Is this "motor" a joke?

[gauschor]

Don't know if the experimentor is serious about this, or if it's just a motor hidden under the table. Otherwise it makes no sense... I mean it needs quite some power to rotate the mass of 2 little magnets at least.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LID3S-Z34QE

[Cherryman]

Hi,


I tried it ,


There is defenitly a force strong enough to turn the magnets.


But... So far is seems like a compass magnifier. It will turn in one position, approx North.


Funny is that no matter how I arrange the (different) batteries, the direction stays the same. But then when I turn the table, it will not move.


I could not get it to spinn, but there is a force.


Interesting.


Parameters I used:


- Two small neo's as in footage.
- Un-insulated iron wire rolled up
- 8 AA

[MileHigh]

Some people steal women's underwear from clotheslines, other people make fake magnet motor clips.  It's just a statistical reality.

[wildgoose69]

Ii suppose it changes direction when you put the batteries on their heads! Haha. Maybe it's a radionic motor! Come on guys...

[gauschor]

Well I was not sure, it could have been something like a homopolar generator (which do work). There weren't any visible contacts though, which made it irritating; except the 8 batteries can create some "potential" within the circle causing electric energy to flow within the circular wire and thereby causing Lorentz force, which as a consequence, could rotate the device.