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What you need is a clear tube that has ferromagnetic. I know of no such material but then again I haven't been looking for it.

You could probably do the same thing with metal in the tube and a small battery.

Then you could turn it "on/off" and allow spectators to drop the magnet in and have nothing happen.

I figure the whole, "We are slowing time down in the tube. Use your mind think stop stop stop..."

This effect is described by Lenz's Law, which says that if you drop a coiled loop of wire past a magnet, the same thing will happen due to the conservation of energy. If the coil isn't a loop (the ends aren't in contact) it'll fall under gravity alone.

True enough...

I was thinking of 2 mm silver wire into plexiglass.

If you power that up with a battery you should get the same effect when dropping a magnet.

I suppose you could flip it and make it a magnetic tube with a copper wire...

Infinite wrote:True enough...

I was thinking of 2 mm silver wire into plexiglass.

If you power that up with a battery you should get the same effect when dropping a magnet.

I suppose you could flip it and make it a magnetic tube with a copper wire...

I think you'd probably need a lot of wire to create enough of a field. What might be okay is a high gauss neo and a copper tube drilled to resemble mesh. Dunno. Not done the maths.

Great. Now people have a reason for saying it was done with magnets! whenever we make something float...

Tomo wrote:I think you'd probably need a lot of wire to create enough of a field. What might be okay is a high gauss neo and a copper tube drilled to resemble mesh. Dunno. Not done the maths.

Well yeah or a heck of a lot of power to make the electro magnet work.


Hmm well its interesting anyway but out of my skill set beyond the thought experiment.