sci.physics.electromag

Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> After my last post at 1:28 am in #68, a thought came to my mind. Can I
> compensate for a nanosecond current
> in a Wimshurst generator by making the magnet so very tiny and very
> weak? Instead of having a Wimshurst with
> a near continuous flow of electric current to support a substantial
> magnet, what if I reduced the size of the magnet
> to that of a mere iron filing?
>
> I have plenty of iron filings in my work and toolshop so I retrieved
> some of them and magnetized them for
> a 1/2 hour and then placed them on the electrode of the Wimshurst.
>
> So when the sparks of the current crossed the electrode, if the iron
> filings moved across the electrode to the
> center of the electrode where the current would jump the gap, then I
> would call this a Meissner Effect.
>
> So this maybe a historic moment in the history of science in that I
> may have witnessed the first ever of
> a Meissner Effect produced by a Wimshurst generator.
>
> The iron filings did move toward the center of the electrode.
>
> Now some may complain that the methodology does not rule out the idea
> that the current moved the iron
> shavings and not the diamagnetism. But I do not think this is the case
> of the current moving the shavings
> for I offset them from the center of the electrode far enough.
>
> So invite any other scientist to duplicate my results.
>

That should read "So I invite others to repeat or duplicate this
experiment."

I repeated the above tonight, for I am bothered by likelihood of
vibrations
that may have moved the iron filings or iron shavings.

And let me be more clear about the arrangement. That like Faraday's
lines
of force on iron filings on a sheet of paper with a magnet underneath.
That I have a sheet of paper situated above the electrodes with the
iron
filing placed at a certain position and then repeat the experiment
with
the paper below the electrodes.

I noticed the iron filing and iron filings magnetized and moved in
position
as the Wimshurst current jumped the gap.

I also noticed that with a specific arrangement of magnets near the
electrodes
that I can alter the shape of the spark discharge. Now whether the
shape of the
spark discharge is equal or the same as the shape of the current flow
is
unknown to me but I would hazard to guess they are equal in geometry.

So I am reporting that I did notice a change in the iron filing
position but whether
that is a Meissner Effect or whether it was a vibration affect while
in the coarse of
operating the generator or in the course of the flow of current across
the gap
is unknown at this time.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
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