Gravitation and magnetism
Abstract
t is shown by the methods of kinematic relativity that there should be a onnection between gravitation and magnetism of the type suggested by the empirical formulae of Blackett and Wilson, multiplied however by certain dimensionless ratios. The field of a rotating system cannot be represented by a dipole. The derivation only applies rigorously to a rotating system like a galaxy, with its centre at a fundamental particle. The results obtained suggest that for a given mean density and given angular momentum, a highly flattened system should have an effective magnetic moment greater than a less flattened system.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1950
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/110.4.266
- Bibcode:
- 1950MNRAS.110..266M