Amazing Discovery With Magnets - The Inverter Magnet

I'm very fond of magnetic toys and I have quite a number of them in my collection only very occasion they've had only twice I think I've come across magnetic toys which show a completely new principle and this is the second one I've come across the extraordinary and it consists of just four near diem disks which are very strong magnets and then curiously here we have a ring containing six very small neodymium magnets and now to make the effect we simply have to join these pieces together thus that's quite strong now and this one here oh that's a strong one to show how strong they are we will just bring it together and see what happens it's gonna push it away from quite a distance anyway we wanted to be attracting so I'm going to put it in that mode there when it's going to come towards it that will keep it away now the ring here we're going to get this into a repulsion mode so try and get it to push away oh it's attracting so I'll turn it over and now it should repel yes its repelling and now the clever part is when we put these two pieces together as an assembly we've now got a single magnetic system in which we have one that's going to be attracted to this and then I'll set a ring of six which are being repelled by this outside magnet what's going to happen when I bring this towards it it's being attracted to the middle one but it's being repelled by the little satellite ones on the outside what could happen oh it was attracted and it stopped it's being repelled there's a bath at 8:00 so quarter-inch air gaps there now where it can't get any closer but not further away out there that's absolutely amazing I turned this one nothing much sir if I turn the big one there was a ring let's see what happens it turns around with it still maintaining that air gap of about eight to a quarter-inch way around it refuses to get any closer and yet it won't go any further away either it's a kind of equilibrium it's it's it's stuck there like an invisible arm joining the two together it's called an inverter by the inventor and it surrounds him I suppose of the tractor beam in Star Trek invisible but anyway to me it's it's magic it's a physics I don't understand but it's wonderful

Channel: Grand Illusions

Views: 3,181,182

Keywords: toy collection, old toys, Tim Rowett, Grand Illusions, mechanical toys, spinning tops, magnetic toys

Id: LyvfDzRLsiU

Length: 2min 41sec (161 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 12 2013