Roll on the 20th June

[Rusty_Springs]

Hi X00
Two things theres a magnetic attraction before your rod is even in place so ofcause the rod would have to come in closer once that magnetic attraction is taken away and second as was pointed out it takes alot of force to switch it on and off.
Take Care X00
Graham

[The Eskimo Quinn]

[kitefreak]

I bet you believe that the only steel structure building in history to collapse due to metal fatigue from fire can cause one of the tallest buildings (well, 2 actually) on the earth to fall into it's own footprint as well.

.......and that a falling chunk of it could completely flatten another building near it (just happening to have all the SEC evidence in it).

Right on Exx. Three buildings, at free-fall speed, into their own footprints. The free-fall speed bit defies the laws of physics. The official, "one floor fell onto the next, causing it to collapse, and so on" explanation might stand up if it - the collapse - didn't happen at (just about) free-fall speed. Energy would have to be used and absorbed at each and every floor, slowing the collapse way below free-fall speed. And certainly there would have been no energy left over to pulverise all the debris into fine dust. Perhaps PP could explain this one for us. I really would like to see him try (without mentioning 'conspiracy theories'). Really, just on the facts of the collapse.

Anyway, I spent one hundred British pounds on neo's and steel, chrome plated balls. What a mug, eh?. I wanted to make a simple over-unity toy based on Archer's over the hill and down the other side and through the wall video. See Archer, not everybody forgot about it...

The track magnets are a mix of 5mm x 30mm and 5mm x 20mm rod magnets. I've joined three 30mm magnets and four 20mm magnets and alternated them along the track, at an average distance of 10mm apart. I bought circular disc magnets, all 10mm thick - 4x20mm and 2x25mm diameters.

I bought 4 steel balls - 2x25mm and 2x30mm diameter. I find the two 25mm magnets on the 30mm balls work best.

It goes uphill and needs to go a lesser incline downhill to break free of the wall than it went uphill, hopefully leaving enough energy to get around to the start again, using some kind of low friction conduit like curved guttering.

I have a 35cm Mayernick array carrying two 30mm  steel balls up a hill. When I roll the traveller down the same magnetic arrangement it breaks free of the track at a lesser incline than carried it up (after I adjust the incline). So we have a little 'left over' energy, no? So say we make the up slope 10 times longer then the down slope. Then we have even more energy to play with, don't we?  One tenth the vertical distance of the up slope to break the wall versus the nine tenths 'generated' by the shunt up the hill? Surely a way can be found to get the traveller back around to the start.

If success in this endeavour is worth one hundred US grand I'll give it a go. And I'll give half of it to Archer if I make it. Not that money is my motivation at all. Far from it.

Anyway, if I had, say, a 30 meter track raising the height of the traveller to, whatever height, do you not think there's a way to get the traveller to fall using gravity and it's own weight, to the start point?

Or, even if we do, will we get the 'magnets are fuel' argument. Which brings me to a point: if the people with the money to meet the challenge (of PM) are challenged they can say "Oh, it's meant to be perpetual motion, like forever". So, I'll never get the money then, will I? Will  I have to wait, 'in perpuity' , for the prize money? Easy to make empty promises, isn't it?

Really though, If I showed you a video of it running around the track for three days, would that be enough to get the prize? Would it have to be three months? Where do you draw the line, anyone?

P.S. I will post a video soon. I think they are what count, rather then trotting out maths and formulae.And if you are going to trot them out then do, please, use them to explain the free-fall-speed collapse of the three towers on 9/11. If physical laws apply then they had to have applied on 9/11. Can't have it both ways.

[gwhy!]

yes you have a magnet that is the same as one of mine, wow you litle inventor you, oh and you have mags side by side wonderful, just like in a motor, but polarity spacing and having the correct power levels between the track and the driver are what makes a mayernik array,

Bloody hell Archer YES or NO is the configuration the same i.e south down one edge north down the other??.
I'm no more a inventor than you are Archer.
So let assume NO , would I be able to repoduce "your" never seen before ( history in the making ) (  ) up/over and out  demo with my belt ?

[The Eskimo Quinn]

Good video on the gate key, you need a piece of steel from the rear to the other piece of steel with the magnet so you are not making contact or close sweep to a magnet with an auto pass or you will get attraction directly to the magnet.