Rambling Magnet Question

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So if you can get infinitely smaller on the number line, that means there’s infinite resolution between colors if that makes any sense, and sounds—any sort of wave—because a wave is like a line, but it radiates out like a ripple, but it is limited by other inter/disrupting waves—but the question is: Is it the wave the ripples or the stuff that ripples— Could you have ripples without stuff?

IOW:

That gets to my questions about what propagates the initial … magnetism. If a material is not already magnetic— but material requires magnetism to do what it is doing— What got the first magnetism started?

I will ask AI elsewhere later if y’all are stumped.

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This is a screenshot of a wave. It is what a wave is, a measurement of voltage over time. Notice that there is 5 nanoseconds (ns) of time per division on the x axis, and there are 14 divisions on the entire screen, so from the left side of the screen to the right side of the screen is 14 x 5 nanoseconds, or 70 nanoseconds, which is .000000070 of a second for the entire screen left to right.

The vertical cursors are measuring the time for 1 cycle of the 50 million cycles per second (50 MHz) of the wave. Notice that it is 20 nanoseconds for 1 cycle. That means that 1 / .000000020 = 50,000,000 cycles per second, or as shown in the frequency measurement in the lower left, 50 MHz, which is 50 million cycles per second. You know how fast this scope is? It measures 1 of those 50 million cycles.

In comparison, that would be like switching a light switch on and off 50 million times in 1 second, and having a camera that was so fast that it could take a picture of just 1 of those switches.

Hence, this is a wave and it is a measure of frequency, which when multiplied by the wavelength equals the speed of light.

So the wavelength between the vertical cursors is 299,792,458 / 50,000,000 = 5.99584916 meters. Roughly 6 meters. Hey! Guess what the Ham Radio guys call the frequency of 50 MHz? Yup, 6 meters. :wink:

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Something tells me you could translate the circle of fifths into a rainbow.

& thanks:

https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/is-the-sun-pushing-or-pulling/80137/31?u=ichthus77

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Wavelength and frequency are proportional to each other. The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. 299,792,458 meters can be divided infinitely, so that there are infinite wavelengths and infinite proportional frequencies, and hence infinite colors. Unfortunately the human eye sucks as a frequency and wavelength meter.

299,792,458 / .000000400 = 749,481,145,000,000

So a wavelength of .000000400 meters (which is 400 nanometers) has a frequency of 749,481,145,000,000 which is a frequency of 749 TeraHertz.

It works the other way too:

299,792,458 / 749,481,145,000,000 = .000000400

or…

.000000400 x 749,481,145,000,000 = 299,792,458

Since wavelength x frequency must equal the speed of light then there are infinite combinations of wavelength and frequency that equal the speed of light.

So yes, there are infinite colors because there are infinite wavelengths and infinite frequencies.

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I(a)m stumped, but . me(know) is not Meno

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Magnets are a good example of where our physics understanding is flawed.

A magnet produces a force, yet F=MA can’t deal with this unless the magnet is causing something (or itself) to move.

A magnet stationary on your fridge isn’t accelerating, so the force should be zero. But it is constantly exerting a force to resist the counter-force of gravity. Go figure.

Oh, and the fact magnets can exert this force continuously, forever, without running out. A sort of limited scope of unlimited FREE power. Also something I don’t think physics understands.

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Hate to be specific Humanize, but it’s not only the fridge that went out, but there is an inexplicable central power source which caused an uncertain source of interruption in service, of course that’s saying very little I realize, but only that can be said that’s coming from personal experience.

Never hard feelings in love and war, that’s why the invitation is outstanding

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Magnets are ‘free’ power but this can’t be exploited directly because once you use that power to cause movement there is loss. Drain on the system. Even just a little friction here or there, a little bit of heat, not even counting the energy you’re taking out of the system.

The magnet can only provide a steady constant output, which is why it can chill on your fridge unmoving, defying gravity. But it can’t seemingly be used in perpetual motion machines to produce free energy to do other stuff with. It’s a funny paradox. The magnet is giving out free force continuously around itself, without ever stopping, but this can’t be increased to compensate for taking some of that energy out of the system to make it useful for something else. Then again maybe you could do something simple with it, like light a lightbulb. You should be able to wrap copper wire around a magnet and connect it to a lightbulb to cause it to turn on. Why not? The electrons in the copper should be moving once their coiled properly inside the magnetic field, and moving electrons is what causes electricity.

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