Re: [LONG] Jump Points Redux -or- Once More Into the Rubber Science mines

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:11:53 -0800, pervect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:23:26 GMT, Joseph Hertzlinger
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:40:58 -0800, pervect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> It still bothers me that every other force we know of drops off as
>>> inverse sqaure or faster - this force doesn't fit that model.  But I
>>> haven't been able to think of anything to back up my unease.
>>
>>A system consisting of a charged particle and a magnetic monopole will
>>act as though it has an angular momentum. The magnitude of the angular
>>momentum will not depend on the distance between the two particles.
> 
> Is this a quantum effect?  I drew some diagrams on the back of an
> envelope for a classical monopole + charge, and there didn't seem to
> me to be any reason for the system to have angular momentum.

It's a classical effect. The Poynting vectors (redundant term, all
vectors Poynt) of the EM field will go around a line connecting the
two particles.

The effect of the angular momentum is that the system will act like a
gyroscope.

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