Re: ORIGINAL simple magnets question

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Herb Schulz wrote:

> At 12:15 PM -0700 on 6/27/99, William Beaty wrote:
> > Perhaps I'm confused.  I thought that GR works in NONinertial frames.
> > Therefor the spinning disk-magnet can only be attacked via GR.  (Perhaps
> > the GR goes away if we are close to the rim of a large magnet, so the
> > magnet doesn't appear to move if we travel along with it.)
>
> Howdy,
>
> I believe that E&M Theory and GR don't mix which had been a problem to be
> solved for the better part of this century.

I've been told that GR has problems with rotating reference frames, and
that EM has problems with rotating magnets and capacitors.  A portion of
the Russian physics community insists that Relativity must be extended to
treat the physics of spin, and they say that this was already done by
Einstein: the Einstein-Cartan Theory or ECT.  This is all beyond me, of
course.  Another portion of the Russian physics community says its all
pseudoscience.

I keep going on about the spinning magnet-disk because it seems to be the
simplest example which illustrates this "motional field" stuff.



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