PatrickPowers wrote:If there is a magnetic field in the vicinity this induces a current in the vortex. This current increases the magnetic field. This induces more current. So the field builds on itself. The polarity of the field is the same as the initial field, whatever that happened to be.
PatrickPowers wrote:In the Earth it is mostly from the "heat of fusion" of magma freezing into a solid, and some from nuclear fission.
Teragon wrote:
That's not true. Induced magnetic fields always counteract the currents that induce it.
Teragon wrote:It's radioactive decay and primoridal heat.
Teragon wrote:Essentially the drawback of compasses in 4D is that they can't show you unique directions, but circles with constant angles to the field planes. Only the direction normal to the field planes is uniquely defined (supposing you know where above and below is).
PatrickPowers wrote:I'm no expert, but that's the basic idea. In the 21st century a geodynamo containing liquid sodium has been constructed in a laboratory. If you can explain to me better what is going on I would appreciate it. It's called magnetohydrodynamics.
PatrickPowers wrote:Teragon wrote:It's radioactive decay and primoridal heat.
I'm going with the guy now at Cal Tech whose name I forget. The experts don't agree on this issue, so we may believe as we please.
PatrickPowers wrote:In 4D a properly designed compass can show you the two magnetic planes. That would narrow things down quite a bit.
PatrickPowers wrote:With N odd the compass could show the pole as well.
Teragon wrote:PatrickPowers wrote:With N odd the compass could show the pole as well.
What to you mean by that? The magnetic pole (or what defines the origin of the local magnetic field) is N-2-dimensional.
PatrickPowers wrote:With the definitions I am using, in 4D it is possible to have two magnetic planes so that there are no magnetic poles. In 5D there may be two planes and a pole. In 6D three planes, and so on.
Teragon wrote:PatrickPowers wrote:With the definitions I am using, in 4D it is possible to have two magnetic planes so that there are no magnetic poles. In 5D there may be two planes and a pole. In 6D three planes, and so on.
What you call the pole direction is not distinguishable in any way from the plane or any linear combination of both, that's why I prefer the term 3-pole/polevolume. I guess you mean "two planes" in 6D.
mr_e_man wrote:Wendy, do you have the power to actually delete those "Deleted" posts?
We ordinary users can only delete the most recent post, I think.
mr_e_man wrote:Wendy, do you have the power to actually delete those "Deleted" posts?
We ordinary users can only delete the most recent post, I think.
[answer] I can do anything to your posts that you can do. Since the set of `your` is somewhat larger for me, you get the idea. But I normally use it to do things to delete evident spam or the like, not because i disagree with someone's legit post.[/answer] Wendy
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