On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:38 PM, blaze spinnaker <[email protected]>wrote:
Well, we don't know how long it was actually at 1.6T > > Maybe that was a spike > This is a good point. It might have been a sharp transient that is seen intermittently. I personally don't know much about the claim. I see it is mentioned in Kim's and Hadjichristos's slides. I'm inclined to think it might not be the reason for the thick shielding around the device, which is something that was mentioned a few days ago, if my memory serves me, as a protection for electronics. Far more likely, it seems to me, the shielding is to protect humans from radiation. If this is true, there are clear reasons to keep this piece of information on the down-low. That is not to say there is no magnetic field. Perhaps there is, and perhaps there is a strong one. All of this just underscores how little we actually know apart from what has been provided to us by parties with a horse in the game. Eric
