Timeline for Can a spheromak propagate in vacuum?

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Oct 30, 2017 at 11:45	vote	accept	Steven Mathey
Oct 29, 2017 at 1:36	answer	added	hmode		timeline score: 2
Feb 5, 2016 at 13:50	history	edited	Steven Mathey		added tag
Nov 26, 2015 at 10:10	history	edited	Steven Mathey	CC BY-SA 3.0	I remonved one sentence in the second paragraph.
Nov 23, 2015 at 16:07	history	edited	Steven Mathey		Added tags
Nov 19, 2015 at 13:54	comment	added	honeste_vivere		No, it appears that spheromaks may be a real phenomena. If so, they are distinctly different, I think. I was only commenting that we do observe distributions of particles in a slightly similar geometry.
Nov 19, 2015 at 13:36	comment	added	Steven Mathey		@honeste_vivere So am I using the wrong terminology? Should I edit my question to replace 'spheromak' by 'ring-beam velocity distribution'?
Nov 19, 2015 at 13:04	comment	added	honeste_vivere		So, you would not be able to do this by introducing such a configuration into a pure vacuum. The particle would quickly spread out diffusively. In a real plasma, like in space, we observe things kind of like these spheromak thingys, but not the same at all. What we observe are called ring-beam velocity distributions. Think of a doughnut-shaped clump of charged particles drifting along the background magnetic field (i.e., the center of the ring moves parallel to $\mathbf{B}$).
Nov 18, 2015 at 20:27	history	asked	Steven Mathey	CC BY-SA 3.0