Stephan Marinov developed this system. He has now, sadly, moved on to that
big physics lab in the sky. I spoke with Stephan extensively about this
device. To cut a long story short, the cylindrical magnet is cut in two,
down the middle, and arranged so that a north and south pole exists at each
end of the re-joined magnet. The goal was to create a magnet that had a
fully self contained magnetic field, i.e. no external flux exists around
the magnet. This is difficult to accomplish as there is usually some small
flux leakage into the space surrounding the magnet. Stephans early
experiments showed a torque on a copper ring surrounding the magnet when
current 'flowed' through the copper, the thought was that this torque
resulted from a 'spin field' associated with and around the magnetic field.
He was aware that there was a slight external field leaking from his
magnet. He took steps to shield this leakage by encapsulating the magnet in
a metal shielding. When the magnet was shielded in this manner all torque
on the copper ring ceased. This suggested that the slight torque reading on
the copper ring was the result of interaction between the conducting copper
ring and the small external flux leakage of the magnet, i.e. conventional
electromagnetic motor action.
Regards, Bill.
At 08:04 3/09/98 +1200, Matthew Redmond wrote:
>I remember reading an article by a person who I believe is now dead, about
>cutting a magnet in half along its axis, then twisting is so that at one end
>has a N/S pair, and the other a S/N pair...hard to explain so here is a
>rough ascii drawing to make you more confused.
>
>
> ==============================-
> / /|\
>| | | |
>| |N|S|
> \ \|/
> ==============================-
>
>
>The story went that if you wrapped a coil of copper around the new magnet,
>lay it in a small bath of mercury then pumped some current through the wire
>you would get some interesting effect (From memory). This effect was that
>the coil would turn slightly on the magnet "in the direction of current
>flow." Everyone who has done some form of physics in their life should
>realise that "every action has an equal but oppocite reaction" (not too sure
>on the wording so hopefully the physics police don't beat me up!). So what
>is happening....
>
>My thought ...well I think it was mine...oh well
>===========
>
>Normally there is a vortex of aether around the magnet from one end to the
>other. Lets just say that in 99 out 100 cases the vortex turns in the same
>direction from N to S (subject to which hemisphere...I think). Right now
>that that is 100% clear I will continue...So in this case we have two
>vortexs traveling in the oposite directions which could result in collision
>on the axis where the magnet was cut in half (???). Or, the vortices
>rremain unhalmed and travel to the ends of the magnet without problem which
>gives the illusion to any tom, dick or harry wire that the magnet is like a
>super charged aether accumulator. All that it would seem like is a series
>of permanent (??) grid patterns accross the serface of the magnet(???).
>
>This is hard to explain, so I'll continue..
>
>The current going around the magnet attracts what seems to be "stationary"
>charge into the wire giving you more power and also twisting the wire in the
>process (aether pushing itself into the wire...well maybe not
>entirely...arghh hard to explain!)
>
>Leave it there I think!
>
>Matthew.