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Grad Student Wins Alan Alda's Flame Challenge
eldavojohn writes "Scientists have long been criticized of their inability to communicate complex ideas adequately to the rest of society. Similar to his questions on PBS' Scientific American Frontiers, actor Alan Alda wrote to the journal Science with a proposition called The Flame Challenge (PDF). Contestants would have to explain a flame to an eleven-year-old kid, and the entries would be judged by thousands of children across the country. The winner of The Flame Challenge is quantum physics grad student Ben Ames, whose animated video covers concepts like pyrolysis, chemiluminescence, oxidation and incandescence boiled into a humorous video, complete with song. Now they are asking children age 10-12 to suggest the next question for the Flame Challenge. Kids out there, what would you like scientists to explain?"
If you really want to know how magnets work, don't look to the "Standard Model" for answers, because there isn't an answer in the standard model. Some doofus will probably conjure up some particle to fit a dream he had about magnetism and everyone else will believe it like it is some new religion. To me the standard model is a religion in itself.
I'm not going to attempt at explaining the standard model or how this is different. Suffice to say this has nothing to do with the standard model and will be modded down so far because none of this is in any college handbook. And like a 100 times before, if it isn't in a college hand book that someone here has read before, then it is all wrong.
If you really want to know, read on anyway.
All protons have Lagrange points inside of them. The more spheres(protons) fused inside of each other, the more Lagrange points the atom will have. These Lagrange points attract protons as well as electrons. When a proton is attracted to this Lagrange point, it is gravity. Electrons are also attracted to these Lagrange points too but are so small as not to affect gravity. Although if you load up the proton with enough electrons you can over come gravity.
But, the more electrons that are attracted to the Lagrange points inside the proton, the more the Lagrange point gets filled and other electrons start to orbit the Lagrange point. The electrons that are orbiting the Lagrange point at farther and farther points, the easier it is to fling them off to other Lagrange points inside the same proton or to other protons.
If a Lagrange point of a proton is more than half way from the exact center to the outer edge, the more likely the electron will be attracted to the proton outer edge itself instead of the Lagrange point. The Lagrange point at the half way point in between the outer edge and the exact center, the proton will become magnetic. The tipping point where the pull of the electrons will over come the force of gravity. Moving away from the half way point closer to the exact center makes it more conductive than magnetic.
That is why Iron is a good conductor and magnetic and copper is just a good conductor but not magnetic.
But closer and closer the Lagrange point gets to the dead center, the more it becomes a super conductor.
Helium is not a conductor of electricity at room temperature. Helium has two Lagrange points near the two outer edges. As Helium cools and the proton shrinks, that Lagrange point moves closer and closer to the center. At some certain temperature, the Lagrange points gets to half way in between the outer edge and the exact center. It then becomes a conductor of electricity. As it get colder and colder and shrinks to near absolute zero, the two Lagrange points merge at the center of the proton and it becomes a superconductor as it is as easy to push an electron into the proton as it is to fling out out of the center and on to another helium proton. ie.. no resistance to the proton as the electron passes through. Resistance in passing through is usually given up to the proton as the speed of the electron passing through causes the speed of the rotation of the proton to speed up. That causes the proton to expand, spin faster and we usually measure that as heat. It takes lots and lots of electrons for that to happen, not just one electron.
So magnetism is the point where the Lagrange points of electrons are sufficient enough to gather enough electrons to over come the force of gravity. A conductor is the point where Lagrange points of electrons can fly off of the Lagrange points to another proton easier than getting stuck to the Lagrange point caused by the rotating proton( or commonly called gravity). The closer to the center of the proton, the less resistance on passing through, to the point of no resistance and the proton becoming a superconductor.