Gaussian Gun Theory - need input.

[nwman]

So I have been looking at some of these gaussian gun videos on youtube and have given then a quick thought of how they work and is there a way to loop this action? I know there probably isn't however I did have an idea that I need help disproving. Really I should just go out and buy the materials and test it but that's take time and money I don't want to spend.

Moving on, here is a link that explains how these work;
http://www.coolmagnetman.com/maglnch.htm

Here are a few videos of them in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZmCJ5eZlmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7CyPtF0ChA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxkZaYYSHFs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Hj8NOk1I4

So the idea is instead of having the ball hit the bear side of the magnet to launch the ball on the other side you would have the ball travel through the magnet and hit the first ball on the other side . So now you may ask how do you think your going to make the ball travel through the magnet? Well, put a hole in it! What if instead of a solid magnet you had a ring magnet with a track running through it. This way the first "firing ball" would make direct contact with the first ball and the line and balls. This would give the ability for the firing ball to move to the launching side thus resetting the configuration. This is the part I haven't had enough experimentation with to predict what would happen. Of course the idea is to have the now launched ball return to the firing side and start the reaction over again and create a loop.

Ok, now here are the issues that I need help with. How would the row of ball configure themselves to the ring magnet? Would the line up on one side(pole) or would they try to balance in between the ring magnet show in the picture below?

[nwman]

It would be ideal if they wanted to only stay on one side. This would make it easy. The firing ball would be attracted to the ball in the middle of the ring and make contact launching the ball on the far right. Then if the forces wanted to keep the ball on one side it "should?" pull the firing ball into the center of the ring magnet closing the loop. This would be too easy though so it can't be the case.

Now if the balls wanted to balance between the pole this makes a neutral state which wouldn't allow the ball on the right to me launched. How I see possibly over coming this is by angling the track so that gravity comes into play (I thought I might as well add it to the equation). Now, I would think this would make the row of ball shift to the down side of the magnet which would create a potential opretunity for the gun affect to occur. The angle may even need to approach vertical to make the balls shift all the way to the other side. This would also cause a problem of having to lift the launched ball vertically back up to a high enough position to start over again. From the videos it seams like there would be enough power but that is just an assumption. Now that the far right one has left it whole row would theoretical want to hang lower thus pulling the firing ball into the center position of the ring.

[nwman]

Now there are things I probably over looked and or am assuming incorrectly so please point them out if they matter. This is just a problem I couldn't visualize in my head. I haven't played with metals inside of a ring magnet before. Also I don't think we need to talk about any why of pulling power off of it. My main endeavor is to make something that just runs continuously.

Tim

[nwman]

One more questions would be is if all the balls in the row would have to be on one side or if as long as there are more on the launching side then the firing side it would still retain the gun shot ability. This would be due to the fact that the point of firing impact would be greater force (attraction) then the forces holding the ball on the far right.

Tim

[Schpankme]

... Gaussian gun videos ... how they work

nwman,

One only needs the magnet and two steel balls to get the same effect.  This is the same concept described and used in the Muller Dynamo.

"Steel on Steel makes a frequency and that frequency pushed the Steel Ball away from the magnet; the frequency is stronger then the magnet holding force." - Bill Muller

A repulsion frequency (signal) intersecting the two steel balls is created, when sharp contact is made with the magnetic flux. (see pic)

- Schpankme