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Originally Posted by adam ant
just follow the pictures "spin arrows"
draw a line from the north to the south, along the y axis.
there is something in this techology that is not sitting right with me though... let me think on it for a while. if you look at the machine taking these "photos" there is a steel or aluminum housing surrounding the magnet. i think it is causing an "squashed" appearance to the magnetic field.
do you see where the gold arc goes right through the labelled "s" at the top, and the "n" at the bottom? this should extend out farther than the ends of the magnets. it is a bit perculiar. also, the torroidal (zero point spin disk as they call it) should be slightly wider.
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I see what you mean now, sorry I'm left handed so sometimes what other people consider obvious it escapes me, and vice versa.
You are right about possible distortions, but it might be that it's shot on an angle as well and that's why we are seeing this kind of curvature.
Since that SPM is two pieces of glass sandwiching a thin layer of nano-particles, it is possible that the steel or aluminium ring housing the assembly is causing the distortion.
If true that's a pretty bad oversight on the manufacturer part and lack of full R&D and QE. They could've used ceramics or some plastic or anything but metal...