Toroidal field electromagnetism

[PB666]

So the basic idea is that when you accelerate a charge from some sort of stable configuration, such as an electron field of an atom that the typical response is that the destabilized field will leak electromagnetism, the dyrac diagrams explain how this happens. But what happens when you destabilize a field and no EM leaks out, this seems to defy physics. What these authors are offering is a way around the problem, that if the charges enter a toroidal pattern the lost EM is fed back into the system conserving the energy. Anyway read it yourself and see if you can come up with a clearer understanding.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/anu-ntl082615.php

The potential here is to have less loss in things like display devices, or say transmission in fiber optic cables, or all sorts of other devices.

They claim that it also gives the possibility of creating tiny x-ray lasers, this might someday be useful in the treatment of cancer.

[KSK]

I'm afraid that all I'm getting out of this is that it's a horribly written press release. It looks like they cut down whatever version they got from the researchers to make it fit some arbitrary word count but in the process, they managed to kill any sort of logical flow that the article may have had.

Then again, I'm not a physicist. Presumably Cartesian multipoles and toroidal dipoles (associated with poloidal current configurations no less) might mean a bit more to them. I'd like to think the article isn't complete guff.

[PB666]

Its reddit bait. But then again this is a thread so instead of complaining we could look up the original article or we can find a better news story.

Think of it like this there is RL and then there is Reddit, a largely inappropriate, randomized and chaotic NSFRL.

We are grateful for the sprites to bring it to our attention, but we have to keep in mind that sprites are a nefarious sort.

[KSK]

Its reddit bait. But then again this is a thread so instead of complaining we could look up the original article or we can find a better news story.

Think of it like this there is RL and then there is Reddit, a largely inappropriate, randomized and chaotic NSFRL.

We are grateful for the sprites to bring it to our attention, but we have to keep in mind that sprites are a nefarious sort.

Indeed. Or the original poster could have provided a link to the source article to kick off an informed debate rather than simply link to the Reddit-bait and then add his own speculation on top.

Anyway, article is here. Figure 1 is probably the easiest place to start (I don't pretend to follow the maths.) Looks like a perfectly reasonable paper to me, with a couple of interesting results. Nothing physics defying in there that I can see and I have no idea where that sensationalist horse manure about explaining dark matter and violating fundamental tenets of electrodynamics came from.