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Old 29-April-2006, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by sol88
This would be a good place to start APOD's pic of the day

Seems to me there are a lot more stories recently, hinting strongly at the electrical nature of the universe. this story if looked at not from a "black hole" but a "homoplolar motor" point of view, makes perfect sense.
How?

I mean, how does it 'make perfect sense'?

In your answer, please be sure to provide OOM estimates, or state clearly that you have no quantitative basis for your claim.
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It's mother natures most efficient energy conversion motor
What does this mean?

I mean, the statement itself is pretty unambiguous ("most efficient" means, among other things, "there is no other mechanism, known to early 21st century Homo sapiens or not yet so known, that is more efficient").

What is the efficiency coefficient? How was such efficiency determined? measured?

In terms of the 'homopolar motor', what are the parameters which characterise NGC 4696's homopolar motor? (I guess, this being an EU thread, that they involve things like charges, currents, magnetic fields, and so on)
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And it has all the hallmarks of an electrical event.
What are those 'hallmarks'? How many of them are there? (be sure that you have listed "all" in your reply) What is the duration of this 'electrical event'?