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Uploaded by on Feb 24, 2007

Watch a small magnet levitate and spin between two diamagnetic plates. Looks like magic, but you can duplicate the experiment for about $10 for a science fair project...just go to http://www.wondermagnet.com/ and click on 'experiments.'

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  • science fair?

    what would the problem be?>

  • Earnshaw's theorem -- magnetic levitation cannot occur unless there is a stabilizing force from another axis. DAN

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  • If it was in a vacuum would it ever stop?

  • can you move the magnets farther apart?????

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  • Come on now, you don't need to hide your true identity anymore, Chuck Norris.

  • is their a 3rd magnet up above? some pictures have shown a larger magnet hanging above but i could see it working with the 2 magnet blocks

  • what I've been trying to do, is levitate a ball that is covered with magnets, all with positive side out over a magnet that has the positive side up. but it doesn't work. Why is that?

  • @madrobo no.

  • @supergooddeal What do you mean by vacuum?

  • OMFG!!!!... ): GREAT! i was thinking about doing something like this all last night and here i see someone has already done it,,, Bullshit,,,

  • What happens if you do this in a vacuum? Perpetual motion? Very cool.

  • @Sven2Perroy

    I guess it's because he used a hair dryer to blow in that direction.

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