In reply to Remi Cornwall's message of Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:00:55 +0100: Hi, [snip] >May be, but not with some frigging wheel with magnets on it made by a bunch >of self-publicity junkies a la Steorn or SMOT. > >Without expending too much time on non-starters, just devise some >heuristics. How can that be?
You already said yourself that rotation of the bodies involved is what gets the lines tangled. So if the Earth's field lines can be concentrated locally, then twisted till they "snap" we might get see something interesting. As everyone knows, magnetic conductors tend to concentrate the field lines in their vicinity. So what happens when a North South oriented magnetic conductor is rotated? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
