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mistertrustworthy13 karma

What's the saddest thing you've seen, working at a casino?

mistertrustworthy7 karma

Why can't you be terribly specific? Will they beat you with sticks? Delete your Google Plus account?

mistertrustworthy4 karma

What are the things about city life and folk that you still think are weird?

mistertrustworthy3 karma

Would such magnets, aligned in such a way that as they pass, say, a hunk of iron at the base of the contraption, get enough momentum to sort of slingshot past and maintain the rotation, even enough to overcome friction?

Electromagnetism conserves energy, so no. Each magnet, passing through its cycle, isn't going to create new energy (or derive new energy from some process.) http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node89.html Any more than a ball rolling around in some closed loop is going to gain extra energy each pass from gravity, since gravity conserves energy.

I saw plans online for a sort of perpetual motion machine where a wheel of such magnets, once started, would be able to spin indefinitely.

Your system's going to lose energy in the form of friction.

Do we know enough about gravity to be able to create a sort of field to negate or reverse gravity's effects within that field,

Not the way you're asking. If you go into space, and fart around, you can find the point where the gravitational attraction from the moon is just enough to counteract the gravitational attraction from the earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point But that's not some sci-fi force field, it's just physics.

to ultimately achieve what this UFO is notorious for being able to achieve

The people who claim to have witnessed that UFO and stuff need to step up with real evidence to support their claims. Until that happens, it's not worth believing them. Any more than you should believe a guy if your wallet disappears and he says gnomes stole it. (Not gnomist.)

Same with the tabloids that claim to have photos of the Loch Ness Monster or Bat Boy.


If you want a good book on physics, try "The Cartoon Guide to Physics". It's brilliant, and a really good place to get started.

mistertrustworthy3 karma

What's an Ariel earth?