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First and foremost fluxions are something Newton invented to do with calculus. We are talking about fluxons..

So what is it then and why does it have the dimensions of energy ?

Seems a meaningless statement to me since, as a primary unit of energy, a fluxon can surely neither gain nor loose kinetic energy.

Good luck and don't try to do too much at once.

Thank you for your answer. So what is kinetic energy in a fluxon ? Thank you for an answers to one of my questions and this response to a comment. You did not comment on my question as to whether you agree that one neutron contains' 3 quarks ? You have yet to answer my simple question as to what you think a fluxon is ? Further I have no idea what the pretty blue arrows at the bottom of your last post in repeated several times now are meant to represent. Some pictures may indeed be worth 1000 words, but most pictures, including yours need at least some words for explanation.

Thank you for confirming we are talking about an overall electrically neutral neutron and proposing a structure that accomplishes this. Seems to me, however, that the jusry is still out on the structure, although we are presumably all agreed on the 3 quarks ? I still fail to understand the use of the term 'topological', and you have not address my previous question about this. Seems to me that all your information is of a geometrical nature, not a Topological one. ? For instance you talk of "increased size" which is definitly a geometrical attribute, not a topological one. Finally you still have not stated what you understand a fluxon to be. Do you regard it as a particle ? If so why does it not have the appropriate dimensions ? (using my coreected definition, sorry about that error). Please note I misquoted the units and corrected them in my subsequent post. "That should of course read is measured as approximately 2 x 10-7 gauss - cm2 (originally in CGS) or 2 x10-15 tesla - m2 (SI)" Further, I don't see what is 'dying away' in a fluxon ?

Whoops, sorry. An important error crept into my last post. That should of course read is measured as approximately 2 x 10-7 gauss - cm2 (originally in CGS) or 2 x10-15 tesla - m2 (SI) ie not per m2. I was focused on getting the superscript 2, and the slash slipped in from habit. 🙂 +1 What do you mean by this ?

If you didn't understand what an abstract space is why didn't you ask before ? Particularly as they were introduced by Lagrange, whom you mention. Do you know what Lagrange's 'generalised coordinates' are ? Lagrange's generalised coordinates were probably the first recognition of abstract spaces, I have already given an example of a plot of entropy v temperature. What exactly do you think a fluxon is ? Hint a fluxon is measured as approximately 2 gauss/cm2 (originally in CGS) or 2 tesla/m2 (SI)

Well that's your loss (or inconvenience) then since that is the reason those pages are preserved for posterity on this site. If you can't be bothered to put in some effort, then why do you expect others to do so for you ?

I give up. I have tried to discuss your points, but all you do is repeat them and ignore any comments. There has just been a longish thread about what small particles might look like and the conclusion was that particles don't 'look like' their plots in abstact space any more than those pictures you keep reproducing.

Can you demonstrate a living dodo or dinosaur ?

Indeed. Another might be for the farmer to operate a biodigester and run his machinery on the gas generated in a gas engine. The gas engine in turn might run a generator in the same way the railways found diesel-electric locomotive beneficial. (A number of farmers did exactly this in WWII, when they couldn't get oil). My point is, and always was, there are many competing factors and courses of action. Good engineering is about selecting the best or most appropriate given the constraints, which can include CO2 emissions.

Topology is primarily concerned with shape and connectivity. So yes, if the space you are working in has the requisite properties then you can 'fill' a shape in it with matter. But if the shape you are working with is say a surface in an Entropy / Temperature plot, or an Energy Temperature plot how would you accomplish this feat ? So to take my example of a hydraulic jump, The shape of the energy density v distance along flowbed is indeed a physical step function in the water surface that stands still. However for the equivalent phenomenon in a gas whilst it does indeed demonstrate the abstract step function neither stands still nor exhibits such a physical step function. I am, of course, referring to a shock wave. But the serious point I am making is that these abstractions are just mathematical models of the physical and only useful if they demonstrate the ability to predict something useful. @Duda Jarek appears to me to want to model material particles with these mathematical abstractions so my question to Duda is What properties can successfully be predicted by these models ?

Don't you lime and fertilise in Gloucester ?

I didn't say they were so limited. I said or meant I think that the term topological solitons refers to the same amthematical structure in abstract spaces (eg phase space)

The first physical solitons were reported by the first man to investigate such phenomena Russell J S Report on Waves Rep. 14the Meet.Brit.Adv.Sci.,York,311-90. 1884 He also uncovered another interesting interaction property of non linear waves.

And just how does the farmer store this electricity ? I'm not saying that hydrogen is the be-all and end-all. We need multiple solutions to multiple problems and situations. According to the UK government calculator (MCS) 29% of solar is generated during the 6 months Oct - March and 71% in Apr - Sep , just the time the farmer will be growning crops, not ploughing.

Both "moving and travelling" your own words about the video you linked to. I have now had the opportunity to watch this video and have a couple of comments. 1) As a demonstration it is interesting but you need to be able to explain (not just state) what it demonstrates. 2) There is a mistake in the presenter's script at about 2 and a half minutes. He says " the pendulums fly out further and further as the rotation speed increases" The bobs appear to be suspended on rigid rods so how is this possible ? 3) Yes : The mechanism does show a wave travelling along the length of the shaft, being reflected at the far end and travelling back. Two waves not one. Yes: These two waves interfere to produce a standing wave, non linear but conventional. These are not solitons. According to my understanding the following definitons apply. For a given waveshape, the speed of propagation of a nonlinear wave depends upon its amplitude. Larger amplitude waves of the same shape travel faster than smaller amplitude waves. If the waveshape of a single nonlinear travelling pulse does not change as it propagates, it is called a (travelling) solitary wave. A travelling solitary wave can interfere with another wave of the same shape but going the other way to produce a standing solitary wave. But also and unlike linear waves, that all travel at the same speed, nonlinear waves of the same shape but different amplitudes have additional posiible modes of interaction. The larger amplitude and therefore faster, non linear wave, can overtake another nonlinear wave. When it catches the first smaller wave, there is a time of complicated interaction. If the two waves finally emerge as before, they are called solitons. Not all nonlinear waves have this property of the faster wave being able to 'pass through' the slower one. Now you did not answer my question about the hydraulic jump. Your title is about macroscopic phenomena and I was trying to help you with physical understanding using this macroscopic phenomenon. From what I can make out, such waves can occur in a phase space rather than physical space. So we need to distinguish clearly between the physical and the model representation.

I don't see however big or small the solar farm is offers any answer at all to my question which was How do you get the solar generated electricity to a machine that is out in the fields where there are no electric points ? This is something farm machinery has in common with the excavator I linked to.

And how would you get the output from your solar farm to the large, energy hungry, agricultural machinery of today ?

Indeed so. But there are pitfalls as with anything in this world. Storage as heat or electricity can only ever be short term as both dissipate with time and require auxiliary apparatus which is not self contained to distribute. Long term storage will require other methods (storage as some form of potential energy) into the forseeable future.

The OP has had the benefit of this and similar and better advice but is obviouly a worrier. Perhaps he / she has family video on those DVDs. Irreplaceable as I said.

I, for one, have plenty of totally irreplaceable video tapes and have learned the hard way that old photographs and cine films fade, old video develops droputs and eventually fails.......... That is one reason Hollywood is investing $billions in restoration techniques for stuff they did not save at the time.

I can't watch the video at the moment and it is , as you say, someone else's model. This is your thread so you should be offering your supporting development, not just copy/pasting other people's work. Do you understand the hydraulic jump ? The hydraulic jump behaves in a very similar way to the graph you showed. The jump is 'stationary' in that it always occurs in the same place for a fixed geometry. It builds up, rather like the sequence of coloured curves in your top sigmoid plot, at a fixed point on the horizontal axis, until there is a macroscopic 'quantum jump' in the water surface. But the water has to be flowing.

So you have a bunch of unexplained mathematics, including a velocity term that tends to unity (1) and a couple of graphs with their axes not labelled. How does this demonstrate that a soliton is standing still ? Are you not not confusing a stationary state in a plot with an entity standing still ?