Thanks for the input, Jones. The pin stays in the same place when it is rotated 180 degree and put back > in the tube - and/or – get this: the pin stays in the same place when the > entire system is turned 180 degree (the pin does not drop away due to > gravity in either of the two upside down alignments) > > > > The are four possibilities for levitating alignment and the pin stays in > the same spot for all 4 of them. Brian Ahern actually has 4 images of the > four possibilities - to prove this. > > > > The pin has no lateral/vertical stability – thus lateral support is needed > to keep it stable. It flies over to any one of the four corners otherwise. >
If the pin is just a lightweight soft reluctor, then it would tend to stay aligned to magnetic field lines and a symmetric divergence of the field could hold it in place. OK, I can buy that. I don't buy that there is a continuous oscillation of the magnetic field. What evidence is there of any oscillation? Obviously if there were oscillations, it would be possible to extract energy. > > > This billet has been conditioned in a manner which was based on the work > of Floyd Sweet. > There is an old technology called "magnetic amplifiers" which could be related to this effect. See the wikipedia page: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_amplifier <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_amplifier>* . I would look closely at this old technology to hypothesize how the Sweet device works. The conditioning involves huger burst of power though solenoid coils place > in different areas around the edges of the magnet. There is information > online about this. > This is the classic description of how an uncharged magnet gets charged - with a burst of current through a solenoid. It appears that this ferrite magnet material gets charged in multiple domains at the same time to produce a prescribed field pattern. > > > Yes I have such a billet and have seen the effect, but my billet is > thinner (1/4”) and the levitation distance is less, and I must use a light > sewing pin. A nail is too heavy. Sadly, I have not been able to reproduce > the energy gain but believe it is there and that this magnet and the > circuit is the key to it. > > > > This “levitating pin effect” can, and has been, simulated with two magnets > – one toroid and one ring speaker magnet, axially magnetized. That should > tell you something. Place a clear tube with a pin inside a toroid which > will hold the tube, and place that assembly inside, near the top, of a > woofer speaker magnet, and the effect can be seen. The pin is “locked” in > space, and levitated no matter what alignment it is in. > It would seem important to create a field axis normal to the slab, but also create a second domain near the surface to cancel the field there, so that above the slab is a field divergence to hold the pin in place. This levitation demonstration seems to be just spectacle and I cannot see how it would be related to energy production. Bob Higgins
