Here is an interesting post that relates to the spinning magnet
experiment done by Chris Eccles;
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>Can anyone offer an explanation ?
*** {Prof. Thomas Barnes has an electromagnetic theory of gravitation
according to which the attraction between unlike charges is ever so
slightly greater than the repulsion between like charges.
Result: seemingly neutral masses have a slight net attraction for one
another, which we term the force of gravity.
By this theory, Newton's gravitational formula is a special case of
Coulomb attraction.
Since a neutron decays into a proton and an electron, and since a
photon exhibits an oscillation between a positive and a negative
electrical charge, this theory can with some plausibility be applied
even to neutrons and photons.
While I disagree with the Barnes theory for reasons that I will not go
into here, it does seem relevant to the above result.
I would also note that the above described experiment involves a
spinning disc, and there are vast numbers of claims by what is
generally regarded as the lunatic fringe to have observed disc-shaped
aircraft of apparently alien origin ("flying saucers") which seem to
be able to hover in defiance
of gravity.
It is rather easy to imagine that a "flying saucer" has an array of
magnets mounted around its periphery, south poles pointing inward, and
a rotating circular array just inside of that, north poles pointing
outward.
While such speculations are probably just a bunch of rubbish, I would
say that this report merits further investigation before being
dismissed.
-- Mitchell Jones}***
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This correlation to spinning discs brings to mind the Levitron
magnetic top which uses normally polarized magnets spinning to prevent
them from flipping. Curiouser and curiouser...
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