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It's like daaisy's idea of the monopole "floaty room" without the danger of the magnetic force around you to crushing your internal structure.
It is a large, lounge-like-chair-shaped peice of metal lined with neodymium magnets with their negative ends all focused at the same point.
At that point,
rests a person in his/her magnetic suit which is also lined with magnets whose negative poles are facing outward. He or he is hovering, but is not being pushed on from all sides, so is more comfortable and able of geting out of the magnetic chair.
At some points allong the peice of metal where all the magnets are placed (the chair) there will be a stronger magnetic field than in other places, like below the neck, legs, and lower back, offering more support.
With all the positive ends of the magnets pointing outward, another chair could be installed next to the original, this time with the chair-goer in a positive suit, so forming a couch or loveseat. The only downside is that the two people can't come anywhere near eachother without being flung apart.
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This strikes me as more of an annotation to the quoted idea than an idea in itself. |
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And why would you want a metal couch? |
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You wouldn't be laying on the couch, you'd be hovering above it. And it was merely inspired by the floaty room. |
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At the least, it would catapult the user across the room. And if, like me, you occasionally put on your clothes inside out, you could become permanently attatched to your furniture. |
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And I questioned the use of metal as it would look hideous and be amazingly uncomfortable whenever you wanted to sit on it like a normal sofa (i.e. when you don't want to be flung away from anyone sitting next to you). |
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Then you cover the metal in upholstery. |
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You are sitting normally. The magnets on your back repel the couch. |
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However... The magnet on your chest has the opposite pole facing the couch, and it wants in, no matter what is in the way. |
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Also, you and your loveseat-mate won't be flung apart, you will be joined together until you take your clothes off. |
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On second thought, you may have invented the ultimate loveseat. |
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Impossible. Earnshaw's theorem states that there is no possible static configuration of ferromagnets which can stably levitate an object against gravity, even when the magnetic forces are stronger than the gravitational forces. |
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-there is no magnet on your chest, only on your back. |
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-I forgot that your neighbor's clothing will be opposite yours. |
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-You're probably right about it being impossible. |
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Depending where you sit on the couch this device will either:
a/ Whip you around to the end of the couch and attach you permanently to itself.
b/ Launch you violently across the room
c/ Launch you upside down and pull you back in, quickly.
d/ All of the above, simultaneously. |
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