KrisBlueNZ
Sadly passed away in 2015
It's tempting to imagine that there's a special position, or combination of positions, where statically positioned magnets could make a wheel spin; this is exactly the temptation that's being exploited by the creator of the "magnet motor" video you pointed us to, but it's not true, as BobK explained.
It's similar to the old-fashioned "perpetual motion" machines that rely on weights that move as the wheel turns, so that gravity acts on them to turn the wheel when they're on the downwards-moving part of the wheel, but not when they're on the upwards-moving part of the wheel. It doesn't work there, either.
I looked at that "magnet motor" video. It looks pretty convincing, but that doesn't make me think it's for real. All that tells me is that he's hidden the trick pretty well.
It's similar to the old-fashioned "perpetual motion" machines that rely on weights that move as the wheel turns, so that gravity acts on them to turn the wheel when they're on the downwards-moving part of the wheel, but not when they're on the upwards-moving part of the wheel. It doesn't work there, either.
I looked at that "magnet motor" video. It looks pretty convincing, but that doesn't make me think it's for real. All that tells me is that he's hidden the trick pretty well.
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