As I remember, the modeling of a photon (not known to Maxwell per that name) is an oscillating local electric and orthogonal magnetic field that propagates in a vacuum at the speed of light in a direction perpendicular to the plane established by the electric and magnetic fields. Maxwell assigned magnetic and electric properties to the vacuum to account for the speed of light. The changing electric field generated the magnetic field in the space occupied by the disturbance and the changing magnetic field generated the coupled electric field of the disturbance—light. The amplitude of the respective oscillating fields defined the energy of the light at any given point in space. There was no concept of a photon as a particle to my knowledge.
My thought was that a strong magnetic field may disrupt the oscillating nature of the light—disturbance—as it passes through the magnetic field, changing its frequency and or intensity and direction of propagation. I would assume that the magnetic field intensities would add at any instant of time and space. Bob Cook From: Bob Higgins Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 10:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: LENR reactors need magnetic confinement I think the statement, "What happens to a photon in a strong magnetic field is solved by classical (Maxwell,s) theory I believe." is probably only correct only in the part that you believe it. No one really knows what a photon is (try to find some good scholarly articles on what a photon IS), so they declared it a fundamental particle. Maxwell's theory is a good physical model with wide applicability, but I doubt that the real behavior of a photon can be modeled with a linear solution like Maxwell's theory. Some have tried to describe the photon as a soliton, but solitons are a solution of nonlinear differential equations and Maxwell is linear. On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: What happens to a photon in a strong magnetic field is solved by classical (Maxwell,s) theory I believe. Axil’s ENP’s may be nothing more that strong magnetic lines of force. Such lines of force may be enhanced by ferromagnetic material and/or directed in certain directions in Rossi’s reactor. At sufficient magnitude they may also direct EM radiation and or change its frequency. We do not know what happens in nano materials. Rossi has indicated normal physics is all that is required to understand his reactor. He seems to disbelieve the exotic ideas Axil brings to the table. It would be interesting to ask him whether he the concept of virtual particles and the 5th dimension Fran and other Vorts have hypothesized form time to time. Bob Cook
