Anti-Gravity Cone?!

Einstein thought it impossible: a ball rolling uphill! This new experiment shows, for the first time ever, a ball can actually defy gravity.

The next video released will explain how the Anti-Gravity Cone actually works; what force overpowers the force of gravity?

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[nicholasleclerc]

2:15
From observing this, I want to say that’d be because well, when the rotation of the ball is done by the rotation of the cone behind it, and that it points in a certain direction due to it (visualise an arrow starting at the surface of the ball in contact with the cone and that points in the direction the particles on the basketball at that point are going towards in that instant, and relative to the center of the ball),
When, an instant later, the cone moves it away, so that the direction of the rotation is still parallel to its direction a moment ago, but is now moving West-North-West, since the cone moved it Eastward and it’s a cone, not a 2D surface, or a plane...
Since, at that moment, it points NORTH a bit, it then moves uphill, and then loses energy and doesn’t reach as far as when it first touched the top, and thus goes back down

And because of friction, and because, at the same time, the new direction the cone pushes the ball towards, the ball will change it’s direction to match the *new* West, and that and so it gets carried Eastward and never reaches as high as the previous cycle !
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‘makes sense ?

[NandoG]

2:44 imagine seeing a person gathering up the treadmills only to do this😂

[velijohgis]

The balls rotational velocity vector starts pointing to the centre after 90° turn, the ball uses that energy to climb, accelerates again, turns 90°....

[novapbs]

Woah! This is amazing. I'm excited to see your next video—definitely going to need more explanation!

[Xeno_Bardock]

What i think is happening here is earths gravity/aether is pushing the ball earthwards while the rotating cone is causing aether to accelerate towards the center of the cone. This is because centrifugal force displaces aether outwards creating slightly low aether pressure at the center of the cone which causes aether to accelerate towards the center of the cone pushing the ball upwards with it. So basically aether is going at the edge of the cone first due to centrifugal force and then going to the center of cone due to slight low aether pressure created by centrifugal force. Balance causes ball to stay in orbit instead of getting flung off. Aether is a fifth platonic solid entire physical universe is submerged in.

[billwoehl]

Old timers knew this, look at the old pulleys on the antiques with large flat belts, the pulley is slightly more radiused than the outer edges. This made the belt stay on the pulley, always correcting itself to the center.

[prateekshukla]

I Think it's using gyroscopic precession very cleverly.
Firstly the ball gains angular momentum in a direction downwards the slope and due to the slope there's a torque due to the sine component of the weight of the ball which is perpendicular to the angular momentum of the ball due to which the ball precesses and changes it's direction towards the centre of the cone and climbs up there.

[WhatThePhysics]

Next video will explain how it works using a record player and a 4 treadmills!

[waterfuel]

Several years ago, a website shut down after only 1 1/2 months. A test was shown of weight loss of a thermocouple setting on a sensitive digital weigh scale. The zero setting was done. Then power was switched on to the themocouple. Why was this shut down? I did research and found out 2 others had figured out similar method. There was a french scientist who used 2 slabs of different metals sandwiched together hooked to an oscillator. The other was a researcher in Pa. in late 1800's called John Keely. He worked with thermocouples and thermopiles of silver, gold, and platinum wires, and was able to make steel and brass metals lose weight. An old US Patent was on 2 counter rotating large brass high speed discs . The 2 electrical fields generated affected each other, and caused a 3rd field called KINEMATIC. Items in that vicinity had less or no weight. Are you aware of any of this?

[Xeno_Bardock]

No wonder ufo's have cone-like shape on the top side. Also gravity is not a pull, its a push. Gravity is caused by the aether accelerating earthwards at 9.8 m/s2. Earths electromagnetic forces pull the aether towards it from space, aether in turn pushes everything to the ground causing gravity we experience. To make an analogy, its similar to water going down the drain pushing all objects in the water towards the drain. Think of drain as earths electromagnetic forces and water as aether going towards it.

[vaakdemandante]

now imagine it's as small as an electron and it's rotating at the speed of light - surprisingly the math checks out and it's a stable configuration resembling an actual electron ;)

[davis]

My guess without seeing the next video: the center of the cone is spinning slower than the edges. The ball needs to gain speed to spin at a rate that matches. Friction on the ball means that energy has to be gained to match the speed of the edges, but it requires less energy to stay at the same speed closer to the center. It's like water flowing downhill, roughly. The force of gravity is "neutralized" since it isn't stonger than the energy required to speed the ball due to friction, the ball's weight, and Newton's first law.
Increase the angle, the speed of the ball or disk, or reduce friction, and the system wouldn't work. Cool experiment.
Maybe I'm wrong, so I'll watch the next video to find out.

[michaelschuler]

Belts also want to climb uphill . The spinning changes the vector slightly and the balls rotational momentum lets it drive up the hill like a yo yo

[takundamusifari]

if you are spinning the cone in the clockwise direction the ball will go up, how about if u spin the cone in the anti-clockwise direction? i need answers plz after your research

[robertc]

Gravity is a vibration so fast you don't feel it. It is a wave. We can ride it upwards like a surfer riding a wave.

[ronmartin]

This isn't anti-gravity! It is the friction between the disc and marbles that make the marbles spin and once spinning they will track back toward the center of the disc. Now the gyro is a device that is anti-gravity. You can place a heavy gyro on the end of a long pole, spin it up and lift the pole and gyro easily even when you couldn't lift both before the gyro was spun up. The inertia of the spinning wheel acts on the weight of the gyro and actually creates an anti-gravity effect.

[austinjohnson]

The ball is heavier at the top of the mountain where it is displacing lighter air, closer to the bottom of the mountain the air density changes and the buoyancy changes. If you are calling Buoyancy anti-gravity than a sail boat is an anti-gravity sea vessel.

[joepaxton]

So before i watch the explanation i think what is happening is the ball is creating sideways and once the ball has spun around the cone to the point that the spin of the ball is facong towards the top of the cone it then begons to move up

[brianclark]

Momentum is generated like a rollercoaster the energy in going down is used to go up except now you're powering it

[quakeu]

My theory is that the out side contact point of the ball has to travel more than the inside, making the ball constantly move toward the top point.