinary guest, at whom one could laugh with impunity. How to drink from it? You can’t tilt it: the wine will pour out of many holes, but not a drop will reach your mouth. It will happen like in a fairy tale:
Honey, drank beer,
Yes, he just wet his mustache.
-How to drink the contents?
You need to plug hole B, take the spout into your mouth and draw in the liquid without tilting the vessel. The wine will rise through hole E along the channel inside the handle, then along its continuation C inside the upper edge of the jug and reach the spout.
PRACTICAL PART
To find out how water can flow upward, we conducted a series of experiments.
We entered our observations into the table:
Experiment 1 – with a fountain
For observation, an experimental prototype of a fountain is used (two communicating vessels connected by a rubber tube). Water is poured into one of the vessels (reservoir). Another vessel has a hole from which a fountain “gushes out.” The water tank goes down and goes up. Water in communicating vessels is set at the same level. If you lift the tank, the water itself rises up (from the fountain).
Experiment 2 – with a flower
Several flowers on a stem are selected for the experiment. Potassium manganese dissolves in water. The water is tinted so that the liquid can be observed as it rises along the stem. Flowers are dropped into the colored water. After some time, it becomes noticeable that the tinted water itself rises up the stem. Atmospheric pressure helps her with this. In this case, capillary phenomena are observed. After a long time, the colored water even penetrates into the flowers.
Experiment 3 – with a test tube
For the experiment we use: a chemical test tube, a vessel with hot water, a vessel with cold colored water.
The test tube is lowered into hot water so that the open end is at the top. The air in the test tube warms up for some time. Then the open end of the test tube is closed with plasticine or thumb. The test tube is very quickly turned over and lowered into a vessel with cold water. Cold water begins to rise on its own. Atmospheric pressure helps water do this.
IN hot water The air in the test tube warms up, expands, and partially leaves the test tube. IN cold water the air is compressed. Atmospheric pressure pushes water into the test tube.
Experiment 4 – with a syringe
For the experiment, the following is used: a demonstration or medical syringe and a vessel with colored water.
At the beginning of the experiment, the syringe plunger moves all the way to the syringe opening. After this, the hole of the syringe is lowered into the colored water. The piston is pulled up. The water itself begins to rise up behind the piston.
In this water is helped by atmospheric pressure, which pushes the water into a rarefied space.
Experiment 5 – with communicating vessels
To conduct the experiment, the following are used: an electric stove, a heat receiver, a pressure gauge, a rubber tube, and a tinted liquid.
Tinted water is poured into the communicating vessels of the pressure gauge. The water is set at the same level in both vessels. One of the communicating vessels is connected to the heat sink with a rubber tube. The heated electric stove is located opposite the heat sink. The water in one of the tubes begins to rise on its own.
Heat rays reach the heat sink from the heated tile. The air in the heat sink heats up, expands, and presses on the air above the liquid in the vessel that is connected by a rubber tube to the heat sink. In this tube the water begins to fall, and in the other tube the water begins to rise.
The water tower of the collective farm “Zavety Ilyich” in the Spassky district of the Gorky region is unremarkable in appearance. It has been supplying the villagers with spring water for many years. However, when you get closer, you will not hear the usual noise of the water pump - it is not there! And although the source is located significantly below the level of the upper tank, the water constantly, with only short breaks, rises upward! Isn't it a miracle? No, just a Gorky craftsman, assembly mechanic L. Cherepnov, managed to invent and test in practice an original hydraulic installation in which... the energy of the source itself is used to lift water. We invite our readers to get acquainted with the principle of its operation and design.
It is a simple matter to install a water supply system in rural areas: an electric pump supplies water to a pressure tank, from where it is supplied to consumers. But electricity to raise water is often generated by local hydroelectric power stations by converting the pressure of a moving stream. So, in this case, is it not possible to do without the help of electricity at all, forcing only the source of water to work - a stream, a spring? This can be done using a simple hydraulic installation that operates on the principle of a kind of “swing”: draining a certain amount of water ensures that part of it rises to a certain height above the source.
The structure of a motorless automatic water lift is shown in Figure 1. Its main parts are: a water tank, a source well, pressure and air sealed tanks with valve mechanisms and connecting pipes.
Water from the spring fills the well. As soon as its level reaches the inlet of the connecting pipe 9, it begins to flow into the pressure tank. When it is filled, the level in the well will rise to the edge of pipe 8 and water will begin to flow into the air tank. The pressure of the air compressed there is transmitted through pipe 2 to the pressure tank, and since the height H] is greater than H3 by the amount of pressure loss and resistance in the pipes, water from there will rise into the water tank. The reverse flow of water from the pressure tank into the well will be prevented by the closed check valve A.
1 - air tank, 2 - air pipe, 3 - pressure tank, 4 - well, 5 - spring, 6 - water tank, 7 - discharge pipe, 8 - pressure pipe, 9 - connecting pipe; A, B - valves of the pressure tank.
The supply of water to the water tank will continue until the air tank is filled with water. At the same time, its valve mechanism will operate and the water will flow into the drain hole. Then the work cycle is repeated.
The valve mechanism of the air tank (Fig. 2) works as follows. The water entering through pipe 3, displacing air into the pressure tank, fills the air tank. Having risen in it to the upper level of the cylinder, the water will raise the float 10, which will close the valve 13, blocking access to the float glass 2. It can only get into it through the top cut off the glass - when all the air is displaced into the pressure tank. When the glass is filled, the float with its levers will open the air and drain valves, communicating the pressure tank with the atmosphere, and the air with the drain pipe 14. The valves will remain open until the tank is empty. And only when the water flows out of the cylinder 11 through a small hole 12, the float 10 will open the drain valve 13 of the glass with its lever. Float 2 will drop and close valves 8 and 15 - the tank is ready for use again.
1 - glass, 2 - float, 3 - pressure pipe, 4 - air pipe, 5, 6, 7 - float levers, 8 - air valve, 9 - lever, 10 - float, 11 - cylinder, 12 - bypass hole, 13 - valve, 14 - drain pipe, 15 - drain valve.
The performance of such a water lift depends on the flow rate of the source, the height of the water rise, and the diameter of the pipes. The existing installation with a water drop H1 = 8.2 m and a pressure H2 = 7 m has a capacity of 21,312 liters of water per day. One cycle of charging the tanks takes 15 minutes and supplies 222 liters to the water tower, draining 507 liters from the air tower.
The installation is simple in design and can be made from readily available materials in small machine shops. Reliability, trouble-free operation and autonomy allow such a water lift to be operated far from power lines and used to create artificial reservoirs, irrigation systems, and other household needs. Thanks to the automatic mode, the system can operate for a long time without human supervision.
The diagram shows only one version of such an installation, operating on the principle of a hydraulic compressor. To obtain greater pressure, the system can be made two-stage: with a sequential rise of water in two pressure tanks. The absence of a hydraulic connection between the air and pressure tank allows the installation to operate on two sources of water, when, for example, a clean spring has a low productivity, and a fast-moving mountain stream flowing nearby is unsuitable for drinking. Then the key water can only flow into the pressure tank, and from the stream into the air tank, creating the necessary pressure in the system.
If the readers of the magazine are interested in my message, I will be happy to share my experience and new ideas with them.
L. CHEREPKOV, Gorky
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