Roll on the 20th June

[spinner]

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If it is of appreciably more force, the metal ball would not succumb to the magnetic attraction, but I bet both it's direction and velocity would suffer for the cost of escaping magnetic attraction drag.

I have to throw my opinion in as being directly opposite of Rusty's as depending on where the metal ball enters the mag field, it will have a direct relation as to whether ball velocity is added or taken away from the speed of magnetic attraction.

Unpolarised Ferromagnetic materials (iron, etc) are always attracted to a permanent magnet (or vice-versa), so there's always a pull force between them.
Maybe you meant when the ball is approaching or leaving a magnetic field (a situation when the ball has rather high starting KE)?

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JUst leaving and saw that thought i had better jump in and save the newbies from false remarks

i just had to comment .. after reading your last scribbles on your webpage.
http://surphzup.com

Just an fyi AQ and you REALLY can trust me on this one .. Steorn doesn't care or feel threatened about you in any way shape or form. And not to get personal or mean or anything but most of the people(200 +) in the SPDC ( steorn private developers club ) think your claims are just completely ludicrous and they know and understand more about magnetics than any group on this planet. 

Orbo is alive and well .. btw.

As per your video .. it was a disappointment to me personally, i was expecting to see at least a working wheel that was conclusive and it does (to me ) look like you gave it a bit of push energy that possibly accounts for the extra turn rotations .. check my videos ( number two i think ) at one point i inadvertently  gave it a bit of extra energy in start off too and the wheel made an extra turn before it stopped - just like yours ...Mine is not OU/FE but i know it .. 
i spent more than a 100 hours doing drop tests with my wheel and spent several hundred dollars on magnets and tools to test your theories. i will still be trying out your last wheel config in the near future ( soon if you release the plans as you said ) and might even make a video or two if i find something worth reporting.

i look forward to your next attempts and the release of your plans .. at least then some of the replicators here will be able to verify and test what you have shown. i really do hope you will find  and show us OU.
If you promised the missus to stay away from this for a while .. thats a promise you can and should keep Dude :-)

Hope to hear from you again in the future ..
Take care

BTW .. even if you showed us a working wheel that self perpetuates .. before it could be said that it was OU .. tests would have to confirm that the magnets in the array were not weakening as a result of spinning the wheel.
i will write more about this aspect later .. but now i have to go to work ..

C ya
 

[exxcomm0n]

Unpolarised Ferromagnetic materials (iron, etc) are always attracted to a permanent magnet (or vice-versa), so there's always a pull force between them.
Maybe you meant when the ball is approaching or leaving a magnetic field (a situation when the ball has rather high starting KE)?

tomAto/tomato (inferring 2 ways to say the same thing)

I misappropriate physics terms alla time, you should know that by now.

Didn't seem to stop you getting the aim of the statement though (which is GOOD!).

See my prior post in regards to my appreciation of accepted science and terminology of the day.

[Bobbotov]

Orbo is alive and well .. btw.

As per your video .. it was a disappointment to me personally, i was expecting to see at least a working wheel that was conclusive and it does (to me ) look like you gave it a bit of push energy that possibly accounts for the extra turn rotations ..

Interesting how you can say Orbo is alive and well and at the same time say you are disappointed in Archer's video considering the ONLY public display of Orbo last year was a complete failure.

[Mr. M]

Thanks gWhy!, Rusty, Spinner and Exx for the posts regarding my query.

Orbo is alive and well .. btw.

Christ... If ever there was a 'WTFROFL' moment, that's it right there.   

I'll give Steorn and Sean their dues though, they promised a demo at Kinetica to show the world what the Orbo was capable of and they did deliver.