Posted on 01/31/2024 8:18:58 AM PST by Red Badger
Yep.. :)
At about the 2 min mark in the video you posted, there is a brief description of both magnets' pole orientations. Both the attraction magnet and levitating magnet begin with their north poles perpendicular to the axis of rotation. So, perhaps as long the levitating magnet has rotational balance, the shape of the magnet doesn't matter?
The video posted is excellent and the presenters do a good job of describing this.
Thanks, and the OP, for posting! Very interesting!!
So that is why “flying saucers” always seem to be spinning??
That would be cool to try
Interesting. Negating inertia would seem to eliminate G-forces. I always wondered about the “Hyper-drive” travel in Star Wars. Obviously all inertia would have to be removed.
Kecksburg probably as well.
Unsolved Mysteries had a segment on it.
Now we know why all those flying saucers are spinning at the outer edge.
Kosmos 96?
Except when I fall. Then I am very much anti-gravity.
My UFO design would be a very powerful but small magnet spinning above the main portion of the saucer craft. The saucer section would also spin according to the experiment, consequently an inner module would have to have the same set up with a spinning magnet but it is timed to exactly counter act the spin of the upper magnet.
Hopefully you can angle the main magnet to provide lift and directional capability. Or it may take 6 more lifting magnets that are orthogonal to each other to provide direction.
My physics is probably complete malarchy but something like this may work someday.
Science cannot define ‘gravity.
Science cannot define ‘magnetism’.
Science cannot define a ‘woman’.........................
They been making these things for years but when they start the up they go ping ponging about the universe, they haven't perfected the off switch yet.
LAte to the game
Spindizzy:
In its day, one of the best-loved items of sf Terminology. The spindizzy is the Antigravity Invention used to drive flying Cities through the Galaxy at Faster-than-Light speeds in James Blish’s Okie series. This was collected as Cities in Flight (omni 1970), though Blish was using the term as early as 1950 – notably in “Bindlestiff” (December 1950 Astounding), incorporated into the first-published Okie novel Earthman, Come Home (April 1950-November 1953 var mags; fixup 1955; cut 1958). He gave the spindizzy a wonderfully plausible Imaginary-Science rationale, rooted in theoretical Physics, in which Gravity fields are seen as generated or cancelled by rotation owing to the “Blackett-Dirac effect”. The term “spindizzy” dates from the late 1930s as a nickname for the hand-built model racing cars or “tether cars”, a US fad of that era, which raced one another in grooved tracks or solo – against the clock – while tethered to and circling a central pole. Blish presumably had these in mind when he wrote in the prologue of Earthman, Come Home that the Dillon-Wagoner gravitron polarity generator (the Invention’s official name) was “almost immediately dubbed the ‘spindizzy’ in honour of what it did to electron rotation”.
Authors who have adopted the term for their own sf include J F Bone in The Lani People (1962) and Confederation Matador (1978), and Ken MacLeod – with due credit to Blish – in The Execution Channel (2007). Poul Anderson’s “gyrogravitics” gravity-control Technology in Tales of the Flying Mountains (April 1963-September 1965 Analog as by Winston P Sanders; fixup 1970) suggests a nod to the spindizzy.
(https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/spindizzy#:~:text=The%20spindizzy%20is%20the%20Antigravity,James%20Blish%27s%20Okie%20series.)
I’ve been there and it’s pretty amazing
Here it Kommt!
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