Elastic strings are ejected with great velocity

To the south of Rockville tower the Eagle Crags, spires of Navaho sandstone that hover as sentinels over the gate to Zion National Park. The west slope beneath the stark monoliths is covered with a deep layer of coral sand, a remnant of the Navaho sandstone that once covered much of southern Utah. When we were kids, my cousin and I climbed to a point just beneath the Eagle Crags where we began our rapid descent down the steep slope of coral sand to the valley below. It is perhaps as close to flying as you will ever get without donning a parachute or taking up a pair of skis. We didn’t leap tall buildings like Superman, but we did leap over tall bushes with a single bound. On that day the gravitational force of attraction almost took a holiday.

We may have felt like we were flying, but our speed would more resemble a dead bug compared to the velocity that strings are ejected into space.

The electron in orbit about a proton goes through one oscillation cycle in about 0.0000000000000001 seconds. This is also the period of time it takes to eject and retract the strings responsible for the magnetic field. Now consider that the magnetic field around Earth extends some 20 million meters into space, and the string must travel that distance and return in this brief period of time. To accomplish this feat it must travel some 100000000000000000000000 meters per second, that’s 10 raised to the 23 rd power.

Is there any evidence for this conjecture? The answer is yes, and I will discuss this issue in my next blog. Kelland—www.vestheory.com