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Magnetic spaceship
Using a strong bar magnet and earth's magnetic field to propel a spaceship | |
We all know that the earth has a strong magnetic field. It's geographic south pole is its magnetic north pole and vice versa. If we place a strong bar magnet inside a spaceship and place the spaceship in Antarctica, it is theoreticallly possible that the spaceship will be propelled into space due to
repulsion between the south pole of the spaceship and the south pole of the earth. Will this take place in real life?
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I don't think this would work... the magnet on the spaceship would be small compared to the magnetic field of the Earth, so the north and south poles of the spaceship magnet would cancel out with respect to Earth's large magnetic field. like the dipole effect. |
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I don't think a substance with a field strong enough to lift its own weight exists, let along a spaceship. |
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I was going to post an idea about launching an electromagnetic parachute from one of the Earth’s poles until I did a bit of reading and found out just how weak the Earth's magnetic field is. I have to croissant the thought though. |
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interesting...use a superconductor to generate a huge magnetic field. but MRI machines don't unexpectedly lift off, so I dunno... |
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would the spaceship tend to just flip around rather than lift off? |
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if you take a magnet and freeze it to as close to absolute it will no longer magnetize to metal it will actualy levetaite if you look closer to the magnet you can faintly see what looks like an atmospheric ring around the magnet witch gave me ideas for an electromagnetic force feild not a space ship you would have to use one planet as a pull for your ship as well as another planet as you push like spiderman uses his webb spinner to swing from on duilding to the next bridge your talking of building a ship the size of a star and able to magneticly reach not just another planet but another star or galaxy |
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I believe the gravitational force of the Earth is considerably stronger than its magnetic field. |
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//We all know that the earth has a strong magnetic field.// |
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Um, no, we don't. It's very, very weak. |
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I have to buy a specially-made device, called a compass, to detect the earth's magnetic field, and my car, which shouldn't have a magnetic field at all, completely screws that up. But my car doesn't levitate. |
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This idea is bad science and not even new, sadly. |
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A quandary has occurred to me, as
follows. |
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The earth has a largely iron core, which
also has a modest degree of
magnetization, yes? |
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If the magnetization were strong, then
clearly a magnetic spaceship would be
repelled if it were large enough, and if it
were facing the right way (opposite
poles repel). This would be just like
two regular magnets repelling
eachother. |
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If the magnetization were nonexistent,
then a magnetic spaceship would,
instead, be attracted to the earth (just
as a
fridge magnet is attracted to your
fridge). |
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So, there must be some intermediate
point between no magnetisation and
strong magnetisation, at which there
would be no net force on the spaceship,
no? |
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This feels wrong intuitively - that the
force should flip from attraction to
repulsion as the strength of the
magnetic field increases smoothly. |
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The earth's iron core is very hot. Very hot iron cannot be magnetized. The magnetic field of the earth is produced by electrical currents conducted within the earth. I am not sure why there are electrical currents in the earth, but there you go. |
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OK, but the basic argument remains: a
magnet would be repelled by a strongly
magnetized lump of iron (if in the
appropriate orientation), but attracted by a
non-magnetized lump; where would the
transition point be, and why? |
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//...just [as] a fridge magnet is attracted to your fridge...// |
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I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this...I have a fridge magnet that is attracted to my range hood. Is this wrong? |
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Is it a young fridge magnet? Has it has
much social contact with others of its
species? |
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Is a range hood the rural equivalent of a hood rat? |
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Yes, no, and "what's a hood rat?", respectively, to the above questions. |
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Sninctown, was on the right track. Your looking to create a 'superconductor' on your spaceship. |
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They would have to be pretty powerful and need a heap of power and some more neat ideas. |
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Maybe place the some ceramic super conductors inside of a pastic cyrogenic capsules, heavily insulated they'll stay crispy cold for longer. Initally they would be huge, but given some thought the size would come down. |
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We're on track to find 'super conductors' that don't need to be cold. |
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Yes, this is old science. |
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[Abhishek Sundar] created an account on August 6 2004, posted this idea two days later, and was never heard from again. Did he find some way to make this idea work, but was unable to return home? |
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August 9 2004, we heard a thump on the Cube's hull ... err ... ooops ? |
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//it is theoretically possible that the spaceship will
be propelled into space// [marked-for-tagline] |
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