Neodymium Magnet Levitates a Hammer

[MucusFelidae]

Could I hang myself upside down?

[sanddune1981]

Let the Force be with you

[drummaboy2346]

Thatd be a neat way to hold all your tools. Personally, if I got a new friend, and I brought them into my garage, and they saw the floating tools... It'd so be worth it. I can't imagine the reactions. Except I'd figure out a way to hold it without the string... Good video though.

[ItalianBandit]

The force is strong with this one...

[EpicRice2000]

damn. it never occurred to me to tie down one end with a string. not being sarcastic here. that's awesome.

[lucas91634]

that's impressive, but did you see the homeless guy with the golden voice>

[FunForHalo]

So if the camera is upside down, that tub is floating from the cealing????

[YorchMex]

This reminds me Beakman's World!!

[MrStickywicket]

Its pretty funny how this is pretty much like letting things hang off a string and having gravity pull down and tension pulling up, only that the camera is upside-down...it really isn't amazing at all Fb>Fg

[MrNintendolover]

Did any of u even watch the full fucking video? -__-

[JohnnyGiard]

imagine crushing your balls with 2 of those magnets... the pain you would be in...

Well see that on FunnyVideoArchives soon or break.

[convy1995]

Nice string jackass. The paper clip was obvesoly tied to a string so it would not fly up to the magnet above it.

[UtsniatheMightyOne]

@convy1995 fly?

[flagman57]

@convy1995 no duh...

[therealcruz]

@convy1995 He knows idiot

[nomedsdog]

@convy1995 huh? isn't that the point?

[Truocco15]

use fishing line...............

[ipodtester1]

Hey I have the exact same hammer you have. WTF.

[MediaNexus]

@ipodtester1 He stole your hammer while you were not looking.  :P

[bestamerica]

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how about this guy waist watch,,,

will this watch destroy from the powerful magent

[TheJustinkenny]

where did you get those magnets and how much are they

[AirsoftSeattleReveiw]

Except light is composed of photobs, and therefore has mass.

[AcaAllertor127]

There is a huge magnet at Skycraft surplus that will lift a huge bolt attached to a chain. And i mean huge, like as big as your keyboard huge.Its on a chain so it doesent get pulled up so it touches the magnet

[b00rk]

fucking magnets, how do they work

[pikachuthesquirtle]

Gives me a great idea for a backwards too shelf... :D

[shushuriken]

The string is to hold them back or it will be hard to pull it out=.= why not think with your head everything here is done logically if he wan to fake it he would use a almost invisible string =P but thats impossible as string doesnt have much strength o0

[arctyler]

woah thats handy for my garage have tools floating in the air

[xXChibiFoxXx]

you guys are so retarded. the string is to keep the paper clip,wrench,etc from clamping to the magnet. the magnet is freaking powerful.

[L4cH4nC3]

You, sir, are a moron. You are using a string. This is not levitation.

[1337l33ch3r]

@L4cH4nC3 Wow, i wonder how you make a hammer levitate with a string AT THE BOTTOM.

From another MORON.

[dieharddirtbikerida]

i can see the string on the paper clip

[Madflyingdrummerboy]

dude, they're tied down by a string,

[mojo5110]

wow thats handy.

im presuming magentism works in space still plz respond

[theownzer]

@mojo5110 yes they do

[VolkColopatrion]

@mojo5110 yes infact that's why light can't escape black holes , with such a gravitational force comes a really big electromagnetic force. After all, light is energy and doesn't have a mass.

the last time i checked.

[March6371]

@VolkColopatrion - sorry, light has mass - it's been known for sometime now. That's how enormous gravitational forces can affect it ie Blackhole bending light back onto it - gravity lensing bending light around the centres of galaxies, list goes on.

[RedemtionInABox]

is everyone on youtube a know it all? seriously stfu

[7677876]

it would have just pulled the whole thing up had there not been a string, therefore, there is no actual levitation

[slipknot1566]

which is stronger an n42 neo magnet or a n50 magnet if anyone knows please respond to me thanx :)

[mojo5110]

N54

[slipknot1566]

danke or thank you

[rosetylerisafox]

try it with a sledge hammer

[ProjectZro]

wow thats cool but i think i need to de-gauss my screen now

[TheKiwiMaster]

@ProjectZro haha, fuuny :)

[4lifepinoy]

if the hammer had 2 metal ends and one magnet from above and on top i htink it would levitate

[lolio42]

ud have to make it exactly center tho

[foxloveskristal]

no it would shoot out and hit somthing thats how a gauss/coil gun works

[sk8rdman]

probably not because gravity would still drop it to the bottom magnet. It might work if you had them on either side of the hammer, hammer levitating in between the two.

[clerlic]

It would never work, it would be much harder than, for example, trying to balance a smooth bowling ball on a needle.

[sk8rdman]

That's a very good metaphore for this situation. The hammer would have to be in such a precise place. Getting a bowling ball to balence so precisely would be almost equally difficult.

[clerlic]

It would be much harder because the needle is actually flat on microscopic scales, while the point where magnetic and gravitational potential energies are flat is actually an infinitesimal point.

It could be done with some kind of an active feedback system though, but that wouldn't be the same.

[sk8rdman]

You clearly know more about magnets than I.

[clerlic]

It helps me being a physics student.

[TheLongLostRanger]

i did not understand a single word that AlloyDiesel said

[mainmenu895]

He basically said that if gravity was a constant force that would pull you downwards, why use a string? Since gravity would work. But you can't, so gravity is more complex than that.

[commanderchurch]

Thats crazy....

[pikachuthesquirtle]

thats nice.

[AlloyDiesel]

If gravity were simply a constant downward acceleration, like we are taught in Newtonian Physics, then you could do this same experiment using gravity instead of a string, right? But you cant. Does this mean gravity is more complex than just a constant downward accel? There seems to be something funky about either gravity, or magnetic attraction, and I think it is illustrated well in this video.

[phonox]

As far as I know, it's just that the force from the magnet is greater than the force of gravity in this case. In other words, it's all about having a magnetic force that nullifies the gravitational force.

Though, the gravitational force is by no means "constant", it varies depending on where on the planet you are and at what altitude etc.

[cordawg92]

Nothing out of the ordinary is shown here. It's just gravitational force being overcome by magnetic force. And if you think about gravity on the earth... it is basically always constant. The amount that the gravity fluctuates depending on where you are is trivial compared to the total downward acceleration felt on the ground. Maybe it would change from like -9.8 m/s^2 to like /9.790

[cheecoon]

actually he has string tied to them...LOL you can see it on the paperclip

[MrT3CH]

yea its tied to the bottom to keep the object from sticking to the magnet

[ITZNDREW]

he only tied it on the bottom....even on the hammer... the string is to prevent it from like sticking to the top magnet, and the fact the magnet had enough strength to hold a hammer up is pretty amazing

[clerlic]

No you couldn't, the point where the force of gravity equals to the magnetic force is exactly a POINT in space. You would need to have infinite precision and accuracy in both velocity and position of magnet, hammer and planet Earth, which means it's impossible.

And yes, gravity is more than downward force, it's just simplified in Newtonian physics.

[kmncztms]

I love experiments like this!

[scotfever]

well your just a big geek then, why would you want to waste your time doing this?

[TopsuLoL]

Why are you wasting your time by warching this vid, then?

[ZerqTM]

meh! using a string is cheating!

counter balance it agains the earths gravity instead hehe :3

[Chaossangel]

That would be awesome but soo hard.

[VolkColopatrion]

@ZerqTM the string is on the bottom... it wouldn't spin like that if it were upside down.. besides, the clip would fly to the magnet.

you don't believe it look at the diamagnetism of a frog.

[MrKaddan]

The strings are there to prevent the metal objects from slamming to the magnet. It is not possible to suspend a magnetic material directly under a permanent magnet. This is only possible with a superconducter or a magnet driven by electricity.. There actually a law about this people! >.>

[VolkColopatrion]

@MrKaddan

that's what i said wasn't it? 

[kimosabesun]

@ZerqTM Still looks bloody cool!

[7sevenELFeleven]

unbeliveble!

[flarn2006]

HAMMER TIME!!!

[tackywacky99]

wow by watching the paper clip u can see that the force of the pull of the magnet is so strong

[jonjetzone]

Gret demo, but you can make use of all these magnets even better rather than these demos :o) Regards, Jon

[robgallagher]

You don't know much about Neodymium Magnets, do you. This is a magnet with a 325 pound pull force lifting an 18 ounce hammer.Why would I need to fake something? If I was, how would I do it? Get real.

Rob the MagnetNerd

[12creations]

Hahaha, nice :) I did this with my 6" diameter x 4" thick magnet and got some pretty good distances. Tried it with a drill bit but didn't measure the distance between the bit and the magnet. I'm thinking it had to be around 1'. Cool video though.

[chao5cuber]

holy shit! 6" x 4"! put it in ur friends backpack and see what happens when he walks by a vending machine or sumthing :)

[12creations]

That's funny that you mention that because I did put a 2" diameter by 6" tall magnet in my backpack to take to college to give a demonstration. When I walked by the computer lab, people started freaking out :) I love tube monitors. Luckily, I was far enough away that it went away when I walked away.

[Creepyseven]

@robgallagher

you could cheat by putting it up side down and speeding it up

(btw i dont think you cheated was just a little hint that its easily possible)

[edgars911]

i think fake whut that red under that thing??

[PacVsEu]

the string you see is a restraint so they don't hit the magnet its just provening magnets can make other objects float with restraints cool though.