At 12:08 am 26-02-05 -0500, Keith wrote: > Thanks Frank, > > With God as his co-pilot, he can not fail. > I seem to remember another Jesuit saying, >"It is better to ask forgiveness than permission" > but I could be paraphrasing. > > More from Arie De Geus; this one seems to have been > granted. You'll forgive the artificial Portugese-English > x-lation. Any idea what this could be? >
Well, I'm quite happy to speculate. ;-) I would guess that AMDG has realised magnetic flux lines are not all the same. They are not the Euclidean lines as commonly depicted but are tiny jet streams which have a certain finite diameter. Presumably the diameter of the permanent magnets and the electro magnets are different. Lets say that the electro magnets have flux tube diameters in the pico range and permanent magnets have flux tube diameters in the zepto range. By combining the two in the way he does it would appear that one can develop considerable strain energy in the magnetic field. After all, a normal magnetic field is simply the difference between the fields of electrons pointing in one direction and electrons pointing in the opposite direction so the possibility of complex fields has always been there. What is new is the idea of scale. This seems to suggest, for example, that the magnetic fields produced by coils having different diameters of wire are in fact different in fineness, albeit equal in magnitude. In the light of the discovery of such phenomena as electron clustering this is not really so surprising. It is simply a question of extropy, or as AMDG might put it, Holy Orders. <G> Cheers Frank Grimer
