SinkScience #11 - Mysterious Reversing Ball Magnet

Balls go flying, as MrfixitRick shows how certain conditions cause a magnetic ball to suddenly and completely reverse its direction, mysteriously revolving backwards to the direction of rotation of the magnetic Tesla CD Turbine.

This is a truly remarkable magnetic phenomenon...
I invite your explanations!

YouTube user AdminOnDuty has suggested that the magnetic ball is influenced by the catenoid space of the magnetic field of the magnets of the turbine, and something called the event horizon.
Here is a link to a diagram of the catenoid magnetic lines of force:
http://urad.net/forums/gallery/displa...

The Tesla CD Turbine is a home-made turbine based on the ideas of Nikola Tesla and his Tesla Turbine, but modified using CD discs and neodymium magnets as rotating parts of the turbine.

Mrfixitrick gets magnets at:
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/default.asp?PARTNER=mrfixitrick

The Tesla CD Turbine web site:
http://www.cdturbine.com

To learn how to build Tesla CD Turbines, visit my Instructables site at:
http://www.instructables.com/member/mrfixits/

Music "This Heart's On Fire" courtesy Hadji of Wolf Parade.

For a great video of Mehran Keshe explaining a new understanding between magnetism and gravity that will radically change our world soon, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtf5bp76ArE

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[junior1984able]

what and who is the name of the song intro you played

[MrfixitRick]

@junior1984able

The intro is the band Wolf Parade with "This Heart's On Fire". My stepson plays in the band.

[Choowbz]

A metal ball inserted into a ping pong ball may give a surprising effect as the rotation within a rotation could cause it to jump or lift with speed.

[MrfixitRick]

I did try a magnet inside a styrofoam ball, and got some interesting pulsing results when placing it in water above the turbine. The ball was able to jog through the water backwards to the rotation of the turbine.

[alecj86]

did you tape it?

[MrfixitRick]

I did tape it, but it is not edited into a movie yet. It looks similar to the backwards rotation of above, but with a bow wave!

[highguard01]

please do this with ferrofluid.

[HEADPLATZER]

put your finger in it :D

[willian32976]

2:55) that is weird!!! even

[willian32976]

1:35) LMFOA!!!! jack hannah meets science!!!

[rwg42985]

Yes! Some good data here my friend! Thanks for sharing! Will be looking at some of your other videos! Good stuff good stuff! Thanks, ~Russ

[zlac]

@zlac Basically, Nikola Tesla explained it and you can't explain it further. If you don't understand what is the meaning of his explanation, all you can to do is learn enough about magnetism and electromagnetism and you will understand; Lenz's law is your friend.

[zlac]

I would say that it is an effect similar or even analogous to aliasing effect in all sampling things. You get negative frequency when stuff that you are sampling is faster than sample rate.

(wheels on cars or helicopter blades look like they're turning in the wrong direction on TV because of the sample rate -> frame rate).

What Nikola Tesla says about Eddy currents is analogous to aliasing effect (also lookup wikipedia for Lenz's law to learn what eddy currents do and why)

[junior1984able]

@junior1984able thanks, good song

[derman077]

Arrow Looks like the moon orbit, I wonder if that's why gravity doesn't fit the model. You better be wearing a full face mask with that ball whizzing around through space like that. Very cool experiment. Great quote too. Thanks