Roll on the 20th June

[Mr. M]

quick and short answer... I dont know 

Boooo!     Seriously though, thanks for being honest.   

Yes... This query... It vexes me.

[futuristic]

Ok so Archer has left the building for one moth.... That doesn't mean that we should just lean back and wait for something to happen.

I recommend that we get to the testing of Archers magnetic gate with steel rod and ferrite block. We should also try to replicate BATMANs (IMHO) very successful rail.
I will do some experiments tomorrow and will post the videos. But you guys should also try to test some designs.
Together we can move the world.

BR,
Frenky

[spyblue]

Helloo people !!! I think Newton is laughing out loud of Archer now.. wherever he are, the last Archer video was so funny. 
I?m sure Archer is Newton best friend.

See ya

[Bobbotov]

Absolutely! At the beginning, some of us were trying to point at this "misunderstanding", but to no avail...

Archer sees Newton as a representative of the "past, conservative and corrupt science", which was INTENTIONALLY keeping people in the dark.. You know, they were always telling us that "perpetual motion" is impossible. Yeah, sure.. 


Here's Archer's quote from his site (one of the latest versions...sorry if you've seen it already):
Nice. Even though there was a "previous work" (traceable way back to Antic philosophers and mathematicians), Newton did it first.
No, to be fair - calculus was almost simultaneously "invented" by Isaac Newton and G.W.Leibniz (and there were other great names heading in the same direction)- but Newton was the first in publishing findings... Math symbols, used in calculus, came from Leibniz, not Newton... As a sign of recognition for his contribution.

According to Archer, they were all just - clowns...

Maybe it is just me but I fail to see how pissing on science is a good way of advancing it. Of course, Archer has to prove his bravado and not only overcome the reality of nature but also the history of science at the same time. I would have thought fighting nature was itself a big enough battle.

Personally I doubt that magnets can be used to achieve over unity any more than using springs. Magnetic field flux takes as good as it gives. Perhaps Archer should rename his device the Double-edged sword of God. If OU is possible I suspect it will be at the quantum level. Maybe Archer can do some quantum experiments and find the illusive moron particle.

But I await to be shocked and awed by Mr. Quinn as do we all. Unfortunately, he may not believe in the history of science but I think in the final analysis it is in a lot better shape today than the history of perpetual motion.

[Rusty_Springs]

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one..?


@All

I've got a couple of questions which I want to ask and they aren't intended to trip anyone up or prove anything... I'm curious as to what the correct answers are according to people who do this kind of thing a lot.


First one

Assume I have two perfectly identical metal balls and two identical tables of exactly the same length, any length but let's say it's a few meters. I place the balls at the front of each table and push both of them with enough force to make them reach the very end of the table where they both stop. Given what I know and ignoring the 'chaos' factor both balls will do exactly the same thing.

I place a magnet a few inches from the start of the table which is offset from the path the ball will take enough so that the ball would just miss the magnet by a few millimeters and I perform the same test.  One ball does exactly the same as before and moves all the way to the end of the table but the other one gets caught in the field of the magnet, is attracted and stops.

The question I have is where did the energy in the ball which would have been expended by the ball reaching the end off the table actually go when the ball stops after being attracted to the magnet just after starting the run ?

Hi M
I maybe wrong but I would say all the energy is transformed into heat and wave energy through the collision of the ball and the magnet, I was going to say all the energy is lost but I didn't think that would be the right word to use.
Take Care and maybe an engineer can explain it better M
Graham