[1] viXra:0801.0001 [pdf] submitted on 14 Jan 2008
Authors: Michael Snyder, Jonathan Frederick
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
Understanding magnetic fields is important to facilitate
magnetic applications in diverse fields in industry,
commerce, and space exploration to name a few. Large
electromagnets can move heavy loads of metal. Magnetic
materials attached to credit cards allow for fast, accurate
business transactions. And the Earth's magnetic field gives
us the colorful auroras observed near the north and south
poles.
Magnetic fields are not visible, and therefore often hard to
understand or characterize. This investigation describes
and demonstrates a novel technique for the visualization of
magnetic fields. Two ferrofluid Hele-Shaw cells have been
used to facilitate the imaging of magnetic field lines
[1,2,3,4]. We deduce that magnetically induced photonic
band gap arrays similar to electrostatic liquid crystal
operation are responsible for the photographed images and
seek to mathematically prove the images are of exact dipole
nature. We also note by comparison that our photographs
are very similar to solar magnetic Heliosphere
photographs.
Category: Classical Physics