It makes sense. What's special about the time of day of your post anyway? :) (Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:48:57 +1100)
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:48 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Easy Unidirectional Force, get out your calculators... > In reply to Stiffler Scientific's message of Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:26:06 -0600: > Hi, > [snip] >>John, a stupid question if I may? >> >>If I understand what you are saying, you assume the mag field creates a >>spatial imprint which remains for some length of time after the magnets are >>moved? >> >>If this is corrected, then while the magnets are moving, do they still >>retain a field? or is it latent and waiting to catch up? > > > Both. New field is created, and the old tries to catch up. > The field tries to "catch up" at the speed of light. In a sense this is what > is > happening with an antenna. The magnet gets "made and destroyed" rather than > being moved, and the result is EM waves. So you could say that a photon > comprises the retarded field. IOW if you could move the magnet fast enough it > would radiate. (In an antenna the little magnets called electrons get moved > very > fast). > > Note the time of day of this post, and be gentle in your response. ;) > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ > > Competition provides the motivation, > Cooperation provides the means. >
