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Originally Posted by Dedevil
I'll have to disagree with that one Dell. If this is so then the majority of our streams would be running n-s or s-n. The magnetic effect is fairly constant, an overall effect of the overall direction of particles in the earth. The change you see when a compass goes slightly off track over water is static gravity. I find it best to think of the earth as a multiplate capacitor with the centre as the -ve plate. It all gets confusing when you switch from conventional current to electron flow so i stick to electron flow.
The water moves from hillside stream to ocean via gravity. So what is gravity? Simply it's mass/charge, the more the mass the more the charge, and so although a stream and the oceans are both water the oceans have a bigger charge and therefor the streams with a lesser charge are attracted to the ocean. And there is a type of charge flow happening which is what distorts a compass over a river.
Think of what is a compass? It's a solid piece of metal with it's charges arranged to point in one direction. When placed on the ground it shows the overall direction of all the other substances on earth and when bought near a stream will deflect due to the electrified charges of the stream.
Have you ever tried this one; When divining a river with Lrods, stop where the L rods cross over, then stick one of them into the ground and hold the other out. It will point in the direction that the water is taking ( it's path of least resistance ) to the ocean.
Amazing that the French revolution was started by arguements on this subject.
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The effect is known as little g which is differnt to BIG G