On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
What's to make this kind of precession not be a spherical one, e.g., such > that the movement of the ellipsoid over time rather than being planar > instead cancels out any magnetic moment? > To attempt an answer to my own question, the precession might act like a weathervane, where the wind (the magnetic field) begins to blow through it -- the weathervane swivels and aligns itself with the oncoming wind. Similarly, perhaps the precession would align with the magnetic field. Eric
