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Re: simple magnets question



Hi all-
Well, it's a matter of taste. Leigh sez:
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The problem here arises from your model. I don't know anything about
tiny close packed dipole magnets; the only sources of which I am aware
are electric charges, and I believe that the question must be answered
using a model that involves only electric charges.
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I like the Mechanical Universe approach. The 3 classical force laws
are (in terms of vector components):

F= K*q_1*q_2*x/R^3 where:

K q are
G m for gravitation
K_e electric charge for electricity
K_m magnetic charge for magnetism.

Magnetic charges are somehow "screened" (like quarks and gluons) so all we ever
observe in nature are magnetic dipoles. Maxwell's laws "unify" electricity and
magnetism, and the result of the unification is E-M waves.

All the elementary magnetic dipoles, by the way, are spinning.
Regards,
Jack


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to wit, how the milk gets into the cow. Both of us
had marveled over that mystery a long time. We had
followed the cows around for years - that is, in the
daytime - but had never caught them drinking fluid of
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