Well done, Jones! Creativity works with bisociations (see Kostler) Peter
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > In automotive engineering, there are several idealized energy transfer > cycles which involve four clearly segmented stages of engine operation. For > instance, the Otto cycle consists of: > 1) Intake, Compression, Expansion, Exhaust which are further arranged > as > 2) Two isentropic processes - adiabatic and reversible and > 3) Two isochoric processes - constant volume > 4) As an "idealized" cycle, this never happens completely in practice, > but it permits substantial gain in a ratchet-like way and substantial > understanding of the process. > 5) There are many other idealized cycles for combustion, such as the > Stirling which is probably closer, as an analogy, to nanomagnetism > > In nanomagnetism, there is a corresponding strong metaphor involving a > similar kind of 4 legged hysteresis curve, where we find > 1) Antiferromagnetism, superparamagnetism, ferrimagnetism and > superferromagnetism working in a repeating cycle > 2) The remainder of the analogy is under development but there are two > reversible processes involving field alignment, requiring two operative > classes of reactants - one mobile and one stationary > 3) Nanomagnetism requires a ferromagnetic nucleus which is nominally > stationary. (yes, palladium and titanium alloy can be ferromagnetic) > 4) Nanomagnetism requires a mobile medium, loaded or absorbed into the > ferromagnet which has variable magnetic properties. > 5) Hydrogen and its isotopes appears to be the exclusive mobile > medium, > which can oscillate between diamagnetic (as a molecule) and strongly > paramagnetic (as an absorbed atom) > 6) Spin coupling provides the transfer of energy from the > ferromagnetic > nucleus to the mobile nucleus in a method similar to induction. > 7) Inverse square permits very strong effective fields for transfer of > spin energy from nickel-62, for instance. > 8) Nanomagnetism seems to boosted by the presence of an oxide of the > ferromagnet - i.e. nickel with a small percentage of nickel oxide but the > oxide is not required. > > This is an emerging hypothesis, the details of which are fluid, but... > shall > we say... "attractive" :-) > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
