Does centrifugal force affect magnetic field lines ?

[Nanos]

I was wondering, would spinning and the resulting centrifugal force help stretch magnetic field lines ?


Might that approach work to move the field lines so they do not terminate upon the surfaces of permanent magnets which one might think of using ?

[tonybarry]

Hello Nanos,
Are you thinking of spinning the whole MaGrid? or just the electron field inside the grid?

I think it would have to turn at alarmingly high revs per second to get much influence on an electron, as the electron mass is very small, but its charge renders it very susceptible to magnetic fields.

Regards,
Tony Barry

[drmike]

You get magnetic fields as a relativistic property of electric fields in motion. Design the electric currents to get the field you want.

But thinking about moving magnetic fields leads you to motors. There are lots of ways to build motors, sometimes you move the magnet, sometimes you oscillate the field. I've always thought about oscillating the electric field (like POPS) to aid the system, but maybe oscillating the magnetic field could do some interesting things as well. Like pumping electrons around the system to create a dynamically stable system where a statically stable one is impossible. Yet another fun thing to model!

[tombo]

Yes,
Like a Dynamo like the earth's core.
But, how does it help?
I would expect the equator to bulge pushing against the containment.
It might be useful if there were two weak points in the containment to assist
or if there were a particularly strong ring in the containment to take advantage of.