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Ion scattering and Saturn's rings

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:12 pm
by TallDave
Interesting article on the lack of scattering in Saturn's rings.

http://arxivblog.com/?p=1061

Reminded me of the ion upscattering issue and Bussard's annealing claim. Probably nothing directly applicable to Polywell here, but it's interesting to see an anti-entropic force at work in nature.

Re: Ion scattering and Saturn's rings

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:56 pm
by MSimon
TallDave wrote:Interesting article on the lack of scattering in Saturn's rings.

http://arxivblog.com/?p=1061

Reminded me of the ion upscattering issue and Bussard's annealing claim. Probably nothing directly applicable to Polywell here, but it's interesting to see an anti-entropic force at work in nature.
Which would tend to argue that having an oscillator/natural frequency in a system can help maintain order. As a general principle.

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:00 am
by KitemanSA
POPS anyone?

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:10 am
by MSimon