In reply to Bob Higgins's message of Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:23:21 -0700: Hi, >Since in this case we are talking about H or D Rydberg snowflakes, I think the >electrons are all in large planar Rydberg orbitals and this hexagonal Rydberg >snowflake would behave as a BEC. Because of that, if one of the electrons >were forced to take a different orbital, it may completely disrupt the >cluster. So I have been thinking about ways that the small separation could >occur that could work across an entire snowflake all at once. > >I have mentally postulated that as more and more "snowflakes" align and stack, >perhaps the magnetic moment forces along the axis of the aligned atoms squeeze >the layers together, just as 3 magnet disks stacked will produce a greater >axial field than 2 magnet disks. In the case of disk magnets, as the number >in the stack increases, at some point the axial field will not continue to >increase - because of the high permeability of the magnetic material, the >field will leak out the sides. It could be that these highly anisotropic >Rydberg snowflakes may not suffer that effect and the axial magnetic field may >continue to increase for a large number of stacked layers. [snip]
The problem I have with this approach is that while the magnetic attraction does increase with additional layers, so does the electrostatic repulsion, and electrostatic force is always greater than or equal to magnetic force (or not?) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
