Flux Pinning and the Bite-Across

Dr. Steven B Halls | December 2025

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2025-12-22 - view original post.

Flux pinning. Interesting coincidence this past weekend, I used Gemini AI to explore whether flux pinning could explain the interlinking of little tori that make up a barrier surface (around tubes and tori). I was complaining that the word "pinning" was a poor analogy. I was wrong.

Flux pinning turns out to be a good name for the interlinking of little tori that build a barrier surface. The bite-across anchors a tube so pulling tension can run along it, and in sailing a bite is friction stopping a rope and a nipper bites ropes on a spindle, which matches neck piercing weapons that pin a reptile. A cross-field scalar outflow can create magnetic pressure for flux gating, and a theta pinch matches a superconducting disk that floats or hangs and holds its tilt.

The "bite-across" symbol, on my previous post seemed to be an anchor, which allows pulling tension to take place along a flux tube, commonly along S shaped curves. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CfduvhEfM/ Gemini found a lot of ancient use in sailing and ropes, "bite" is a friction stopping a rope on a spindle/mandrel, and a "nipper" is external biting device applied onto ropes wound on a spindle to stop them slipping. Anchors bite into the ocean floor.

Then I saw symbolism examples with a bite-across AND a weapon piercing the reptile neck, acting as a visual synonym for the bite-across. So "pinning" may have a historical use of weapons that can pin an opponent to the ground or a tree. These downward spear weapons, like St. George uses, is the high-density flow, and they usually enter the open mouth of a reptile, which is commonly a portal, or at least the open end of a flux tube. I've wondered why does the spear also pierce the neck?

For Flux pinning? I asked Gemini for examples in modern physics where a high-density scalar flow can apply pressure and constrict a regular "B" north outflow of a solenoid or magnet, and many examples using these science words were given. A "cross-field interaction" (at 90 degrees), scalar outflow creates a "magnetic pressure" used for orthogonal "flux gating". Also "scalar pin" is a "theta pinch".

This began with me learning details of "flux pinning" whereby a superconducting disk made of GdBCO can "float" above or even "hang" below a track made of north outflow magnets. In brief, a flux tube's wall is super strong, it can be thinned by surrounding pressure, it can swell inside the flux tube when it's flux contents can no longer flow, and this provides rigidity, such that the floating disk can maintain whatever tilt you apply onto it, while gliding along the track. So yes, flux pinning is a great model to theorize about how tori could become interlinked with a lot of strength. So as of today, these neck piercing weapons on symbol pictograms have a possible meaning.

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