TALE OF THE IMPLODING TV

[TinselKoala]

Hmmm-HEYDUDE told me about this thread and suggested I go here with rotating plasma demonstration from JK to avoid cluttering the MAC CD thread.
It's somewhat off topic by now, but here it is anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3grPo81fBrA

I would be interested to hear alternative explanations of the effect.
Without derailing this thread, of course.
Thanks, HEYDUDE!

[innovation_station]

It's possible this is not the TV to which SM referred.  Or it's possible the govt decided 'could cause X-Rays' sounded better than 'could suck you and your loved-ones through an infinitessimally small hole into a parallel antimatter universe'.    

well well

hummmm   kinda nice to know what we play with aint it ....




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[Gobaga]

and back to the subject at hand...

What force would cause magnetic materials to twist as they came out of the wall and then propel them through a semi-solid body?

This was not magnetic.  Not electrostatic.  Much more potent.

[Jdo300]

Here's my take on it:

We know that the deflection yoke has two frequencies going into it to control the horizontal and vertical tracing pattern on the CRT screen. Lets say that something happens to one of the two circuits that controls the frequency of this tracing circuit such that the electron beam is caused to rotate in a circle. If the frequency is just right, and the phase shift is just right, it wouldn't take long to build up a 'supercurrent' of electrons rotating within the space of the yoke. This could for an instant build up a magnetic field many orders of magnitude greater than anything achievable with a coil since the electron beam constitutes a convection current, which, unlike conduction currents have just about no resistance in vacuum. So imagine what happens if this 'supercoil' of electrons creating this hyper-intense magnetic field were to collapse if something burned out? The collapsing field from a beast like that could easily have caused some of the effects mentioned.

Just my two cents 

God Bless,
Jason O

[HEYDUDE]

TinselKoala

Thanks for the very nice rotating plasma demonstration. It is definitely on this topic. We welcome further explorations into such related phenomena.

To all

Thanks for participating in this thread. So far there has been a lot of good information and ideas coming forth.

HD