What could be more exciting than knowing how to move and control great quantities of heat? Ok, so "exciting" isn't exactly the adjective you would have chosen. But if you want to build an efficient solar collector, provide a one-way-door for heat, or cool something that gets too hot, one of the best tools for doing that is a heat pipe.

   What's more, there exist certain critical questions in science that we can study by examining the way heat moves within a heat pipe. Certainly it is exciting to understand how the swirling balls of energy we call atoms manage to soak up huge quantities of heat through evaporation, and release it someplace else through condensation. If it's all just made of energy, as Einstein said, then how does it know how to do that? What makes it always get it right? And how come it never forgets how to do it?

   Conventional science only tells us what it does. It does not tell us how it does it, nor does it answer these critical questions.

   An elementary Heat Pipe is a completely closed pipe with nothing in it but water and water vapor (no air.) The pipe can be tilted or bent slightly so that the water will run down hill to the energy source… like direct sunlight in a solar collector. The upper end is placed in the "heat sink", such as an insulated water storage tank.

   Solar heat soaks through the walls of the pipe, and evaporates the water. Each gram (cc) of water soaks up 539 times as much heat when evaporating than when it's merely warmed 1 degree C. It's called the "latent heat of evaporation." What's more, when it condenses at the other end of the heat pipe, it gives up every drop of that heat to the water in the storage tank. By tilting the pipe, the condensate quickly runs back down to where it started. So when the sun goes down, very little heat will escape the storage tank, because there isn't any water at that end in the heat pipe to transport it… even though the main part of the solar collector cools off. It's a one-way-door for heat.

   So how does the molecule of water, made of swirling balls of energy, know how to do that? Why is its operation so consistent?

   Energy circulates in resonance within each atom and its bonding shells, which hold the hydrogen and oxygen tightly together. This energy flows around in concise repeating patterns held together by the force. When energy is added, the resonant pattern changes. Like an out-of-balance car tire, the additional energy causes the molecule to bounce around, which we recognize as heat. But as the molecule heats up, it reaches a state where the addition of even one more unit of energy causes the field system to reorganize itself into a new pattern capable of accumulating 539 times as much heat before it reorganizes again, loosing its tight bond between adjacent molecules, causing them to separate… that is, they evaporate.

   At the other end of the pipe, the opposite occurs, 539 times as much energy is given up through the walls of the pipe and into the cool water you are trying to heat up. But why 539? And why is it always 539?

   Subatomic operations are not haphazard or random. They contain precise "pseudorandom" sequences of moving force fields that pre-determine how each atom will interact with other atoms, and under what conditions. This consistency of the laws of physics is part of the evidence supporting the Resonant Field Theory. For without repeating, consistent, deterministic energy-flow, there would be no mechanism to make things work. That's why it always gets it right, and it never forgets how to do it.

   Isn't it exciting to understand what others have yet to discover?

   Would you like to learn more? Read the exciting E-book: "Resonant Fields, the Fundamental Mechanism of Physics, Made Easy To Understand," available from the Lesson Index Page

   Now that's exciting, isn't it!