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Metamaterials       with an eye to the kite
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June 28, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Novel Kite MetaMaterial

Basic aerodynamics identified, based on origami metamaterial model; details will vary greatly:
Origami KiteMatter
Variable-AoA Origami-Polarizations of Triangle-Lattice KiteMatter

Set horizontally, the shown generates lift from any wind direction.
* Rotary displacement when triple-phased.
* Set vertically, it tacks crosswind.
June 12, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Topological Weyl Modes in AWE Lattices

New physics and material science is looking for Killer Apps like AWE. We have located the ideal metamaterial mathematical-physics. All the dots connect, the formalisms map point-by-point to our AWES kitematter analogs. We get to share and define nice particulars known only to us, and ponder mind-boggling implications.

Already we've been doing a kite bee-dance with topological quantum condensed-matter and metamaterial scientists; who listen more encouragement than complaint. The invited piece to PW emboldened us. The finish line to decades of kite energy inquiry is finally in sight. AWES technology is more radical than anyone imagined.

New keywords include Mechanical Metamaterials, Topological Quantum Matter, Maxwell Lattices, Floppy Modes, Zero Modes.  

June 12, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Topological MetaMaterial Sub-Harmonics

A precise analogy is dancing a power kite at the edge of the kite-window (including zenith) to sustain or enhance flight.

"...topological breakdown due to surface-bulk coupling is a long standing scientific and engineering problem."

Stability by fluctuation: topological materials outperform through quantum periodic motion
May 24, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Bell Cell Kite Metamaterial (slide)

Bell'sBell's
From 2019 by Dave Santos

KiteMatter, as a metamaterial domain, intends to power civilization, a property not hoped for of “spider webs, jelly fish and trees”. Our “rag and string” kite physics is as wildly exotic as anything else in the universe. Don’t let superficial familiarity introduce bias. The greatest physicists all saw the extraordinary in the ordinary. At least we have identified metamaterial auxetic and negative-refraction effects for KiteMatter, on the Old Forum, no matter who was bored.

We are the authorities to work this all out, since no one else is. We can even identify metamaterial properties in standard brush-topology kite farms. Now that biomimetics has informed metamaterial science, its a much richer engineering paradigm.

KiteMatter is the metamaterial interpretation of kites and parts either by units or ordered networks. In the loosest case, all kites in the world constitute a metamaterial; more factual than worrying no metamaterial is possible.

The frontier is a grand buffet of metamaterial aeroelasticity, social network metamateriality, formal quasi-crystallography, etc

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A "hill’ made of kites is super-exotic. Be sure to follow the kite forces back upwind via the tethers to their anchors, not just the downwash. That’s highly negative refraction, with phonon particle creation. A Feynman Diagram applies.

Effectively wind and earth are our natural “particle accelerator”, just like cosmic rays serve science, and when we pop up our kites, its as exotic as CERN or maybe more so, because we are discovering a whole new branch of exotic advanced physics and engineering.

So what if there is only a handful of kite network theorists to start with. Enjoy the pristine intellectual paradise before the crowd shows up.

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I am “build(ing) and organiz(ing) (kite) knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe”.

For example, a drogue is auxetic as it widens when pulled by wind. You can test that. Further, a meta-drogue (fractal drogue made of drogues) is an auxetic metamaterial under the cellular criterion.

The PopSci side of AWE is more like the Popular Science treatment of AWE (see old ST cover story). Thank goodness nobody censored it as such. Kite Networks has never been “pop” treatment of kite science, with its observational analysis of negative refractive index and auxetics, and topological theory.

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Energetic pumping elastic lattice waves in soft media validated, analogous to theoretic AWES kitematter, like Wubbo’s SpiderMill topology. Confirmed preloading of the polymer lattice media with tension of zero-point energy, then free-energy packets can be shot ballistically over long distances. The metamaterial revolution continues-

Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy

This paper in Nature presents embodied logic such as many kite-rigging methods and theoretic kite networks offer

Bifurcation-based embodied logic and autonomous actuation
[Yijie Jiang] [Lucia M. Korpas] [Jordan R. Raney]
Nature Communications (2019)

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In general, any fiber that can be spun or braided into kite line can be woven or laminated into kite cloth.

The core definition of Metamaterial is not single-material construction in itself, but structured material with properties like auxetic and negative refractive indices, even with composited variety of material.