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  • @wbeaty can you do a how to on this

  • u r a smart guy good for u...i need u to forget about solid magnets....i need u to spin ferro fluid at these high speeds..i wonder what will happen if u achieve the exact rpm...also incase your project in a vacum....u wont need as high of speed....to this day no one has explained why the mag field changes in vacum

  • this is not new science lol..was invented in 1983 ....its called a levitron look it up lol..o ya u have looked it up.......i myself made what u have 15 years ago...now theres easyer methods than this

  • impressive!! whats the total cost of this project?

  • Now is this Electro Dynamic Suspension?

  • ...that was anti-climactic

    cool device though!

  • this has to be one of the safest things I have ever seen.

  • Nobody likes me :'(

  • @Zod011 I just dislike your comment just for trolling u.

  • how do magnets work.

  • @Zezimacall fuckin' miracles

  • do u have any science fair project fro like an 8th grader that can let me win

  • @GeminiGurlX3 or get a great grade

  • wonder what will happen when they broke on maximum speed...

  • interesting,  nice shop you have, you would be a fun guy, to hang around with, " electronic wise "

  • where do you get these motors?

  • @fairyheli2 for full info, click on the link to project page, magroll html. It was Dayton motor from Grainger catalog, search on universal AC/DC motor, 1/15 horsepower 5000 rpm

  • The magnet down the center of the tube would be a more interesting experiment!!!

  • Why don't you use a Microchip to get the desired frequency....? A 555 or a Microcontroller could do miracles for this project....

  • "Obitch- Obisbo."

  • NOW IGOR DO IT NOW :D

  • You said if you were to suspend it from the bottom that you have a thought that the magnet would remain in a suspended state. Do you feel this way because when you are pulling directly away from the spinning cylinders/tubes there is an attractive force wanting it to stay in the center?

  • I don't see how this is dangerous. The biggest danger I can see is the motor spinning too fast and burning out or insulation melting and the whole thing shorts.

  • @Youcansuckme69 Yes, counter-rotating metal cylinders forming a pinch point, and spinning at about 24 miles per hour. Nothing could possibly fly apart or grab fingers/hair/loose clothing, or fail violently. This is ultrasafe.

  • i feel way more dum after reading the comments :S

  • big deal.  That machine sucks

  • I don't know much about this sort of thing, but hypothetically speaking, if we places two of these together, one above the other and accelerated a metal object through them, would the object accelerate to high speeds? LIke a rail gun? I just thought since it's levatating it'd have reduced friction and get a lot of acceleration.

  • Magnetism is slower than the passage of time and therefore can be effected by the rate of the effect, E=MC2. I wonder how gravity is effected?

  • ...so many smart words o.o" I just watched to see something blow up

  • @littlemissluluable up to my shOULDERRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRG!  spletch.

  • Also, I assume 23mph is the key not the RPM, so larger pipes would work at slower rpm. Can spinning magnets suspend copper?

  • @bastian74 Yep, in theory I think thicker pipes could spin slower for same lift.

    Can't just be spinning magnets, copper must see AC fields. Cover a spinning cylinder with a checkerboard of NSNS pole array? Large pole diameters for high lift.  Or a radial rosette of spinning wheels with NSNS magnets on the rims, place hollow copper sphere in the center.

  • How about solid copper pipes instead?

  • @bastian At 3000rpm that would make a big improvement. But at 6000rpm, the 1/4" wall thickness should shield the inner portions, so the magnetic field never gets that deep.

    If this ran at much higher RPM, a thinner tube would work fine.

  • @bastian At 3000rpm that should make a big improvement. But at 6000rpm, the 1/4" wall thickness should shield the inner portions of the metal, so the magnetic field never gets that deep.

    If this ran at much higher RPM, a thinner pipe would work just as well as a thick one.

    It might be interesting to somehow stick a magnetometer in the hollow part. At a certain RPM, almost no magnetic field would get through. Thick copper always is an AC shield, but spinning copper is a DC shield.

  • @wbeaty hey i could be wrong!, it just didnt make sense to me ... point taken! thanks :)

  • If you tell me how to make one i can invent something amazing and give you credit :)

    The idea i have would make you a millionare!

  • @durges031 click on the link, see info on main website

  • @durges031 what is your ideea?

  • very nice work!

  • commercial use of magnet is increasing (e.g. maglev train)... question: what potential health problems maybe associated with high level exposure to magnetic emissions or whatever emissions it may be called (if there is one)... just imagine passengers in a maglev train sitting for an hour and being exposed to high level of magnetic emissions...

  • @bmgcomp "magnetic emissions" (as far as i know) don't exist because magnets don't actually create anything. i guess if you were using a powerful enough electromagnet the electricity could ionize the air which is known to cause lung complications

  • At any rate, my intent wasn't to be combative or to minimize the danger. Like you said, it has the potential to do a lot of damage, very quickly. I recently helped my son build a very elaborate catapult for his 11th grade AP physics class and we had to take many measurements like torque, velocity, acceleration (at given intervals) and so on. The amount of damage it would do was extensively quantified, so these things were still fresh in my mind when I saw your (excellent) video. Cheers.

  • It would actually be a fantastic demonstration for an industrial design, or physics class to spin it up to full speed, and then jam a ballistics gelatin hand and arm (like Mythbusters make) in there to see just how much it would grab and munch. I did several experiments of this type when I was in college in a elective class I took on industrial design. It was very interesting to see what kinds of energy and mass combinations were the most powerful (and dangerous) in a given configuration.

  • No doubt it's dangerous and it *would* damage your hand! However, it wouldn't suck your arm to the shoulder, it probably wouldn't get your whole hand. The system isn't very powerful. If you put your fingers between the tubes (with it off) and then turned it on, it probably would burn out the motor or the belt would slip before it could pull your fingers through. The power is in the momentum and that would be drained very quickly. And, there isn't enough space under the tubes for an arm to go.

  • 24 mph is pretty fuckin fast for a tube with such a small diameter

  • You are so interesting to watch.

    I have a serious question, are you genius? Or do you at least have a higher-than-average IQ?

  • @ahartt92 Nope, if you want to be a "genius," become a religious mystic and learn to tap your subconscious. "Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way" Avoid normal thinking processes (don't compete for grades or high standing, do something different than all others.) Be like F. Kekule, S. Ramanujan, O. Loewi, H. Poincaré and work on tough problems, then let complete answers suddenly appear in dreams. Find my other vid about how to have ideas.

  • @wbeaty YES! I don't believe in the school system and i have found temporary inner piece at at 13 :D Temporary because i actually believe i feel what ghandi felt for moments. But since im 13 it can only be 13 until i become of age to the point to be a wise old man. I am very smart too and do not believe in physical work, mental helps people have greater memories as i have a very good memory. I get my ideas from dreams too :-)

  • It is very refreshing to know that someone understands the principles of their invention.

  • Wow, very impressive!

  • eat..arm..shoulder? oh come on...you're pulling our collective legs...cool stuff tough

  • ARE THE COPPER RODS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC? EVER NOTICE SYROFOAM PLATES ATTRACT EACH OTHER. DO THE TWO COOPER RODS GENERATE A MAG FIELD? WHAT IS EXPLANATION OF THIS?

  • OHH LOOK. I END UP SEEING YOU(WBEATY) AGAIN AFTER 2 YEARS! I REALLY LIKED YOUR DRY ICE VIDEO LAST TIME!

  • Levitation using magnets isnt hard to make...

    its not special and it doesnt proof anything about ufo's.

  • Amazing. An usually HDD has 120 hz speed. (7200) RPM.

  • amazing, a small magnet can resist the gravity of the whole Earth... truly amazing..

  • 1:33 stay!... damn come back! STAY!... DAMN COME BACK! lol

  • sweet. if you push the rpm past the point where it floats, does the effect disappear? how about using an electromagnet?

  • can mercury float?????

  • thats cool, I'm waiting on your to build a first world Flying Cars that uses magnetic.

  • thats really cool

  • this is a cool video, but i say u take that safety cover off and put some dollar bills in it and watch it suck them through or something, itd be a little off topic but cool!

  • FASTER IGOR!!!!!

  • Is there a way to increase the distance from the magnet from the copper cylinders? if so how?

  • @Narkarina Not really. Make the magnet stronger, or lighter. Do it on the moon with low gravity. This whole thing works by making the magnet see its mirror image in the metal. The magnet is basically lifting itself by repelling its own image, so if it's stronger, it can lift itself higher.

  • @wbeaty Ahh, I see thanks that helps a bunch :3

  • @wbeaty If you make the magnets bigger, the gap increases. I also worked out that it lifts at much lower speeds if the magnet is bigger- you want the magnet to be about one skin depth diameter at the frequency the copper sees.

    So It might work better the other way, take 3 or 4 diametrically polarised 1 inch or bigger magnets and spin them axially and stick a copper or aluminum plate on top. This helps three ways, it should lift higher and the rpm goes down, and so does the surface speed.

  • Future of anti gravity?

  • Use for roadways maybe? There's about 1.7 million views on this video so I'm sure it's been suggested before but that's the first thing that came to my mind. Really cool though!

  • Man you should try get a 10k rpm setup and see if they work again non-magnetic / less magnetic material as well.

  • So this was David Blane uses.

  • no need to be an engineer....

  • Gravity????............It is simple electrical science - it is eddy current levitation.

  • And you just randomly got this idea in an airplane ? O.o

  • @Meldola07 See my other video about how to Have Ideas. The secret of genius. Basically it's like staying up all night and getting loopy, then writing down all your crazy thoughts. BUT, if you've been working on a serious problem for a long time, then your thoughts won't be crazy. Instead, they will deliver the solution. Or instead write down your dreams each morning as you awaken. They won't be crazy.

    I had been trying to find new kinds of science museum exhibits about magnetism

  • @wbeaty you are right all the way! gary hoover and many other not only entrepreneurs, but scientists do it all the time! i assure this is a way to get ideas to flow!

  • @Meldola07 hahahah loooool creativity knows no boundries

  • @Meldola07 When 5mi high in altitude, you're in a radioactive environment, over 100x more intense than normal background radiation. Geiger counters chatter like crazy. Pilots get early-onset cataracts. Does cosmic radiation affect your brain? Experimenters report that x-rays to the skull make you sleepy, and cause a "lost time" effect.

    So, does air travel seem to go by much more quickly than it should, while bus or train travel doesn't? That would be the radiation affecting your neurons.

  • Hmm, I wonder if sudden-onset low-level cosmic ray exposure makes you thirsty. When shuttle astronauts first get to orbit, they might experience some effects which are caused by space radiation. It might be hard to separate these from free-fall effects. But airline travellers get the space radiation without the zero-G.

  • Does it matter which direction you spin the tubes?

  • Interesting . German flying saucer technology involved 2 large metallic disks spinning in opposite direction and that somehow change gravitation . That's why flying saucers are disk shaped .

  • Could something like this magnetize my cat?

  • lol sticks tongue in

  • > lol sticks tongue in

    @ddgg00 probably doesn't work. Tongue too slippery! So first, dry off your tongue with paper towels, then with a blow dryer. Now accost passersby, and force their hands up against your warm dry tongue.

  • dare u to put ur arm in lol XD

  • ' It might eat your arm all the way up to your shoulder...' . lol xD

  • you are now my all time hero, because i now have some idea of how to model japanese bullet trains on my layout

  • This is wicked awesome!

  • igor,with the same principle you made here, is it possible to make a "hover-car" (has rotating cylinders instead of wheels) which goes on magnetic surface at ultra high speed?

  • damn awsum video:)

  • how do u make it

  • this is the best video I've ever scene concerning this field ...

    thanx :)

    so I have one Question, If you Increase the spead of spinning , lets say up to 10,000 or minimize it, did that affect the hight of your magnet ????

    or that depends proportionally on the radius of the Cupper sheet ?

    if you have the answers I'll be thankful to get the answer :)

  • this is the best video I've ever scene concerning this field ...

    thanx :)

  • Don't forget to charge the flux capacitor to 1.21 jigawatts :0

  • ha uhm i am really bored nyone want to chat i have a cam too

  • Thats Lenz's law right there... you wouldn't need to make the copper tubing spin if you had a strong enough magnet because the real explanation is that the magnet is making itself levitate by producing a electrical current into the copper which in return produces a magnetic field that repels the magnet so without the magnet the levitron could not levitate any non magnetic substance

    cheers

    love your work

  • u should get nobel prize ur a genius

  • FASTER IGOR!

  • What would happen if you created an exact replica of that and placed it directly overhead the other one? Then placed a magnet in between them?

  • Hello William,

    Greetings from down under, a belated greeting as I was meaning to, a few years ago, but got sidetracked tackling urgent tasks at hand a number of times.

  • First of all congratulations on your “dangerous maglev” and the huge amount of work you have presented to the public in an effort towards inspiration, keep up the good work.

    I became aware of some of your work in 2006, and in my opinion is some of the best work in this field I have seen, that I also share a tremendous and common interest.

  • @AURUMSOLISTECHNOLOGY Huh, private msg doesn't work.

  • @wbeaty lol listen to him hes useing big words

  • Thanks for your scientific integrity that hopefully will inspire others to remain true to the scientific method.

    I’m not sure if you are aware but I have acknowledged your work at the end of my “method 11.”

    I independently came up with a similar device in 1996; you without any doubt are the first to invent the configuration shown, good work!

    Keep the inspirations coming for the generations to come and towards a better future.

    Cheers JRI

  • @AURUMSOLISTECHNOLOGY Ah, the two-disks version? Jdecker of Keelynet saw that in action at an alt-science conference. Me, I was pursuing a new science museum exhibit, trying to do superconductor levitation without using any superconductors. Besides spinning cylinders, I've wanted to try coaxial pipes, or disk-in-donut-hole. Spin them opposite, then stick supermagnet pucks in the slot between them. That should levitate unmoving magnets in 3 axes, looks exactly like Searl rings.

  • calculations say that if that machine is going that fast the glass and you are shit up the camaras ass

    im not teaching kids that kind of pissing

  • You, my friend, are the reason I have fallen in love with Science.

  • They wanted me build them a bomb, so i took some old parts and made them a shiny bomb casing made of old pinball machine parts

  • epic.

  • I see what you did there

  • Uhmmm, Mr. Wbeaty, I've got a question. If i make a long version of your "fantasticaly dangerous Machanical Maglev and put a rocket on a bigger magnet, is it gonna work?

  • @revyin If the rocket is moving faster than 30MPH, then the pipes won't need to spin. That's how inductive maglev trains were supposed to work: magnets on the train, flying over an aluminum slab.

  • @wbeaty THANKS

  • @mrabuckten These aren't hollow plastic tubes being turned by a little homopolar motor. The angular momentum held by these tubes essentially turns them into small diameter flywheels. A bic pen would probably shatter if put in. Though you're right, it probably wouldn't eat an arm to the shoulder. But it would definitely mangle a hand, throw fingers across the room and generally ruin your day.

  • @k0namiman are you saying i could make this the pen gun from hell? blow a hole in wall with a simple pen and one of these? this would be edge i need in class...

  • would it not be easier to just take one magnet laying north side up, and put another one north side down on top of it?

  • So it would seriously, "eat your arm off," or are you just saying that

  • how much do you want for it

  • lol "faster egor"

  • I just have to say this: You are awsome, and I love you!

  • wow! I knew about the maglev trains but could they use this for roads and make like an automatic car that interacts with it. So then we could get from one place to the other in a futuristic concept? lol I dono if I'm explaining it right

  • fucking magnets how do they work?

  • can we use this in the railroads? yeah. more bullet trains :))))

  • please sell it to the government to make sidewalks of awesomeness!!

  • @randomcam11234 i wouldn't want such a sidewalk. Imagine the consequences of tripping over and falling.

  • what is your job becuase your really smart man

  • @mrabuckten Wanna try?

  • if anyday you discover how to make a hover board send one free to me pliz xB -shot

  • Just buy some fu*kin invisibe thread for 15 bucks

  • @ralphwiggum14 The spinning cylinders create a magnetic field, which acts with magnetic ball's magnetic field. Those fields are interacting with each other. This process causes the ball to keep levitating.

  • dude O.O ur smart

  • faster egor xDDD

  • Cool science. Magnets are a powerful thing. If you ran the tubes in reverse there would be less danger of degloving. Thanks for the video

  • @MandalayWind no there wouldn't. there would then be two spots on both sides of the bottom that could suck you up...

  • @martini0209 agreed. i don't think it is safe at all then. lol

  • 1:08 Hold on McFly we're back to fivety's!!

  • Im sure someday they make something great with this magnetic stuff.. I mean some kind of crafts

  • When did you deside to make a safety cover?

  • Who's Igor?

  • eat ur arm off, yah OK i mean those rods are not even a centimeters apart

  • now make it again using a pc disc drive motor :P

  • Hmmm that was pretty cool!

  • What would happen if you do it the other way around, I mean you make a magnet superfice and place two rotating copper cillinder over it, would it make them hover?

  • @sopothetocho Technically it should since the copper cylinders are producing their own magnetic field to repel the magnet, but since the field is produced between the cylinders it would be unstable over a magnet's field.

  • Men you're the future, keep thinking

  • Lets put justin biebers head between them!!!!!!

  • @Djaixifity get a life and stop hating the damn kid

  • thats like a billion rps XD lol jk :P

  • this stuff is awesome.

  • the only reason it wont fall is because its scared as hell it will fall on it

  • It seems that some people's definition of 'danger' is different than other's.

  • I have a pen that levitates like that supermagnet...

  • I have a maglev exactly like yours, but I think it's smaller... I'm not sure, because your camera may be zoomed in when you are recording at them.

  • ok enough talking... make a hoverboard!

  • @123Nikodemus It's mechanical superconductivity, so just cover a sidewalk with high speed rotating copper pipes, then replace wheels with huge freakin NIB magnet blocks. But if the pipes spin crossways, your trip along them will go ub-ub-ubububububub.

  • @wbeaty Damnit i was about to post a comment similar to your response lol

  • @wbeaty Maybe the rotating copper pipes instead of the wheels and the streets cover in magnets? ...I don't know maybe it could work no?

  • @wbeaty Or what you could do is put the copper cylinders on the bottomof the board a few inches or centimeters away from the magnet.

  • @wbeaty Yes, and if you spin them all in the same direction, you'll go weeeeeeeeeeeee, because it would pull you along at fairly high acceleration!

  • @wbeaty Think about it the other way around. Put the rotating tubes on the device being levitated.  put the magnets on the sidewalk.

  • @123Nikodemus they hide little "Mind Freak" fellas inside them... simple as that.. I just gave the entire meaning of magnetism in just 7 words.

  • @123Nikodemus please dont kickflip.

  • maglev uses spinning copper cilinders?

    i don't think so... (I rly don't think so... not sure though)

    if so, would be an awesome place to steal tonnes of copper =]

  • That sounds like a chainsaw. I bet it could grind up a house. Yeah, its probably some kind of WMD.

    Do you think these will be used on a larger scale someday to make levetating subways or something?

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  • it was amazing hearing the copper cylinders fire up.

  • what would happen on 12000 rpm ?

  • is there any posible way to make it less noisy because i would atach a magnet to my pen and in class it would levitate!

  • @mrabuckten good luck with that.