Richard wrote:
>> From OrionWorks:
>>
>> Ok, now, all you mad scientists lurking out in vortex land, what happens
>> to the doughnut shaped ring? Will it remain stationary, or will it
>> possibly begin to spin.
> Howdy Steven,
>
> Remains stationary. Visualize two fields. Each field is vortex shaped
> like a spinning top. The base of the two tops connected at their base.
> Use a mind picture of the actual fields within a donut shaped magnet
> to understand the fields are rotating in opposite directions similar
> to earth's magnetis fields. That's what keeps a single donut shaped
> magnet from flying off into the sunset and our feet of the ground
> err.. well.. that is.. unless one has an extremely vivid imagination
> brought about by inhaling certain types of hemp pollen.
>
> Richard
Howdy back, Richard.
The Vortex mailing list rudely striped away the subject field of my original
post, which was supposed to have stated: "A Spinning Doughnut for Your
Thoughts?", However, a "Dunkin Donut" works just fine by me as well! ;-)
I really ought to build a 3D rapid prototype model of what it is that I'm
trying to visualize here using RHINO 3D, and then post a link to it -- HAH! IF
I could only find the time to do this. I'm not sure my description was fully
understood. You state: "Visual two fields." Two fields? I only visual a single
field where the magnetic flux lines are "traveling" between the two cylindrical
magnets in parallel lines. Here's a crude graphic representation of what it is
that I'm trying to build. Make sure you look at this diagram in plain text mode:
|| < Central turning axis of donut.
||
* || *
* N * || * N *
* * || * *
* * || * * <- Cylinder Permanent Magnet
* * || * *with hole through center
* S * || * S *
* || *
||
| | /\ | |
|- |== ==| -| <= Negatively charged "donut ring"
| | \/ | |
||
* || *
* N * || * N *
* * || * * <- Cylinder Permanent Magnet
* * || * *with hole through center
* * || * *
* S * || * S *
* || *
||
|| < Central turning axis of donut.
Please note that this DIAGRAM is a CROSS SECTION. While it might look like
there are four independent "bar" magnets. In truth there are only two where we
have -sliced- through the upper and lower cylinder magnets. Likewise we have
sliced through the negatively charged "dunkin donut!"
Granted this diagram depicts a static magnetic field, but there is only one
magnetic field where the flux lines are essentially running parallel between
the two cylinder permanent magnets.
The skeptical side of me suspects that since the flux lines are essentially
static, as well as the charged donut the contraption will NOT begin to spin
even though it is immersed within a strong magnetic field which ought to make
the ALL the additionally charged "free" electrons want to spiral in a
particular direction.
Regards,
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.Zazzle.com/orionworks
FYI: Again, here is the text of my original post:
Are there any mad scientists within the Vortex group that might be willing to
stick their neck out and make a reasonably accurate prediction what would
happen if the following device was built. BTW, I don't perceive it as being
impossible to build this device either:
Create a doughnut shape ring consisting of extremely thin lattices of flat
disk-like material (much thinner than paper) that circumnavigate the entire
360-degree "ring" circumference. These pancake-like disks would consist of two
different compositions of materials, placed alternately between each other.
The composition of the first kind of material, what I'll call the "ionic
composition" possesses the ability to collect and store an extremely large
collection of electrons within its internal matrix. The second material, which
I'll call the "insulator composition", works as an extremely effective
insulator, effectively barring any collection of free electrons that might
accumulate within the "ionic composition" disks from jumping between each other.
Just to be clear here, I'm speaking of a doughnut shaped ring consisting of a
stacked lattice of two kinds of extremely thin disk material circumnavigating
the entire 360 degree circumference of the doughnut shaped ring.
Design the doughnut shaped ring so that each of the "ionic" disks are connected
to microscopic electrical leads that radiate inward, like the wire spokes
belonging to a bicycle wheel. All the electrical leads are connected to a
central axis. Visually speaking, we would have a doughnut shaped ring
consisting of a lattice composition of two materials that, in turn, would be
held together (supported) by a central axis. Said differently, visualize a
spinning top (the
