boriz

I did some drunk posting. Can't even remember what I posted. Apologies to everyone. I'll get my coat...

I did some drunk posting. Can't even remember what I posted. Apologies to everyone. I'll get my coat...

Thank you for addressing my question. Tiny heat loss is heat loss. Any heat loss at all is what I was looking for. Thank you. Now my magnetic on orbit attitude mechanism invention has promise. I'll mention you on the paper, if there is one

Very happy to talk about that on another thread. This is not about weapons, unless you make it so.

Take two magnets and push them together opposite poles. Don't let them touch, just get them close and hold that. See how pushing is required? See how energy is expended? Hold them still, yet you are still using force. This is the conversation. Try to keep them 2mm apart, Is it hard? Does it use some force? Are you using energy? Where does that energy go? [snip]

No. [snip] Here's a video of distorting magnetic fields. [snip]

Thank you for that. However I'm interested in what happens in the compressed fields, not the metals. Does a compressed magnetic field take energy to compress? Is some of that energy in the field itself or is it all in the metal? I'm not a pseudoscience amazing person. I'm asking a question that was probably explained in my school physics lessons, but I was distracted by that girl.

I appreciate your answer and the time you took to make it. My understanding on this subject has been increased. Thank you. I am however still curious about how energy is moved/stored in distorted magnetic fields. And the losses therein.

If we are talking about a magnetic field passing through a conductor, eddie currents and such, the heat is generated in the metal of course, but with opposing magnets, the fields don't pass through each other, they press against each other and distort. I suppose my question is do distorted fields produce their own heat, outside of the metal?

We do use magnetic fields for energy storage. They are called inductors.

I have a related question, if I may. When you compress a spring, it heats up. Work it repeatedly and it heats up a lot. How does this translate to compressing the fields of opposing magnets. A magnetic spring if you will. If worked repeatedly, what heats up? Just the metal of the magnet, or is some heat generated in the air between?

OMG. My fave new acronym. TONP. Better than TLDR.

Entry withdrawn.

We'll crash and burn?

Ah. Of course. I was thinking the KSP2 IP was a different entity.

Evert heard of Roko's Basilisk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut-zGHLAVLI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

Kirk would kick Picard's ass.

Surely there's some sort of free forum server/service that can be used, at least until something more permanent gets established? Who owns the IP for the original KSP?

Dr who was gay all along.