On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:38 PM, blaze spinnaker > <blazespinna...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Well, we don't know how long it was actually at 1.6T >> >> Maybe that was a spike >> > > This is a good point. It might have been a sharp transient that is seen > intermittently. I personally don't know much about the claim. I see it is > mentioned in Kim's and Hadjichristos's slides. I'm inclined to think it > might not be the reason for the thick shielding around the device, which is > something that was mentioned a few days ago, if my memory serves me, as a > protection for electronics. Far more likely, it seems to me, the shielding > is to protect humans from radiation. If this is true, there are clear > reasons to keep this piece of information on the down-low. > > That is not to say there is no magnetic field. Perhaps there is, and > perhaps there is a strong one. All of this just underscores how little we > actually know apart from what has been provided to us by parties with a > horse in the game. > > Eric > > You have to divide everything he says by 10. ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEeLtqtNvU Harry