Basic Charge Motion
TABLE of CONTENTS
The Essential Analogy
The Description of the Analogy
Amp Turns
Susceptors
The Asymmetry in Transition Metal Elements
Charge Motion Scale
Degrees of Freedom
Magnetic Viewpoint
Charge Bearing and Charge Motion Pattern Systems
The Energy-Motion Relationship
Myelination
The Essential Analogy
The essential analogy is that of a transformer.
A transformer provides a familiar example of electrical
and magnetic interaction.
The Description of the Analogy
The typical copper wire windings of the transformer,
which conduct the current of electrical charges (electrons), are situated
around a susceptor form or core of ferromagnetic substance.
Each winding of copper wire can be viewed as a related current path.
The windings are a series of linked, adjacent, current paths.
The motion of the charges in the windings of the primary copper wire coil
induce a magnetic flux in the core (susceptor).
In turn, the magnetic flux in the core induces a motion of charges
in the secondary windings, the secondary wire coil.
The magnetic flux in the core (susceptor) is actually supported
by asymmetric charge motions of the conducting electrons
within the polycrystalline structures of the core material,
very similar to the charge motion within the related current paths of the coil.
The difference is partly a matter of scale.
Just so, charge motions in related current paths in the nervous system
induce magnetic flux in susceptor substances and forms, which, in turn,
induce charge motions in related (tuned and resonant) current paths
which are secondary.
Amp Turns
One ratio of significance is ampere-turns or more simply amp-turns.
An amp-turn is a measure of magnetomotive force (1.26 Gb).
An ampere or amp is a unit of electric current flow
(6.2428 X 1018 electrons per second).
An ampere is a charge transfer rate of one coulomb per second.
The international ampere is the unvarying current which, when passed
through a solution of silver nitrate, in accordance with certain specifications,
deposits silver at the rate of 0.00111800 grams per second.
The international ampere is equivalent to 0.999835 absolute ampere.
The ampere is the constant current which, if maintained
in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular sections, and placed one meter apart in a vacuum, will produce between
those two conductors a force equal to 2 x10-7 newtons per meter of length.
The turn is the winding of copper wire.
This ratio of amps to turns means that the magnetic induction is proportional
to the current flow or flux of charge motion
in the related current paths (windings) and the number of turns in the windings.
Either an increase in the number of turns, or an increase in the current
(in amps), yields an increase in the magnetic flux.
Susceptors
When current changes, either in the amount of the flow of charges
or in the direction of flow, a responsive change occurs in the susceptor core.
In the case of a transformer, the core is usually made up of laminated flat iron
or iron-nickel alloy plates, often with an insulated coating
on each member plate of the lamination.
The core is made of many thin layers to prevent what are called eddy currents,
large scale currents which move through the core structure in response
to the charge motions in the coil or the related current paths of the windings.
The Asymmetry in Transition Metal Elements
The reason ferromagnetic materials are used in a transformer core
are because they are transition metal elements.
This means the orbitals in the subshells do not saturate (with two electrons each) before an electron occupies another orbital.
This creates a kind of asymmetry.
In the case of iron, nickel, or cobalt, these asymmetric orbitals
are in the third principal shell, the “d” azmuthal quantum shell.
Charge Motion Scale
To apply this analogy to neural structures, one must see
the large scale charge motions (like the coils or windings)
as interneural or axonal.
These large scale charge motions account for most
of the gross potential signal strength in electroencephalographic observation.
The susceptor core charge motions are intraneuronal, even intramolecular
or intra-atomic.
Degrees of Freedom
The large scale charge motions may occur in any number or any combination
of degrees of freedom.
This means motion not only
in the conventional perpendicular spatial dimensions,
each with two directions, but in the three rotational axes,
each with two directions.
Magnetic Viewpoint
Conventional images of the neuron view the nervous system
primarily as an electrical or chemical system.
Here, the neuron is viewed as primarily magnetic, with data-reducing,
correlative, electrical and chemical events.
Charge Bearing and Charge Motion Pattern Systems
Three of the principal chemical structures in living substance and forms
are those of proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, but ions, radicals
and solvent structures are other sets of chemical structures
which are charge bearing and are charge motion pattern systems.
Proteins provide charge motion patterns, especially in their role
as structural members in biological forms and substances,
but proteins also are enzymes and provide charge motion patterns as such.
Lipids provide charge motion patterns in their role in membranes,
but also in their function as principal components in Myelination.
The helical pattern of DNA and the rings in ribonucleic acids
provide natural coil-like charge motion patterns.
The Energy-Motion Relationship
The motion of any charge correlates with a magnetic field.
The frequency and accordingly, the energy of the magnetic flux follows
from the change in direction or rate of motion of the charge.
Myelination
One neuronal structure which affects the rate of motion of a charge,
yielding constantly changing rates of motion, is the myelinated axon.
Myelination occurs in intervals of one cell’s width.
This produces breaks in the Myelination.
The breaks are called the nodes of Ranvier.
The conduction velocity of the neuronal signal is faster
in the myelinated zone than in the unsheathed axon.
This makes the axon signal speed up and slow down
all along the length of a projected neuron (one with a long axon).
This allows a mutual inductance between adjacent axons.
Because many axons project in bundles, tracts or “nerves”,
the interaction of mutual induction is extensive and common.
It makes the geometry of the tract or “nerve” significant.
It makes the interactional node position also significant.
Some axons are even sheathed in clusters by a single myelinated cell.
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