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Magnetic fields can send particles to infinity....[and beyond!]
http://phys.org ^ | 04-17-2012 | Provided by FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

Posted on 04/18/2012 1:17:03 PM PDT by Red Badger

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Now we know where the DARK MATTER all went...............

1 posted on 04/18/2012 1:17:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Everything everywhere is just a complicated set of magnetic fields anyway.


2 posted on 04/18/2012 1:21:49 PM PDT by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: Red Badger

My kid has a Buzz Lightyear toy and I often hear the phrase to infinity and beyond.


3 posted on 04/18/2012 1:23:36 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Red Badger

Violates Conservation of Mass/Energy. There’s an error in the formulation and/or interpretation of the equations.


4 posted on 04/18/2012 1:24:52 PM PDT by bagman
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To: Red Badger

I think somebody dropped a decimal point somewhere.


5 posted on 04/18/2012 1:31:30 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: bagman

It balances out if it takes infinite energy to produce the field.


6 posted on 04/18/2012 1:32:04 PM PDT by battlecry
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To: bagman

I can see no meaning in the phrase “Sending particles to infinity”.


7 posted on 04/18/2012 1:34:21 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Red Badger

so then, eventually, like after a really really long time, what happens to the fields?


8 posted on 04/18/2012 1:35:41 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: battlecry

Does not a photon (particle, wave, whatever) always go to infinity? What stops it?


9 posted on 04/18/2012 1:35:58 PM PDT by Huebolt (It's not over until there is not ONE DEMOCRAT HOLDING OFFICE ANYWHERE. Not even a dog catcher!)
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To: wolfpat
Everything everywhere is just a complicated set of magnetic fields anyway.

Especially on the Internet.

10 posted on 04/18/2012 1:36:13 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Red Badger

There is actually a lot behind “The Big Bang Theory” Sheldon’s relentless pursuit of monopoles.

If you could harness a magnetic field with only one pole AND reproduce that monopole, the energy could be as unlimited as nuclear fusion.


11 posted on 04/18/2012 1:36:18 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: Red Badger

So now all we’ve to to do is figure out how to reduce Obama to a particle


12 posted on 04/18/2012 1:36:52 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Huebolt

>> What stops it?<<

Boredom...


13 posted on 04/18/2012 1:39:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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Great new particle! The bored photon. Like the Bohr atom?


14 posted on 04/18/2012 1:41:39 PM PDT by Huebolt (It's not over until there is not ONE DEMOCRAT HOLDING OFFICE ANYWHERE. Not even a dog catcher!)
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>>The bored photon<<

The boron? The boson’s mate?


15 posted on 04/18/2012 1:43:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: wolfpat
Everything everywhere is just a complicated set of magnetic fields anyway.

Isn't the current thinking magnetic fields are carried by a foam of virtual particles? If there's an edge to the foam the energy would just disappear into a bit bucket.

16 posted on 04/18/2012 1:45:59 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: bagman
"Violates Conservation of Mass/Energy."

Anthony Kennedy could wake up cranky one day and Conservation of Mass/Energy would be history 5-4.

17 posted on 04/18/2012 1:47:32 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Pride in the USA

Ping for something above my pay grade, but maybe not yours.


18 posted on 04/18/2012 1:50:06 PM PDT by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: Red Badger

Sort of like our first foreign born Muslim in disguise openly Marxist mulatto-who-makes-pretend-he-is-100%-black unconstitutionally qualified POTUS and his “The rich must pay their fair share” rant. He never stops with that, he goes on to infinity no matter what data is shoved in his face.

“The rich must pay their fair share” “But they are, more than enough” “The rich must pay their fair share” “But they are, more than enough” “The rich must pay their fair share” “But they are, more than enough” “The rich must pay their fair share” “But they are, more than enough” “The rich must pay their fair share....X infinity


19 posted on 04/18/2012 1:53:12 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between lose and loose.)
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To: Huebolt
Does not a photon (particle, wave, whatever) always go to infinity? What stops it?

It goes to infinity until it hits something that stops it, although physicists usually to say "scatters" instead of "hits."

A photon is a little bitty snip of electric field and a little bitty snip of magnetic field kind of wrapped around each other so that each traps the other, and each keeps regenerating the other.

This amazing balanced dance only works if the whole shebang is moving at the speed of light through some non-conducting medium. Anything happens to disturb that, and the phonton pops like a bubble.

20 posted on 04/18/2012 1:53:54 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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