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Old 12-08-2016, 09:12 PM   #41
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I agree probably an electrical mod.

I know a guy with a Porsche 914, he replaced a turn signal indicator bulb with the wrong type (single element instead of dual)

If you left the turn signal ON and turned off they key, the engine would keep running.
Changed to the correct bulb and the problem went away.


Since this thread is derailed anyway, here's some electrical challenge questions:

If you accelerate an electron, it radiates EM waves right?
That is why we "wiggle electrons back and forth" in our radio transmitter antennas to make EM waves that then propagate away from the antenna.

So an electron falling towards the Earth is being accelerated by Gravity right?
What if I am falling WITH the electron.
Will I see EM waves coming from the electron?

Here's another:
I am sitting in space playing with a magnetic compass minding my own business and in the distance I see my buddy that told me he would be passing by today with his friend the "bare naked electron".

As he passes by me, the electron is moving at steady state (this is equivalent to a current) so I look down at my compass and sure enough, the needle spins around right as my buddy and his 'naked electron' pass me by.
This is because an electron moving past me is an electrical current.
Electrical currents make static magnetic fields.

Question: Does my buddy sense a magnetic field?
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