{"id":59,"date":"2008-04-27T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/permanent-magnets-2-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-27T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T19:06:15","slug":"permanent-magnets-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/permanent-magnets-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a stationary permanent magnet holds a steel object, a paper clip for example, against the force of gravity, where does the energy come from to continually hold the clip?\u00a0 Since work is force times distance, an undergraduate student may say there is no distance moved and therefore no work is done.\u00a0 On a quantum level however, things are not motionless, and it does take energy to hold the clip.\u00a0 The answer I think starts with the entry on this blog called \u201cThe Nucleus and Gravitons\u201d.\u00a0 The energy expended through the individual atomic dipole moments of the permanent magnet to hold a ferromagnetic material object against the pull of gravity can come from gravity itself.\u00a0 The nuclei of the atomic dipoles of the permanent magnet may be absorbing gamma rays at and very near 7.562 x 10<sup>22<\/sup> Hz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a stationary permanent magnet holds a steel object, a paper clip for example, against the force of gravity, where does the energy come from to continually hold the clip?\u00a0 Since work is force times distance, an undergraduate student may say there is no distance moved and therefore no work is done.\u00a0 On a quantum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}