Magic Gravity Wheel (Order out of Chaos)

[gravityblock]

Each number on the wheel represents a ball with a specific weight.  You choose what the unit of weight will be.  This wheel should rotate CW due to gravity and momentum.  I can prove to you that this wheel is unbalanced.  I can also prove to you that it is balanced.  There is mathematics and a pattern to the numbers in order to achieve this.  It's similar to an Archimedes spiral.  Order out of chaos.

GB

[Alexioco]

So the wheel is supposed to keep turning due to just the position of the weights alone? I couldn't imagine how that would work but it would be a powerful and fast wheel lol

Alex

[gravityblock]

So the wheel is supposed to keep turning due to just the position of the weights alone? I couldn't imagine how that would work but it would be a powerful and fast wheel lol

Alex

It was designed to be a momentum wheel like you suggested.  I thought at first the momentum of it may overcome gravity, but I highly doubt this would be the case.  The purpose of posting it here was to inspire the idea so it could be modified into a gravity wheel somehow along with other ideas.  I believe the #5 and #9 weights need to be swapped though. Using both sides of the wheel with a different pattern may have potential.  The system is static as is, and probably needs to be made dynamic before it has potential as a gravity wheel.

It was based on a Magic Heterosquare, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosquare

Also there are Magic squares, Anti-magic squares, Magic circles, etc.  Here's a link to wikipedia on the different variations of this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Magic_squares

GB

[gravityblock]

Here's two videos of angular momentum defying gravity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545GwnupKAE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P014jvaB3ic&feature=fvw

Don't under-estimate the force of angular momentum.

GB

[Cloxxki]

Here's two videos of angular momentum defying gravity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545GwnupKAE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P014jvaB3ic&feature=fvw

Don't under-estimate the force of angular momentum.

GB

Fascinating approach to a wheel!

On that offset wheel effect in the video. As a cyclist and mechanice, I'm all to familiar with the efect.
I've always regarded that as inertia offering resistance (dampening really) to a present force. Force happens to be gravity. Gravity always wins. Speeding up the wheel will increase the dampening effect, but never raise the wheel back up, or does it? And even if it does, how does additional input compare to lift generated?