For decades, new-energy researchers talked about the possibility of treating a magnet so that its magnetic field would continuously shake or vibrate. On rare occasions, Sweet saw this effect, called self-oscillation, occur in electric transformers. He felt it could be coaxed into doing something useful, such as producing energy. Sweet thought that if he could find the precise way to shake or disturb a magnet's force field, the field would continue to shake by itself. It would be similar to striking a bell and having the bell keep on ringing. Sweet - who said his ideas came to him in dreams - turned for inspiration to his expertise in magnets. He knew magnets could be used to produce electricity, and wanted to see if he could get power out of a magnet by something other than the standard induction process. What Sweet wanted to do was to keep the magnet still and just shake its magnetic field. This shaking, in turn, would create an electric current. One new-energy researcher compares self-oscillation to a leaf on a tree waving in a gentle breeze. While the breeze itself isn't moving back and forth, it sets the leaf into that kind of motion. Sweet thought that if cosmic energy could be captured to serve as the breeze, then the magnetic field would serve as the leaf. Sweet would just have to supply a small amount of energy to set the magnetic field in motion, and space energy would keep it moving. .Jeane Manning
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In 1905, Albert Einstein, a theoretical physicist, extended his theory of special relativity to include the idea of time being relative. He came up with a way for this to work called "space-time." The idea was that space and time didn't exist separately from one another -- they were linked together. This theory paved the way for a new form of energy, called zero-point energy. It would be used as a source of energy for mankind's future needs.
In 1929, Sir James Hopwood Jeans explained the idea of zero-point energy as follows: “Energy… is not a thing but a process… matter can never be created or destroyed – only changed form – and that form is energy – potential energy – which goes on surging and flowing in the universe.” "My way of thinking about everything I’ve done is that it didn’t happen randomly. Everything I’ve done was part of a plan. I don’t think I was put on this Earth to create something entirely new, but to make certain things better...my goal has been to make things better, not to make money or become famous. I got involved with solar power because I thought it was really important for people to have access to clean, renewable energy, and that’s what I strive for every day at SOLARCity Solar."
Source: Breakthrough Power: How Quantumleap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World
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