I remember being 16 or so and wanting to do plasma physics and had all these highfalutin ideas about controlled nuclear fusion and space propulsion. Picked up a copy of Plama Physics and Magnetohydrodyamics" at a library book sale (I don't remember the authors. Little red book). I also was pretty trollish (16, recall) on forums. I thought this whole mess was like me seeing a younger version of myself in someone else and was a chance to point them in directions I wish I was once upon a time.
Over the course of the day of switching between EEVblog forums and prepping my shower rebuild for grouting I alternated between "This is some kid with nothing to do after school is out" to "Someone who's first language isn't English is running a con"
Im from the highland and islands of scotland, our national language is Gaelic. Every heard of a band called Runrig? You will have heard the song loch lomond, thats them. Not to be confused with irish or welsh Gaelic. Surprisingly enough when england started colonisation of the world they started with their next door neighbors.
As stated heaps of times now im dyslexic. Not that it matters since this is really a look at the blatantly obvious pictures that show he different perspectives of magnetic fields, tidal forces and quadrupole lope alignment. I mean most ppl can see a helical wave, they just dont seem to be able to understand how wave build on top of smaller waves. They do in 2D but not in 3D.
Did the books you read all them years ago explain how an ion moves under the influence of a magnetic field?
If they didnt here is a simply picture for you to look into. A few month ago a guy on quora claimed i didnt know what i was talking about too, then went to his computer simulations and confirmed that an ion does indeed move in a helical pattern under a magnetic field. Then said but your still wrong. The cognitive dissonance was strong with that one. 😂
If an ion in the earth atmosphere is moving, is it moving inside a magnetic field? Sorry RJ i know its another question, but like most of the others they are so obvious that a 2 year old could answer them.
Now put 2 of them ionic helical waves beside each other. Then go back to my picture of the 2 helical waves in the conductors that result in Coulomb's law and you might start to understand why 2 ions attract as they accelerate.
Now turn the direction of 1 ionic helical wave and you might start to understand why they repel.