how can something like this be overlooked

[bwanaaa]

for 100 years! makes me think it's fake or wrong.

http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2011/04/story.php?id=7980&tr=y&auid=8154157

 

[CycloWizard]

I seem to recall this term appearing in the derivation of momentum conservation equations, but it's never been found to give rise to significant effects experimentally, so most people don't even write it down. I'll wait until someone else verifies the result before getting all excited because things like this usually turn out to be a math error, but it's certainly possible that we missed it because we weren't looking for it.

 

[William Gaatjes]

It has probably nothing to do with it, but it reminds me some how of the Kerr magnetic effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optic_Kerr_effect

Sometimes this happens. I would not be surprised if someone long ago measured it as an side effect but discarded it because it was not the objective of research.

I wonder what happens when polarized light is used in the research of Mr Rand. What effects that would have on the produced magnetic field...


IIRC sunlight has no aligned polarization.

 

[bwanaaa]

Interestingly, Doc Edgerton made the first photographs of a nuclear explosion using a magnetically controlled shutter on polarized light. The basis is that a magnetic field will rotate polarized light. By putting an electromagnet between two polarizers, you can turn the light coming in through the first polarizer by 90 degrees. This causes complete extinction and is very fast. Shutter speeds of a millionth of a second or faster. And since you are dealing with something very bright, you actually get an image. The early phase of a fission bomb looks like spherical swiss cheese.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Interestingly, Doc Edgerton made the first photographs of a nuclear explosion using a magnetically controlled shutter on polarized light. The basis is that a magnetic field will rotate polarized light. By putting an electromagnet between two polarizers, you can turn the light coming in through the first polarizer by 90 degrees. This causes complete extinction and is very fast. Shutter speeds of a millionth of a second or faster. And since you are dealing with something very bright, you actually get an image. The early phase of a fission bomb looks like spherical swiss cheese.

Indeed, that is interesting. :thumbsup:

EDIT:
I always find it confusing to be honest. IIRC Most light seemed to be circular polarized. For some reason i always asked myself if this is also the case in vacuum and the same for other EM waves. I do not think it is that obvious for some reason.

 

[William Gaatjes]

You have gotten me interested to much. 🙂

I have a web site with pictures :

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bomb.html

EDIT:

Forget the website...
These 3 pictures are the only one interesting.

 

[William Gaatjes]

While reading i encountered the name of one of my great hero's.

Michael Faraday and the Faraday effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_effect

In physics, the Faraday effect or Faraday rotation is a Magneto-optical phenomenon, that is, an interaction between light and a magnetic field in a medium. The Faraday effect causes a rotation of the plane of polarization which is linearly proportional to the component of the magnetic field in the direction of propagation.

Discovered by Michael Faraday in 1845, the Faraday effect was the first experimental evidence that light and electromagnetism are related. The theoretical basis of electromagnetic radiation (which includes visible light) was completed by James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860s and 1870s. This effect occurs in most optically transparent dielectric materials (including liquids) under the influence of magnetic fields.

The Faraday effect causes left and right circularly polarized waves to propagate at slightly different speeds, a property known as circular birefringence. Since a linear polarization can be decomposed into two circularly polarized components, the effect of a relative phase shift, induced by the Faraday effect, is to rotate the orientation of a wave's linear polarization.

The Faraday effect has a few applications in measuring instruments. For instance, the Faraday effect has been used to measure optical rotatory power and for remote sensing of magnetic fields. The Faraday effect is used in spintronics research to study the polarization of electron spins in semiconductors. Faraday rotators can be used for amplitude modulation of light, and are the basis of optical isolators and optical circulators; such components are required in optical telecommunications and other laser applications.[1]

 

[William Gaatjes]

I might add this as well :

Cotton–Mouton effect.

Voigt effect.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Had to think about it, it is probably nothing.

Maybe it works like this :
When the c shape movement they mention is perpendicular to the beam of light and the light is circular polarized, then the electron would get pushed around by following "photons" in effect it is like a wave. It would be like aligning all electrons and their separate magnetic fields into a unified magnetic field. But this would only be a temporary pulse like effect. The field would have a pulsed amplitude similar to the light. Thus the circular polarization is important. In general electrons would get pushed around because of incoming light( like a single "photon") then but would be a single electron in a group of electrons all with different magnetic alignment. Thus still zero on average. Here the numbers of photons and the polarization of the light is the key to the resulting magnetic field.

I am probably wrong though...

 

[A5]

Also, it currently requires 10 MW/cm^2, which is about 100 million more times intense than the average intensity of the sun (1360 W/m^2). Finding a material that acts this way at solar intensities will not be a trivial task.

 

[dkozloski]

Cold Fusion?