On 3 Jan, 16:39, Richard Clark wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:57:08 -0800 (PST), Derek

wrote:
* * But it is midway between the pole's on the other side of the
globe, which is more to the point of Art"s observation than your nit
picking.

Howland Island is near dead on the Equator, Bermuda is not even close.
Howland Island is near dead on the international date line, Bermuda is
nowhere near the Prime Meridian (opposite side). *The opposite side of
the Earth for Howland Island would be south of the Ivory Coast in
Central-West Africa! *

I have sailed in the Bermuda triangle many times (to no shocking
results) and Bermuda is three times closer to Boston than Quito
Ecuador which is midway between the poles.

Bermuda is also on 65 degrees West longitude, 180 degrees away (or 115
degrees East longitude) is the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific (and I've
been to both oceans too, crossing the full Pacific twice before I was
8 years old).

If nit picking amounts to a difference of 8000 kilometers, you must
have your money on one hell of a spread.

This doesn't bode well for Art's magnetic compass correction factors.
Even Gauss could tell the difference between the Indian Ocean and the
Pacific Ocean (and he would have looked at a globe first before
uttering this foolishness).

After all, this is really very simple stuff, but I guess you have to
have been there to appreciate these nit picking issues.

As for diamagnetic curls of the magnetic field, if no one responded to
this baloney, Art's ideas would die miserable solitary lives. Laughing
at them is about the best currency exchange he can hope for.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard
You are just not reading what is written. The multi poles of the eath
do NOT dissect the center of the earth so their poles are never
exactly opposite but they are the other side of the World
Regarding diadmagnetic fields,
You have stated that to move a electron takes 10 to 100 x10 to the
plus tenth value Tesla force which frankly is for a bonded electron or
particle. A field to hold a inter galactic particle that Gauss calls
static particles need only a magnetic field to the tune of 5 x 10 to
the MINUS tenth value which is a very weak magnetic field and makes
your figure look a bit silly. This compares favorability to a
diagmagnetic field as formed from an aluminum conductor or radiator.
This level of field can only marginally affect a ferrite based compass
but I threw that in for general interest, especially when the field is
generated at right angles to the normal ferrite magnetic field. I
don't think anybody has determined why so many planes including a
group of planes flew inexplicitely in the wrong direction in the
Berbuda triangle where they perished or why Amelia failed to arrive
at her destination after traversing several thousand miles succesfully
on her journey around the world flight.But as far as the "foolishness"
of a curving trajectory. It is well known that the earth turns. If you
are not sure study a pendulum to see that it only not goes backwards
and forwards but it also rotates, and there are many places that
feature a large pendulum to illustrate this circular function.
If you are familier with vector forces you will note that one of the
vectors is also called "curl" which mimics the weak diagmatic field of
the earth but is magnified by a diamagnetic radiator based on the
inverse square law.You also continually think or have a fixation in
terms of a electron gun, which is a completely different animal
compared to Galactic or interstellar dust that pervades this earth of
ours. It sounds impressive but if you don't understand the nature of a
static partical it does make you look silly with those knoweledgable
in the field in the same way you decided to deride a Doctor from
M.I.T. who is working on a NASA space project on a simple mathematical
problem. So read carefully, and stop jumping to conclusions that are
not intimated by my writings in efforts to anger people in your
postings. I will not go as far as Cecil did by infering you are insane
because I consider your comments are deliberate to precipitate anger,
tho why you do this I do not know.
Art Unwin....KB9MZ.....XG (uk)