A possible violation of the Law of Conservation of Energy

[ayeaye]

The magnet on the disc moves towards the bar magnet and then stays there. No, this is not what we have been talking about. The fields there may be asymmetric, but this asymmetry is not used for overunity. What happens there is completely symmetric.

[Zetetic]

ayeaye,


Well, I guess I really do need to slow down and ask more questions.

In the drawing below a body is able to move horizontally.  In the one case there is more magnetic pull on the left side than on the right.  The magnetic body will move to the left.  And I the other case there is more gravitational pull (more mass) on the left side than on the right.  The body will move to the left.

Yes?  No?

What am I missing?


Thanks,


- Zet

[ayeaye]

This is not an analogy of the gravitational field, because the magnetic field and gravitational field are different. I showed the gravitational field example just as one example of an asymmetric field, and showed that asymmetric field can provide overunity because of asymmetry. But the interaction with the field happens the way that field works.

[Zetetic]

ayeaye,


Will the skateboarder in the lower half of the drawing in Reply #26 move to the left?  Will he horizontally move towards the greater gravitational field?

If yes, then ...

Why would the same dynamic not also slow down the weight on the wheel in the second drawing in Reply #21 as it moves away from the greater gravitational field and into the lesser gravitational field?


Or, am I having ... yet another ... brain cloud?


Thanks and cheers!


- Zet

[ayeaye]

Horizontal movement in the gravitational field slows down only because of friction.