----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Blanton <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009 10:41 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:well, steorn have launched
> Yeah, what MJ said: neodymium. I misspelled it. > > Well, after many nights of cogitation, I think I finally understand > what Steorn is saying. Their claim is that magnetic force is time > variant. This is a remarkable claim. > > Energy is force applied over a distance and is time invariant. It > doesn't matter if it takes you a second or a year to lift the bucket > of water, the energy expended is the same (except for higher order > effects which we will ignore here). Steorn says that the energy > expended to separate magnets varies with the time you spend doing the > separating. I believe this would be a violation of the laws of > thermo. > > I am trying to come up with an experiment that we can perform with > our equpment. > > Terry Would it be more accurate to say magnetic force is velocity variant instead of time variant? eg. The force of friction between a curling stone and the ice tends to decrease with increasing speed. Consequently it takes less force to push a curling stone over a set distance at a constant speed of v1 then it does at a constant speed of v2, when v1 > v2. Harry
