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· 11 years ago
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What ever happened to troll physics? These are hilarious XD
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lln0306
· 11 years ago
Would this work?
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matt
· 11 years ago
No. The magnet pulling would have to have a increasing velocity always slightly more than the magnet being pulled. To do that, the magnet pulling would have to be on something equipped to move it. If there were more magnets, and there were a constrained "rail" of magnets, you then would have mag-propulsion (or mag-lev) trains...
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guest
· 11 years ago
no, @matt , the magnet that the boat or train or whatever is holding would either do nothing because its being held away or it would be pulled back to the boat or train.
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guest
· 11 years ago
My thoughts exactly. ^^^
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guest
· 11 years ago
Wont work
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jasonoh32
· 11 years ago
Or you could put a magnet on the back of the boat and the other magnet could push it forward
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zazuyen
· 11 years ago
The magnets are pulling towards each other with equal force. The magnet attached the boat is trying to pull the boat foreward, but the other magnet is also attached to the boat (via the guy holding it) and it is trying to push the boat backwards, so the two forces cancel each other out. For this to work one of the magnets would have to be attached to something other than the boat.
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undead_red
· 10 years ago
in theroy yes but the only real problem is that there is not just one direction of force there is two. force of one magnet pulling the other, and vice versa. another way to think about it is that there is like a spot of gravity presicly in the middle of the two magnets. it pulls them together. the reason why holding them apart doesn't work is that the two forces are equal. like having two trians traveling in different directions hauling the car. un less one of the magnets has a lower attraction and the other has a much larger attraction then the whole theory is ca-put. PS there is nothing that will be have as described due to the science around magnetism.
