AC,
What is it with you and Brad drawing straight angular/diagonal lines through the body of a magnet to depict something about the magnet's magnetization? Surely this is not to be taken literally. Personally I find such drawings to be confusing and unlike anything I would imagine going on inside a magnet. It just doesn't seem "natural"...
Is this some recently accepted drawing convention related to a PM I have never seen before?
PW
I don't recall drawing any such thing, regarding the internal workings of the PMs body.
All the diagrams i use, are of your conventional drawings taken from the internet.
I only add or change things on those drawings to show what i believe to be correct.
If we are to stick to !convention!, then the forum might as well be shut down.
This forum exists to find errors and mistakes in know science, so as we can find that !over unity! device-is it not?
We are not here to stick with convention. We are here to find the unknown.
Your convention cannot explain what the magnetic field is, or how it can produce these invisible forces, whereas the two-field theory explains it quite well.
Knowing and understanding what we can do with the magnetic field, in no way shows or tells us what it actually is--unless you know what it is?
Everything we have that provides some form of energy, is a flow from a high energy state, to a low energy state.
Would you agree that it takes energy to align the magnetic domains within a ferromagnetic material?
If so, when we bring the fields of a PM close to say a piece of steel, where did the energy come from to align those magnetic domains within that piece of steel?
I will tell you where it came from--it came from the energy field that surrounds the PM.
The negative field at one end of the PM will cause electron spin alignment in one direction within the piece of steel, and the positive field at the other end of the PM, will cause electron spin alignment in the opposite direction in the piece of steel. There is your Lorentz force being applied to the electrons within the steel.
One thing i would like to ask you PW.
You stated in another post that you do not believe that the magnetic field is fixed in space, but rotates with the PM.
We can provide examples that shows the magnetic field is fixed in space, like the homopolar generator and motor.
Can you provide examples that show the field to be rotating with the PM ?
I only ask, as i am not aware of any such examples, but if they exist, i would like to see them, as this would add to us understanding what the magnetic field is.
Brad
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