On Saturday, Mar 8, 2003, at 15:08 US/Eastern, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
If there is no nucleus, what makes them go in a circle?
That is a different question. How is a vortex formed in the first place?
I wanted to know if the system can be stable. You showed that two
parallel beams of electrons, flowing in the same direction, will repel
rather than attract (unless v --> c). That is a good start. But some
people claim that a vortex can be stable. Thanks for helping me to
deal with this difficult topic.
Ludwik Kowalski
> Does it make any sense to think that a very large number of electrons
> (billions) can stay together (despite the mutual repulsion) when they
> circulate rapidly forming a small "toroidal vortex?" The nonuniform
> magnetic field, created by them, is said to produce confining forces.
> It would be like a large "classical" atom without a nucleus (a cluster
> of charges, if you prefer).