I shot this video in August 2010. This is the first time I have uploaded it to TH-cam. As mentioned in another posting, we are moving all the Grand Illusions videos to TH-cam, at a higher quality than they were previously available on our web site. Some are up to 4 years old, others just a couple of days old. Once they are all moved across (about 150 to go) then all our new videos will be posted immediately up to TH-cam.
I do love the science in these videos... but it's really his accent that makes it awesome. Were I a billionaire, I would pay to have this guy read the newspaper to me every day in his soothing, plummy British voice. "...gracious me, troubles in Syria again..." Bliss.
Are you kidding me? I would pay top dollar if I could just to hear him talk literally wtv he wanted even if it was about the weather. Can you imagine being so awesome people go crazy just from hearing you speaking? its mad
Just a heads-up I spent one of my lunch breaks from work watching dozens of these videos, but I now use them as background noise with which to sleep. It's exceedingly odd, but the voice of an English gentleman explaining how toys work is very soothing.
I like to imagine Tim just has some giant room in his house that has all of his toys continuously moving and doing what they do. It would probably really awesome to see all of them next to each other.
This could be made into a BB gun using an electro magnet which attracts a heavy steel slug. The force of impact could be transferred to a lightweight ball bearing on the other side, which is allowed to escape the barrel at high velocity.
Brien Elwood Washburn It's too bad that instead of keeping it clean you decide to drop to insults as well. Although it does keep the kindergarten vibe alive, I guess.
The fired ball would be blocked by the ball already attached to the magnet. The magnet will not lose any force but the full potential energy of the fired ball will not be turned into kinetic energy since the 1st ball would be in the way.
(Replying here, though it's mostly for Kombaiyashii.) If you had a round angled track like a roulette wheel without the nubs, low gravity and possibly low air pressure or a near-vaccum, you might be able to get a couple of loops out of it. Eventually any setup will terminate, however. What might be interesting would be to see if one could set multiples of these in a loop and run them around like dominoes, but with multiple iterations until the last bearing of each set.
Certainly - but it would not keep going. The attraction between the 'trigger' bearing is much greater than the attraction between the projectile bearing and its neighbor, as it is further away from the magnet. That is why the projectile bearing leaves at high speed. If you put it in a loop, the the first one would go quickly, the second, with a bearing between the magnets and the new trigger bearing, would barely work, if at all.
Yes. But as the cycle continues, the recoil will be shorter as the magnetic disks approach vertical section because of stronger gravitational effect. Since the recoil is shorter, the ejection speed of the next ball will be slower. So you won't get the perpetual motion machine you're dreaming of.
I don't see why not; it's travelling really fast. The problem is that when the ball bearing comes around the loop, it will hit a ball bearing, not the magnet, and won't shoot off the next ball bearing nearly as fast, if at all.
Dont worry im not some idiot who dosent appreciate the components of how life works but It seems odd to me that this one of the most watched videos on his channel.
It seems like the ball that is ejected receives more energy than the trigger ball delivers. If so, that's a working free energy machine. Now how to increase and harness it.
Notice how he has to exert some effort to pull the ball away from the magnet? That's where the energy comes from. Like stretching a piece of elastic, he is putting magnetic potential energy into the system, which is turned into kinetic energy (movement) as the ball is pulled towards the magnet.
My best guess is that the magnet accelerates the sliding ball in the last moment and than that force is enough to beat the magnetic tight of the last one. Is that it? ^_^
***** It actually doesn't like he said at the last second the first ball speeds up because of the magnetic attraction and this energy is tranfered to the last ball in the series.
Damian Reloaded Basically the ball that gets fired is already getting pulled down the ramp away from the magnet and the ball rolling down the ramp is already getting pulled. One loses, one wins. I know this is from a year ago but i wanted to explain it to myself too lol
Damian Reloaded Basically the ball that gets fired is already getting pulled down the ramp away from the magnet and the ball rolling down the ramp is already getting pulled. One loses, one wins. I know this is from a year ago but i wanted to explain it to myself too lol
Well you would need a magnet behind the next one to be hit, and since the magnet stays where it was in relation to the other balls, eventually the magnet would reach the front and there would be no more power. But you could make a long one that had quite a few balls and it might work for a while.
To remove it you would have to invest a lot of energy in potential energy within the first ball by pulling it away from the magnet - this actually consumes more energy than the moves ball has in kinetic energy.
It is almost like a over unity machine. He put so little energy into it, and got more out. If you could put the fired ball on a rail and send it back to the top to fire the next one. Friction and lack of replacement balls would probably stop such an idea from working.
1. Make a track to guide the ball to the other side. 2. Get a spring to push the magnet back to the original place. 3. Put a motor somewhere in between. 4. Perpetual energy.
Yes, since the ball bearing is still attached (remember he has to pull it off each time and reset the mechanism) when the ball circled around, it would hit the ball, and one of two things would happen: it may launch ONE more ball in the same fashion, but similar to the final part of the video - it will reach equilibrium when the second ball loops back around, and nothing will happen. Of course, if you had enough time you could remove the ball and it would go forever, but that's adding energy.
Similar to what happens in nuclear fission btw. Not quite accurate, but that's also a pile that gets unstable and blasts apart if overloaded under just the right circumstances.
adoboawesome guass cannon on a worthog in halo wich follows this physics and the rail gun with is a complex gun then a m.a.c. wich is even more complex
.... GAUSS. CARL FRED MOTHERFUCKING GAUSS IS HIS NAME. Gauss guns and coil guns are the same thing. They're pitifully simple. A wire is wrapped around the barrel of the weapon, electric charge is sent through the wire and timed to activate one series of coils after the other to pull the projectile forward. Projectile speeds up fast enough to kill out the end, person on receiving end dies. The end. Much like real guns, no physics degree is required to figure out how they work.. how well they work is another story.
I have wondered for a long time: Why are steel balls called ball bearings? If the balls came out of a ball bearing the logical word would be bearing balls, not ball bearings. Or are they used as bearings for something I don't know of?
Sablatnic they are called ball bearings because they are balls that are near perfect roundness which are used in a bearing race or so called ball bearing, called so because it is weight or force bearing, some bearings are made from softer materials like nylon or bronze and these bearings are called solid bearings. you can also get tapered bearings and roller bearings, but you are right, it is kinda ass backwards named.
The mass (m) of the ball bearing accelerates (a) down the slope creating a force (F) via transferred kinetic energy through to the other ball bearings, effecting the one on the other side....F=ma.
***** Everything that exists has a lot more to do with it...It's still a good example of F=ma....That fact still stands despite your need to point out the obvious.
Well, there is gonna be a ball in the way, so the magnet will not be able to pull that looped ball in so close and so fast... Thus I doubt the reaction will be as significant.
His explanation isn't right... The magnet+balls arrangement is attracted to the rolling ball, the rolling ball is attracted to the magnets, they hit each other and the energy is transferred to the last ball.
There is no free energy in this system. It is only using the potential energy in the magnets to "generate" kinetic energy. But I just realized a problem that you have to manually move the ball back to the front. :(
Start trying to diagram it and you should see why it doesn't work. After the first few fire off, they'll be in the wrong position to start again. Even in a circle, it would have to be reset.
Why not actually do the calculations using values estimated from the video to find out how much energy the launched ball has, and if it can be redirected back to the top of the track via a loop, instead of just insulting everyone who doesn't agree with your pre-conceived notions? Or is your country so superior at math and science that they have entirely forgone the scientific method?
I shot this video in August 2010. This is the first time I have uploaded it to TH-cam. As mentioned in another posting, we are moving all the Grand Illusions videos to TH-cam, at a higher quality than they were previously available on our web site. Some are up to 4 years old, others just a couple of days old. Once they are all moved across (about 150 to go) then all our new videos will be posted immediately up to TH-cam.
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I do love the science in these videos... but it's really his accent that makes it awesome. Were I a billionaire, I would pay to have this guy read the newspaper to me every day in his soothing, plummy British voice. "...gracious me, troubles in Syria again..." Bliss.
Are you kidding me? I would pay top dollar if I could just to hear him talk literally wtv he wanted even if it was about the weather. Can you imagine being so awesome people go crazy just from hearing you speaking? its mad
Just a heads-up I spent one of my lunch breaks from work watching dozens of these videos, but I now use them as background noise with which to sleep. It's exceedingly odd, but the voice of an English gentleman explaining how toys work is very soothing.
Why is he playing with magnets and not working in his Jurassic Parc?
I like to imagine Tim just has some giant room in his house that has all of his toys continuously moving and doing what they do. It would probably really awesome to see all of them next to each other.
This could be made into a BB gun using an electro magnet which attracts a heavy steel slug. The force of impact could be transferred to a lightweight ball bearing on the other side, which is allowed to escape the barrel at high velocity.
***** "The TH-cam comment section is the virtual equivalent of kindergarten. You're the primary reason why."
Says the guy named ColorfulDicks.
Primary, get it? Primary colors? Learned in kindergarten?
speaking of kindergarten, If they had shown kids this crazy stuff in school, more of them might be interested in math and physics.
Brien Elwood Washburn
It's too bad that instead of keeping it clean you decide to drop to insults as well. Although it does keep the kindergarten vibe alive, I guess.
Brien Elwood Washburn That's got to go down as one of the longest rants i never read. But hey, keep fighting the good fight...
Brien Elwood Washburn all you had to say was "no u"
I've always been fascinated how Gauss guns work. I'm glad I found this video. Thank you :)
Yes, you could theoretically create a perpetual motion machine, but some energy is lost along the way due to friction, so it would eventually stop.
The fired ball would be blocked by the ball already attached to the magnet. The magnet will not lose any force but the full potential energy of the fired ball will not be turned into kinetic energy since the 1st ball would be in the way.
Playing your video at slow speed makes it clear to see that ball's speed is increasing when it is comes closer to magnet.
(Replying here, though it's mostly for Kombaiyashii.)
If you had a round angled track like a roulette wheel without the nubs, low gravity and possibly low air pressure or a near-vaccum, you might be able to get a couple of loops out of it. Eventually any setup will terminate, however.
What might be interesting would be to see if one could set multiples of these in a loop and run them around like dominoes, but with multiple iterations until the last bearing of each set.
Certainly - but it would not keep going. The attraction between the 'trigger' bearing is much greater than the attraction between the projectile bearing and its neighbor, as it is further away from the magnet. That is why the projectile bearing leaves at high speed. If you put it in a loop, the the first one would go quickly, the second, with a bearing between the magnets and the new trigger bearing, would barely work, if at all.
Yes. But as the cycle continues, the recoil will be shorter as the magnetic disks approach vertical section because of stronger gravitational effect. Since the recoil is shorter, the ejection speed of the next ball will be slower. So you won't get the perpetual motion machine you're dreaming of.
I don't see why not; it's travelling really fast. The problem is that when the ball bearing comes around the loop, it will hit a ball bearing, not the magnet, and won't shoot off the next ball bearing nearly as fast, if at all.
Dont worry im not some idiot who dosent appreciate the components of how life works but It seems odd to me that this one of the most watched videos on his channel.
All of these videoes are just magical. I feel envy like I did as a child
Yes it does. It uses the potential energy of the magnets to create usable energy (as electricity).
What would happen if the ball that's ejected were guided around to become the trigger ball?
Burst fire?
Omg someone do this!
It seems like the ball that is ejected receives more energy than the trigger ball delivers. If so, that's a working free energy machine. Now how to increase and harness it.
Notice how he has to exert some effort to pull the ball away from the magnet? That's where the energy comes from. Like stretching a piece of elastic, he is putting magnetic potential energy into the system, which is turned into kinetic energy (movement) as the ball is pulled towards the magnet.
Perpetum mobile!
What's amazing is that the ball that get's fired seems to go faster than the sliding one.
My best guess is that the magnet accelerates the sliding ball in the last moment and than that force is enough to beat the magnetic tight of the last one. Is that it? ^_^
***** It actually doesn't like he said at the last second the first ball speeds up because of the magnetic attraction and this energy is tranfered to the last ball in the series.
Damian Reloaded Basically the ball that gets fired is already getting pulled down the ramp away from the magnet and the ball rolling down the ramp is already getting pulled. One loses, one wins. I know this is from a year ago but i wanted to explain it to myself too lol
Damian Reloaded Basically the ball that gets fired is already getting pulled down the ramp away from the magnet and the ball rolling down the ramp is already getting pulled. One loses, one wins. I know this is from a year ago but i wanted to explain it to myself too lol
Well you would need a magnet behind the next one to be hit, and since the magnet stays where it was in relation to the other balls, eventually the magnet would reach the front and there would be no more power. But you could make a long one that had quite a few balls and it might work for a while.
To remove it you would have to invest a lot of energy in potential energy within the first ball by pulling it away from the magnet - this actually consumes more energy than the moves ball has in kinetic energy.
It is almost like a over unity machine. He put so little energy into it, and got more out. If you could put the fired ball on a rail and send it back to the top to fire the next one. Friction and lack of replacement balls would probably stop such an idea from working.
1. Make a track to guide the ball to the other side.
2. Get a spring to push the magnet back to the original place.
3. Put a motor somewhere in between.
4. Perpetual energy.
Yes, since the ball bearing is still attached (remember he has to pull it off each time and reset the mechanism) when the ball circled around, it would hit the ball, and one of two things would happen: it may launch ONE more ball in the same fashion, but similar to the final part of the video - it will reach equilibrium when the second ball loops back around, and nothing will happen.
Of course, if you had enough time you could remove the ball and it would go forever, but that's adding energy.
is there enough energy for the fired ball to do a loop the loop and hit it again on the other side?
Similar to what happens in nuclear fission btw. Not quite accurate, but that's also a pile that gets unstable and blasts apart if overloaded under just the right circumstances.
I think there is an actual magnetic cannon that exists in real life. I know there was something like at in that Halo game.
adoboawesome That's a rail cannon. Two iron plates are magnetized, as oppose to a series of coils.
Railgun being developed by the US, their motto, "Velocitas Eradico", which stands for "I, who am speed eradicate"
adoboawesome guass cannon on a worthog in halo wich follows this physics and the rail gun with is a complex gun then a m.a.c. wich is even more complex
adoboawesome Guass rifles work, you can actually make one yourself rather easily.
....
GAUSS.
CARL FRED MOTHERFUCKING GAUSS IS HIS NAME.
Gauss guns and coil guns are the same thing. They're pitifully simple. A wire is wrapped around the barrel of the weapon, electric charge is sent through the wire and timed to activate one series of coils after the other to pull the projectile forward. Projectile speeds up fast enough to kill out the end, person on receiving end dies. The end.
Much like real guns, no physics degree is required to figure out how they work.. how well they work is another story.
I have wondered for a long time: Why are steel balls called ball bearings? If the balls came out of a ball bearing the logical word would be bearing balls, not ball bearings. Or are they used as bearings for something I don't know of?
Sablatnic they are called ball bearings because they are balls that are near perfect roundness which are used in a bearing race or so called ball bearing, called so because it is weight or force bearing, some bearings are made from softer materials like nylon or bronze and these bearings are called solid bearings.
you can also get tapered bearings and roller bearings, but you are right, it is kinda ass backwards named.
Yes, but the magnets will slowly demagnetize as it runs. You'd basically be using the magnets as batteries.
A good demonstration of F = Ma
why?
The mass (m) of the ball bearing accelerates (a) down the slope creating a force (F) via transferred kinetic energy through to the other ball bearings, effecting the one on the other side....F=ma.
***** Everything that exists has a lot more to do with it...It's still a good example of F=ma....That fact still stands despite your need to point out the obvious.
***** Well It's hard to take you seriously given that won't demonstrate or elaborate on what you're saying.
what does full metal alchemist have to do with this video
im 13 and i like sience toys and i think i always will these things are just so interesting
Best Newton's Cradle ever
does this work on the newtons cradle principle?
but the force generated on the last ball is not strong enough to separate the magnet from the ball
Well, there is gonna be a ball in the way, so the magnet will not be able to pull that looped ball in so close and so fast... Thus I doubt the reaction will be as significant.
"What a wonderful life and what a wonderful little person"
Okay, what about a way to move the first ball out of the way and put it at the front?
Day 7. I have no food. Still watching.
So 1lbs hits the ball
How many pounds does the ball that is moved turn into
Dear fellow Fallout fans. This is, (at the basic level) how the Gauss Rifle operates
***** sadly, it seems so. Still an enjoyable video, though.
I only know gaussian blur..
I only know gaussian elimination :(
MaxOnTrack i only gaussian yuno
And I'm gaussian that you guys are pretty smart to know this?? ;D
OH god ;D
No because it wouldn't have the same reaction going around in the circle and hitting the ball next to the magnet instead of just hitting the magnet,
love your videos and btw you're quite popular with the reddit crowd.
But what if we linked the shooting to come back again and shoot another ball?
if that track was a parabola, with three balls on each side, how long would it do that?
So that means the universe can stop expanding and collapse anytime ; ))
Has research ever been done to weaponise these?
when were these videos recorded?
His explanation isn't right... The magnet+balls arrangement is attracted to the rolling ball, the rolling ball is attracted to the magnets, they hit each other and the energy is transferred to the last ball.
Keep going strong please!
Lol, how would that work? wouldn't it have to hit the unique magnet? the round magnet would be in the way if it were to loop...
Careful! Don't let it overcharge!
That's an awesome idea but impossible, since that would be perpetual motion, but I wish it were true as much as you. D:
People - he is a toy collector.
Me- he is a SCIENTIST!
There is no free energy in this system. It is only using the potential energy in the magnets to "generate" kinetic energy. But I just realized a problem that you have to manually move the ball back to the front. :(
gauss cannon?
Halo, Red Faction, or real life?
@@TheKindGamers stalker
can you make a loop so that it will continue in a circle.
Start trying to diagram it and you should see why it doesn't work. After the first few fire off, they'll be in the wrong position to start again. Even in a circle, it would have to be reset.
jonas martin maybe a semi circle vertically will work
No you need one to come from behind and still have the right amount on each side
what are they made of are they magnetic?
mmrutman Gun powder and nitro
mmrutman Gun powder and nitro
? lol ok
mmrutman moms spagetti
It might be able to cycle a few times, but it would wind down eventually.
what happens if you roll two balls down the ramp
The final ball bearing does not fire, he doesn't say exactly why. Cool experiment though.
Gaussian from the nile.
Yes but the magnet will eventually lose its magnetic force over time.
Welcome to the channel where we say extraordinary allot and hike up the price by a dollar every time we do.
How extraordinary
Fuck, Tim. Thank you for everything
dont think this is strictly speaking a gaussian gun but its fun
Good, good...now lets make this in to a weapon!
It's called a gause rifle
Gauss is short for gaussian.
This isn't fallout
150!? You are all amazing!
What happens when you launch 3 balls at one
Wow! I love balls
He did say why. Balance.
"Oh look es taking out some waffle to eat for breakfast. What a wonderful idea."
That's likely because it includes the word "Gun" and people like seeing gun videos.
Pretty good by a stofile!,allmost all newthinking is made by yonger generations.
Best regards.
what is so great about this?
Anyone who's ever played Half-Life knows that's not a Gaussian Gun.
Set about 1.000 of these string, u can reach the speed of light.
+Volkan Kozinoğlu I think you'd reach smashed magnets first
One cannot reach lightspeed...
OMG he starts building railguns
ppl of youtube. can this be made into real gun or cannon. for sciencs
no because of friction
cool!
We need the Gauss Rifle from Fallout: New Vegas
God damnit... Where's my wallet...
Can you narrate my life please?
Free energy device
It wouldn't work because you would end up with all the balls on one side of the magnet
well, at least you tried. :)
I imagine you are correct but the child in me hopes against hope that you are wrong and desires only the INFINITE-MAGNET-LOOP-CANNON.
anyone else read this as "caucasion gun"?
I thought that said Caucasian gun. Oh well
My thoughts exactly! Pew pew pew!
Because bullets are way cheaper...
LIKE IF REDDIT BROUGHT YOU HERE
Why not actually do the calculations using values estimated from the video to find out how much energy the launched ball has, and if it can be redirected back to the top of the track via a loop, instead of just insulting everyone who doesn't agree with your pre-conceived notions? Or is your country so superior at math and science that they have entirely forgone the scientific method?
Why are'nt you my granfarher...........
Via conservation of energy law, no sadly :(
It wouldn't do anything if it did hit.
Ever heard of a rail gun?