SamTheSerious

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I find the property of fields interesting, for instance you can have a magnetic or electromagnetic field that directly effects mass in the surrounding area but that mass is completly physicaly un-connected with the mass creating the field. What are fields in a physical sence?

well suppse you had a long tube that was under a vacuume, with electrodes at each end. When you apply a AC voltage between the ends if it was high enough voltage you would get a plasma between the electrodes so I was wondering if there would be a way to induce a solitary wave in that beam of plasma, it would probably look like a ball of plasma brighter then the rest that travels from one end to the other.

Hi, I've been thinking about soloid or solitary waves alot lately, and I was wondering has anyone successfully built a soloid generator that used plasma as its medium? I looked into the topic but only found demonstrations in a water tank or in a tank of metal balls. I would seem logical to me that such a wave could be generated in a plasma, what do you think?

I think the only case where this would be correct is in logic gates, for instance a OR gate with the inputs 1 and 1 will have output of 1, but if you wanted to answer to be binary then 1 + 1 = 10 or 0 in binary depending on the max bit size that you are allowed to use.

Hi, just joined the fourum looks like it has some very interesting topics. I'm a electrical and computer engineer currently employed as a research engineer (best job ever)!