sci.physics.electromag

After my last post at 1:28 am in #68, a thought came to my mind. Can I
compensate for a nanosecond current
in a Wimshurst generator by making the magnet so very tiny and very
weak? Instead of having a Wimshurst with
a near continuous flow of electric current to support a substantial
magnet, what if I reduced the size of the magnet
to that of a mere iron filing?

I have plenty of iron filings in my work and toolshop so I retrieved
some of them and magnetized them for
a 1/2 hour and then placed them on the electrode of the Wimshurst.

So when the sparks of the current crossed the electrode, if the iron
filings moved across the electrode to the
center of the electrode where the current would jump the gap, then I
would call this a Meissner Effect.

So this maybe a historic moment in the history of science in that I
may have witnessed the first ever of
a Meissner Effect produced by a Wimshurst generator.

The iron filings did move toward the center of the electrode.

Now some may complain that the methodology does not rule out the idea
that the current moved the iron
shavings and not the diamagnetism. But I do not think this is the case
of the current moving the shavings
for I offset them from the center of the electrode far enough.

So invite any other scientist to duplicate my results.

I believe I am the first to witness the Meissner Effect in a room
temperature electrical system, namely a
Wimshurst Generator. And if so, lightning bolts also can produce the
Meissner Effect. I am told that Ball
Lightning usually moves perpendicular to the current flow itself. So I
wonder if Ball Lightning is a Meissner
Effect on a macroscale?

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