EMS 1 is the brainchild of Westinghouse Mechanical Engineer Stewart Way, a specialist in magnetohydrodynamics.
Avco started its study of magnetohydrodynamics (the behavior of "plasmas" of ionized particles) to help make better nose cones for long-range missiles.
To explain the solar system, Alfven says, other scientists have used plain old hydrodynamics (the behavior of fluids, including gases); if magnetohydrodynamics (the behavior of .