Recent content by sphear

should i not be asking another question related to my main question because this thread is a little old? it isn't locked yet so i was thinking it would be ok it took me too long to get the convention thing, yeah i used to know that years ago but i forgot why does the aluminum core rotate in...

Ok, well I have been having computer trouble and it's the first day I've slept well in a while so i just realized that i phrased this question all wrong so please let me start over, also maybe i didn't phrase it wrong and the answer is convention I realize that we can choose by convention that...

i meant to ask this before, but i kind of forgot so it's just random then... news to me still i thought there was truth to the magnetic field lines at least as far as magnets were concerned, two lines pointing the same direction= attraction and the opposite when pointing opposite directions...

does that mean it's irrelevant which way it goes or does that mean we just don't know? i mean it IS irrelevant either way I guess, i wouldn't know, the magnetic field should go in one side and out the other in a north/south magnet, isn't it important to know which is which just for the sake of...

my questions are rather simple and stupid and i won't delve into theory like the last times how do we know the magnetic field lines are pointing inward on south and outward on north instead of inward on north and outward on south? or for this rule it's really the same question, how do we...

yeah i certainly agree with you, i just define it differently than you do, but i still think my question might have some possible merit, maybe charged particles from solar wind or cosmic rays react less strongly with the Earth's magnetic field than they should given their speed? cosmic rays move...

yeah i know that... I'm talking about the electromagnetic force with charged particles only, i would actually suggest that mechanical movement is strong nuclear force or something. it's certainly not a distance/squared equation the way gravity and the electromagnetic forces are

huh? I'm just talking about comparing differences in the force of a protons charge compared to a proton that's been accelerated mechanically or electromagnetically like you said there may be a frame at which protons are at rest, but i doubt that protons and electrons, or anything which does not...

it's probably wrong what I'm saying, but it seems like there should be a difference, I'm just trying to figure out if there's some difference, you put it more clearly than i did, it seems odd to me, time dilation, the faster two objects are moving relative to each other, the weaker their forces...

I googled this and didn't find anything. But it's a simple question. If a proton was moving 99.999% the speed of light in the LHC, and the Earth and LHC and everything around it disappeared, would the proton lose speed or energy overtime? assuming no background radiation etc. A simpler way of...