SMOT TEST- can someone do this?

[terry1094]

Hans,

That is similar to Jean Louis Naudin's experiment:

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/smotidx.htm

Terry

[nwman]

Terry, I haven't seen that site before. That's interesting. I'll have to look into it.

Hans, I think your idea for a test is a great idea. It would be interesting also to see it.

Tim

[acp]

Hans, looks like it has been done already, the ball seems to roll further with the smot magnets in place.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5D70lqT1ZU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNFS63dZIdc

[nwman]

That is impressive!

Tim

[The Eskimo Quinn]

Sorry Hans but you downhill smot will slow the ball not speed it up, come on people common sense, it is a magnet and a steel ball it's like extra gravity,

proof get a small ball bearing and tape a large magnet under a glass table, now roll the ball bearing across the table, it will grab the ball bearing ans stop it dead, now tilt the table ensuring the magnet is in the same place pro rate as Hans drawing, it will still stop the ball, there will at some point be a time when the tilt or incline is so great the ball breaks free, but the energy of attraction the gives that tiny burst of speed right before it is caught is not equal to the hold power, which would be sufficient to beat the argument, it is even greater, and if it was not greater, the magnetic pull field is a equally strong from the side the ball is trying to leave.

The uphill pull is your best shot if it is to work, with the gravitational drop providing the power to the magnet, although you have to get past the magnetic wall at the top.