Smudge Back to magnetic motors. Here is another paper suggesting a possible motor. Anyone up to building something? This uses stator disc magnets all facing inwards but uses finger-like rotor magnets set as spokes. These are magnetized across their thin dimension. A system using just one disc and one spoke could be measured to see whether the torque over a full revolution averages to zero, or whether there is a small net torque in one direction.
I had similar thoughts and performed quite a few tests with negative results. My reasoning was a small field in a larger focused field could produce asymmetrical forces as you implied. However I only used rotating devices with some inertia to maintain the motion long enough to sample the accelerations and determine the overall change in velocity. Something happens, the action/reaction fields always combine in such a way that the energy in/out equal each other. One field may act over a smaller period of time within a space but the field is stronger. Like wise a field can act over a longer period of time within a space but the field is weaker. So the field density versus area is maintained thus the energy. Some inventors such as Wesley Gary claimed there were very small neutral zones near the field center between the poles which could be manipulated. I found these regions and there's a very good reason most didn't or failed to produce the desired results. As always the devil is in the details and nobody seemed to be following the patent. A normal bar magnet does have a fairly uniform near/far field as we have all seen in diagrams but not the compound magnets shown in the patent. Compound magnets have a uniform far field but the near field also curls back into each individual magnet. With magnetic viewing film these zones between the magnets appear as white lines where the field becomes more concentrated. Another obscure fact only mentioned once was that Gary also used non-magnetic spacers between each compound magnet. Another aspect seldom if ever mentioned or replicated is the fact that many inventors used compound magnets of different strengths and spacing. So while one magnet may attract/repel another could remain neutral or have it's field displaced/combined with other magnets. Thus were left with the "52 card gambit" where the magnets/combined fields/field densities have so many possible permutations it becomes almost impossible to comprehend. A standard deck of 52 cards has 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (8.06e+67) possible combinations. Regards AC
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