Howard Johnson linear track accelerator video

[jimcreeper]

Just a heads up about that cage Howard Johnson uses. I am not for sure about this mind you, the gate in that video was different.

In the Howard Johnson video of his home right before he passed on, he shows the a magnet gate/track made like his late patent 5402021 working. Howard pulls a board down from from underneath the gate/track and there is some large array of magnets down there, which are NOT in the patent. Also looking at that video (which was Howard Johnson Magnet Exchange from Tom Beadons series) and the magnets under that propulsion gate, reminds me of the pictures in the Science magazine, with the glass table, and the track. Which seem to me to be those [ shaped magnets again in a slight curve.

Anyways, anyone researching Howards stuff, might want to know about that video and those underneath magnets.   


Also on the circlular rubber magnet for the his earlier gate, is suppose to be poles on the ID and OD of the ring. Most ring magnet you order will not be poled right. Also for that gate I suggest looking at Howards Spintronics book

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34317/Spintronics-The-Secret-World-of-Magnets-2006-by-Howard-Johnson?autodown=pdf

Cause is shows how he dampens repelling spins using the bar and rubber magnets.

I think learning about the spins is what Johnson was about really. Leedskin from coral castle suggested the same spiraling effect as well. Johnson explains it better and shows actuall evidence of work being done.

J.

[gauschor]

By all honor to Howard Johnson and with not trying to lie to myself or people trying to replicate it: when I watch this video (have seen it before already), it is visible that the speed of the wagon gets slower and slower in the end. It makes a faster push in the so called "magnetic gate", but in fact this video proves nothing at all.
It would prove something if he would show more magnetic gates in sequence and the wagon would cross these without any problem, getting a new acceleration each time. But this is not the case. There is no real acceleration but only the first push forced by the gate only. The difficult thing is to cross this threshold a second time. Also you see the gate also has a backward push if you don't start the wagon at the correct place. To overcome this threshold you need enough force. The wagon on the end of this linear track has certainly not enough power to cross it a second time.

By my own experimentation (although not the same and no magnetic gate) I found out that it is possible with an assembly I tried from of Howards skethces with a bent magnet it crosses lots of the same or opposite poles without stopping - still it loses power in the end and eventually comes to a halt 

                ____
   ===>     /      \          ====>
              S       N

S   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N

(first S used as starting push).