On 7/30/05, Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In reply to David Jonsson's message of Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:17:16 > +0200: > Hi, > [snip] > >Hi > > > >I wonder if ZPE can be involved in the distribution of thermal motion > >of low density plasmas. These distributions are found to be of > >Maxwellian type even when collisions are too few to maintain the > >distribution. This is called the Langmuir paradox. > [snip] > How can they be "too few to maintain the distribution"? Even a > single particle alone in a container will collide with the walls > (where there are lots of particles).
God point. I think they mean magnetic bottle plasma confinement. Then of course you could argue if thermal heat can be attributed to the heat of the magnetic walls, their vibration. I have heard of temperature of magnetic field (cold magnetic fields) but never in any established contexts. Could this be the explanation? Someone? Maybe another clue is the inconsistency of talking of particle speed and temperature interchangeably. If particles have temperature, then waves should too. I should probably take a course in statistical mechanics before asking more. David
