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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by greesil on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:09PM (#22143950)
What would you do with a magnetic monopole? I might make this an interview question at work. Hmmm
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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by hnuser123456 on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:49PM (#22144106)
Make an infinite energy machine by having magnets on a rotor, surrounded by monopoles on a stator (or vice versa), so the rotor is infinitely accelerated with no external input energy. Hook it up to an alternator and harness the free power.
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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong by jcranmer on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:38PM (#22144480)
I'm pretty sure that doesn't work for the same reason that replacing monopoles with charged objects (which we can actually build!) doesn't produce a perpetual motion machine.
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