Levitation with the Levitron

We show an interesting commercially available toy that is the highest magnetic levitation device we've seen so far

[Sturrmm]

I wish they made more science based toys like this these days

[WhatKindOfNameNow]

Awesome little demo. While the concepts are fairly basic, this video did answer one question I had, and that was about the hole in the center of the Levitron magnet. I haven't ever gotten to really look at one before, so I wasn't aware of that.

[_Piers_]

@gushhnet

Yes, the removal of the friction caused by the air would let it spin for longer.

[NurdRage]

@Pipewing i did, the week i made them was the only week i ever made them. But people still like to dig that up and ignore the rest of my videos. It seems they just want a reason to hate and don't care that I've stopped. Their problem i guess.

[NurdRage]

@imaginaryswordsman oh no worries, i actually get less trolls than most channels. The few i have are just more prominent because i like to flame them. Then they come back for more. :)

i'm actually very happy with my subscribers and the comments i get. Some channels ten times my size get so much trolling that i would never want to be them.

[NurdRage]

@RB13240 ya see? its a matter of subjectivity. I try to appeal to everyone some of the time by having variety. but in doing so, i cannot appeal to some people people all the time. But i still think doing a variety of videos is important. Eventually i'll do something you like.

[boptah]

It would be interesting if the experiment was done on weighing scales, with and without the spinning top. This could d be a way of proving weightlessness without gravitational acceleration.

[bookey]

@kilroy1964 To be more precise "gyroscopic force" is not a force at all. It is an effect, a human invention to easily describe complex behavior of rotating systems.

[NurdRage]

@kilroy1964 i think i mention that, please read the transcript

[tylerwalker]

awsome i want one lol!! isnt this like a super conductor but without the liquid nitrogen?

[RootedHat]

@HouseholdHacker
why inception?
and this is TOTALLY AWESOME :D

[GMCLabs]

this is a great example of persistence. a mathematician proved this to be mathematically impossible. So anyone trying to levitate 2 magnets was scorned by the scientific community.obviously the mathematician and the scientists were wrong and someone figured this out!

[themassau]

@plavins1 doesn't it create inductive heat from the magnetism, if it is than it will slow dawn after some time

[waptek]

1:13 its not gyroscopic levitation its Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation

[artifactingreality]

why do you have to manually weight it? Why is it that the manufacturer couldn't set it to be the perfect weight for this? I guess my question is: what is the variable that causes the top to need a different weighting in different situations?

[Red-guy-]

that would work onyl if no other forces acted on it. However, that is impossible because of heat's property to move all particles, including air. it is more possible in a vacuum but it would have to be perfectly oriented exactly level with both the base magnet and the gravitational pull of everything around it, except the earth. Even if yo were to do that, which would be incredibly difficult, i imagine there would still be some other force acting on it. So technically yes, but really no.

[boptah]

This is the only way you can suspend a mass in a gravitational field. This is also why there are no man made satellites in space

[michalchik]

gee, there must be a way to put energy into the rotation of the top to keep it going.

[NurdRage]

@YdeckW didn't i synthesize potassium chlorate from household chemicals in my last video?

[BassBoy]

Your channel is awesome!
So are your video's. They're amusing to watch but, normally when i try to attempt them... I blow something up or nearly kill myself. Definatley worth it though.