It has to be said that atoms in such magnetic field becomes something odd. Back in the 90s when I was working on orbital dynamics for the intelligence community I found myself working on a problem with the orbit of a highly charged object. Why was I looking at this? Well, I will defer from discussing that. A charged body in orbit around the Earth or any gravitating body with a magnetic field orbits on these spirals that hover over the magnetic poles. The charged mass bounces up and down on this spiral. In a classical setting this is not hard to understand and one has to solve the dynamical equation for *B* the magnetic field
*F* = q*v*×*B* - GMm*r*/r^3, where numerical programming is convenient. If you quantize this these spirals becomes elongated lobes of electron shells. For extreme magnetic field these becomes stringy. The Lorentz force is not due to a potential function, so while it exerts a force it does no work. The Lorentz force is perpendicular to the displacement, which is an elementary physics way of thinking of this. I this way the electrons are not stripped off the atom. So any atom around a pulsar is in this bizarre configuration. LC On Friday, September 11, 2020 at 7:39:45 AM UTC-5 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > The strongest magnetic field ever detected was just found by a Chinese > astronomical X-ray orbital telescope, it is in a Pulsar called GRO > J1008-57. The Pulsar has a magnetic field of about one billion Tesla. By > comparison a hospital MRI machine has a field of about 2 Tesla, and the > strongest magnetic field humans have ever produced was 45.5 Tesla at the > National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Tallahassee Florida in 1999; it > took 30 MW of power to run and nobody has been able to beat that 35 ton > magnet's record since then. > > Strongest magnetic field in universe directly detected by X-ray space > observatory > <https://phys.org/news/2020-09-strongest-magnetic-field-universe-x-ray.html> > > John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/5d810790-4dea-4ce9-9433-b66bf3708409n%40googlegroups.com.
