uhh what the fuck (magnets video)

Hammer Tank

http://www.youtube.com/user/brainiac75#p/u/4/XVv8qWZ8xzw

2:01 and on .... what principle is this??? i've never heard of it before. "eddys" in the space time continuum?

Hellish

Basically, from what I remember, the magnetic field interacts with the electrons of the aluminum.

Katzenklavier

See: http://totse.info/bbs/showthread.php?t=8894

HugeDrawballFaggot

Wow, that is weird.

I'm voting for this explaination:

Aluminum isn't normally magnetic, but as you carry a large aluminum tray toward the magnet, you find that the magnet repels the aluminum. Explain.
Once again, Lenz's law. The magnet induces a magnetic field in the moving aluminum tray to oppose its own, effectively pushing it away.
You eventually manage to get the aluminum tray up to the magnet. As long as the tray doesn't move, it experiences no magnetic forces. But when you drop it, it falls past the magnet remarkably slowly. What slows down its fall?
That trickster, Lenz. When the tray is stationary, the magnetic field of the magnet is not changing, but as soon as it moves, the field begins changing and an opposing field is induced.

Source: http://www.pureenergysystems.com/os/MagneticMotors/MXLO/theory/aluminum_and_mangets/index.html

*cringing at that url*

RemadE

Hellish wrote: »

Basically, from what I remember, the magnetic field interacts with the electrons of the aluminum.

I loled pretty hard, actually.