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Main Forums => Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap => Topic started by: Agent_Tachyon on February 19, 2007, 11:14:14 PM
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http://www.cheniere.org/misc/astroboots.htm
I know this is on a free-energy freak site and there's a nutty conspiracy theory in there, but is the idea of magnetic flux switching total BS? The boots themselves look sorta cool.
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Yeh, sorry, but it's BS. The "flux" is simply the magnetic fields; patterned by polarity. He shows a diagram of switching "something" , but his polarity never changes; therefore, the "flux" doesn't "switch on and off".
I think he just learned that "flux" was a real thing, and ran with it.
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What about my flux capacitor then? Explain that one smartypants. :x
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You should probably return that to Blockbuster pretty soon.
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Yeh, sorry, but it's BS. The "flux" is simply the magnetic fields; patterned by polarity. He shows a diagram of switching "something" , but his polarity never changes; therefore, the "flux" doesn't "switch on and off".
I think he just learned that "flux" was a real thing, and ran with it.
Yeah I was just messing around with some magnets and bits of old box cutters and things I had on my desk and was struck by the cool effect that anything stuck to the magnet can attract other things around it and for some reason this nut's page made a slight bit of sense.
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That's the flux in effect; the attraction. The domains in the metal line up according to polarity; when another object gets in this field, it exerts the same force on the domains in the new object to line up according to polarity. You CAN switch this magnetic field on and off; but that involves either an electromagnet switching on and off (the power); or an electromagnet switching polarity (which doesn't actually turn the field off; just reverses it).
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Yeah that was the basic conclusion I reached as well. Thanks for confirming that, it's good to know somebody with knowledge a bit more extensive than ten year old memories of reading Getting Started in Electronics and an armload of soldering iron burns.