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nuiluidwde
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Hi, I've got conflicting impressions on the motion of particles in tokamak reactors. Wikipedia says that they generally follow the poloidal field lines due to the Lorentz force, whilst another site claimed that the promising results were due to the random motion of the particles within the plasma, traveling in many different directions, suggesting that overall the plasma is almost static with zero net momentum.
Is the reality that they are all generally traveling fast in the same general direction of the field lines, either clockwise or counterclockwise, but that relativistically they appear to have random motion, just as on Earth we are all traveling east at hundreds of miles an hour due to the rotation of the earth, but relativistically we appear to all be moving in different directions?
Thanks, I hope my question makes sense
Is the reality that they are all generally traveling fast in the same general direction of the field lines, either clockwise or counterclockwise, but that relativistically they appear to have random motion, just as on Earth we are all traveling east at hundreds of miles an hour due to the rotation of the earth, but relativistically we appear to all be moving in different directions?
Thanks, I hope my question makes sense