Physics Monkey
Do I have to have a graduate degree in physics in order to be allowed to maintain that a DC loop current contains at least 2 opposing parallel currents? And do I have to have such a degree in order to maintain that, therefore, two DC loop currents contain, altogether, at least 4 opposing parallel currents? And do I have to have a graduate degree in physics in order say that if two wired DC loop currents are mounted near each other on pivots, the orientation the two wired DC loop currents will take will be such as to reduce, altogether between them, the number of opposing parallel currents, and increase the number of same direction parallel currents?
If I am correct in my assertions so far, is there any reason why I can't call those reactive motions, only the reactions of wired DC parallel currents, without ever mentioning the word magnetism, or magnetic lines of force.
The fact that one of the DC loops, powered alone, could point to the earth's north "magnetic" pole, which pole is itself only a secondary, illusory, consequence of an earth size DC loop current reacting with the DC loop current mounted on the pivot, seems to me to be irrelevant. It is only the parallel components of the loop currents which are relevant, in my estimation. I see no reason to keep track of the "north-south" axis of a loop current (except as a nickname) unless one is building a navigation device which will depend on that world size DC loop current.
We are talking only junior high-school electricity here, not any of the higher, esoteric, concepts of physics.
Fairfield