A question

[William Gaatjes]

Does an electrical insulator exists that allows to be magnetised by an external magnetic field ?

 

[bobsmith1492]

Ferrites are magnetic but not conductive...

 

[firewolfsm]

Yeah, as magnetic fields are not limited by the conductivity of a material at all (think photons, not electrons,) as long as the electron structure can be magnetized, it will happen.

 

[Born2bwire]

:awe:

 

[William Gaatjes]

Wel, i guess it sounds like a simple question, and it is in a way.

Ferrites, i know they where the first to pop into my mind.

I am doing some background reading about magnetism, various forms of magnetism like diamagnetic, ferromagnetic, etcetera.
Back at school i had read about the weiss domains.
I have to do a little more background reading on


I do find that interesting, firewolfsm what you mentioned.

That magnetic fields are a form of photons. It does make sense.
I saw this movie of plasma flowing on the magnetic fieldlines flowing. I wonder if that is the case, a form of entanglement that would look like a string of photons connected.

 

[bobsmith1492]

You can't think of field lines as flowing, though. Nothing "moves" in the field lines; in fact nothing moves, no energy, unless the field lines are interrupted by movement.