/sci/ - Science & Math

what are field lines, and the stuffness inbetween the field lines made of?

>>14618683
Why are there lines and shouldn't it be continuous instead of discreete lines?

>>14618665
magnetic fields are straight, it's space-time that curves.

A magnetic field created by a straight wire is less curved. Bend this wire into a circle, and the field starts looking like the one of a common magnet.

>>14618683
>>14618665
>>14618723
If you take the most powerful (non electro magnets as that would skew the purity of the query) magnets (in vacuum) that can be formed in the world, and take very strong hydrolic machines to hold them and slowly move them together N pole to N pole, so there is repulsion: what is happening between them, are photons being emitted? Are the fields shaking? Is energy detected?

>>14618723
An interference pattern. Photons love making those.

>>14618665
Atoms. Lots of them.

>>14618665
There are no single poles. There's always a north and a south. Reason why is the electron leaves one place. That has too much electron. The opposite side of that wants an electron.

The only thing a magnetic field actually does is, it makes everything spin together with its source. When its source moves in a closed trajectory, everything affected by the field gets attracted to the center of this trajectory.

>>14618837
Some one answer this please

because the field goes from north pole to south pole
how else are you going to go from north to south without curving 360 degrees?

>>14619621
You can construct a magnet where the north and south poles directly face each other and the field doesn't have to curve to connect them.

>>14619649
Ooo this is interesting

its actually straight, but appears curved due to spactime curvature

this can be viewed using a vector graph