-----Original Message----- From: Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. It implies that when an electrical current is passed through a conductor creating a magnetic field, the mass of the conductor is reduced!
[JB:] Provocative. Surely someone has tried this with a very large coil and a precision scale? Actually you would need to use a remote non-conductive balance beam, or something similar like rope pulleys - since any electrical conductor in the scale itself would be affected by the field, and would alter the reading -- but the simplicity of doing this experiment, and the fact he has not done it - would seem to indicate something? Jones
