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Old 30-January-2008, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Harry Fryer
...like spinning a ball on a piece of string creates a force that travels in towards the axis of the spin, so the rapidly circling magnetic field surrounding the Earth does the same.
Surely this force is going in the wrong direction. If you imagine yourself as the earth, whirling a ball on a string around you, you can feel the ball pulling away from you, not falling towards you.
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