Roll on the 20th June

[exxcomm0n]

Back again....thinking about gwhy's suggestion of the 3 free rollers.......and then of the gauss gun (actually it's a really old idea in magnetics.....but never done with permanents yet except on hobby scale).

(@ bullsn Actually I thought I brought the gauss gun idea to the table. )

The deal w/ the gauss gun run is its set up.


  O              XXXXXXO            XXXXXXO       XXXXXXO

O = roller (ball bearing I assume as I can't see this working if it was spherical mag).
XXXXXXX = mag

K then.........

The 1st BB (roller) is attracted to the free end of the 1st mag at an even increasing acceleration until impact, that part we all pretty much know if we've ever handled a mag.

It's what happens as a result of that impact that's the mind boggler, as IT SEEMS the static BB immediately assumes the velocity of the impacting BB and starts the cycle again WITH (perhaps) ALL THE MOMENTUM OF THE 1ST BB!

Now......this is easy to discount as if the mags are not affixed (even though they don't seem to move much, if at all) it's pretty much an executive desktop toy, and mirrors the behavior of a famous one.

But if they (mags) ARE affixed to the track and the behavior persists in the same manner (meaning it still works the same), then that's a whole other ball of wax as it would violate MY understanding of CoE (Ex nihilo nihili or "From nothing comes nothing"...isn't that Spinners sig?) as the amount of energy used to move the 1st BB is obviously multiplied and is able to be used over a vastly greater area (distance) instead of a shorter area.

If it would react the same after anchoring the mags, how would you explain that?

The only way I can see leans heavily on Ol' Ed Leedskalnin again and say that the electron (or lil' magnet) energy of the attraction velocity is doing the same thing as that executive desktop toy mentioned above (You know the one. It has 5 balls in pendulum array. You drop the one on one end the other end goes up and it pendulums).

Electron colliding with electron....... which happens all the time, except this time instead of the electron jostling its way to it's destination from collision with other electrons along the way has a clear path and can avoid collision with other electrons until they reach the other BB where the huge influx of electrons surges in the present conduit and breaks that BB free with all of those electrons already having n velocity and being able to impart a good deal of that velocity to the BB instantaneously (this would be nice to be able to verify w/ high speed photography).

Lemme stew on this one a while as it's twirling my cerebellum right now.



Are mags just atom alignment shops?

[bullsnbears1]

Ahhhhhhhhhh you guys left me in the dust while I was editing.

[bullsnbears1]

(@ bullsn Actually I thought I brought the gauss gun idea to the table. )

Your right, I think. too lazy to look back 1 page.

Where the heck is X000000000000?? He'd better be building something right now. Anyone want to loan me some neos 1/2" x 2"

[The Eskimo Quinn]

On the same topic but different angle i looked at the gauss gun effect the other day, but from a different angle, i thought the only thing is the striker needs to drop off or roll around to the front after hitting, if the entry to the gun was slightly down hill it could roll around to the front after, ready for the moving ball to strike again. how? iso ferrite gauss gun centre, hadnt worked out how to operate it as a switching array other than have two running all the time, and one switching when the other hits.

Just a thought after all anything on a track can sit on the back of a wheel, or drive the back of one.

let me rephrase that - it would have to be isso ferrite with a soft iron centre, otherwise it would get smashed to pieces, it could even have a rubber impact sleeve between them and still work.

(My missus is running late so I have had some extra play time)

[g4macdad]

Name one closed system that exists in nature. If energy is derived from magnetic fields or from gravitational forces it is just potential energy being harnessed. Just like solar or wind energy. Why is this so hard to believe? Queue's comments and stance are suspicious, to say the least.