Working Attraction Magnet Motor on Youtube!?

[shruggedatlas]

@shruggedatlas,

Don't show the neck of the tube, this is not where Naudin, I repeat, Naudin, places the ball and lets it go, especially in the actual experiment.

The photos above are from his website and show part of the neck of the tube.

I am running out of other photos to show you.  Here is the beginning of each of his video (the videos themselves are no longer online).  You can clearly see that the SMOT is turned around.  Combined with the side-by-side photo above, I am convinced that this is the way he did it.  What evidence do you have otherwise.  Anything in the text?

Source: http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/smotnrgt.htm

[Omnibus]

@shruggedatlas,

Don't show the neck of the tube, this is not where Naudin, I repeat, Naudin, places the ball and lets it go, especially in the actual experiment.

The photos above are from his website and show part of the neck of the tube.

I am running out of other photos to show you.  Here is the beginning of each of his video (the videos themselves are no longer online).  You can clearly see that the SMOT is turned around.  Combined with the side-by-side photo above, I am convinced that this is the way he did it.  What evidence do you have otherwise.  Anything in the text?

Source: http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/smotnrgt.htm

So what that the SMOT is turned around? The SMOT is turned around exactly to have the ball placed always at the same beginning position,

[Omnibus]

Otherwise he would have had to use two tubes, correct?

[Omnibus]

To be comparable, the ball must be let go from exactly the same spot in the control as well as in the actual experiment, correct?

[shruggedatlas]

Otherwise he would have had to use two tubes, correct?

He uses one tube, and he turns the SMOT around because the tube is harder to reposition than the SMOT.

In the Output drop, he operates the SMOT in the classical fashion, placing the ball first at the Input and having it ascend up the ramp and then drop into the mouth of the tube from the top (the "Output") of the ramp.

In the Input drop, he turns the SMOT around so that ramp entrance faces the tube.  He also moves the magnets farther apart (if he did not, the ball would not drop, but ascend like in the Output drop), and then simply lets the ball drop from the bottom of the ramp into the mouth of the tube.

Would this change your opinion of whether this is a proper test?