All u gotta do is put a glass of chocolate milk under it. And boom. Lol

I was planning to mop the floors then I watched this instead.

honestly, this was better than 90% of what i saw on youtube today.

came for magnetism, stayed for passive aggressive insults ^^

If you put a steel ball bearing at the top of the stack under the shelf you will get it to spin for an even longer time. There are also some interesting things you can do with coils of wire either to control the spin or to generate small amounts of electricity to light LED's. Have fun experimenting and ignore all the people giving you crap. Anything new to you is worth doing and experimenting with.

It's like one of those door stopper things but on crack

WOW! Turns out my wife was cheating on me! Insane discovery indeed!

I have a stack of these magnets. Looks like I’m not going to work today.....

I hope they patch this in the next update.

My wife cheated on me with a magnet.

What's better than the magnets themselves is the sarcastic commentary during the video.

...this isn't an insane discovery... this is a demonstration of basic and already well known properties of magnets... did you graduate kindergarten?

Welp, I know how I'm stirring my scrambled eggs from now on.

Know what pal? you may have just discovered the best egg beater that could ever exist. No manual nor electricity/battery power needed to operate this xD

It looks like friction finally caught up with it.

Thank God you didn't put a slow mo for that..

Well, it does beat watching grass grow.

Now hot glue a small coil on the bottom shelf bellow it with an LED attached, then pass a small jet of air past the magnets to keep the momentum going and you've created a generator.

This is how Magneto stirs his coffee

jokes on you, I'm watching while pooping! Woot woot!

lol Sounds like a mini diesel engine at one point.

YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY RIGHT ROUND ROUND ROUND

you could call it Euler's pendulum haha

I actually DO need to wash my dishes and clean my apartment... but instead I'm watching magnets spin...

Thanks for reminding me to file my taxes mate!

You should call it the annoymatron. I'm trying to think of places to hide these in my colleagues offices and a way to set them going at odd moments.

Hook that up to a wisk for making whipping cream

Thanks for the laugh Monty! Seriously, I really liked they interrogation.

Put a pen or pencil on the end of it, and then a sheet of paper underneath it. World's tightest spiral drawing!

this is so funny. i keep laughing cause it feels like its gonna stop but it doesnt

This is the most stressful video I have ever seen.

thanks for reminding me about the door it was actually unlocked

The suspense of waiting for it to stop was beginning to hurt. . .

discovered magnetism while playing with magnets....

Have the magnet stack pass through a magnetic field and generate some induced electricity

You know your cat was watching right ?

Perfect, surround it with a copper coil. Measure the output.

This is how I stir the cream in my coffee every morning.... but it made so much froth, I flooded the entire downstairs.

This makes me uncomfortably comfortable.

This is giving me anxiety and i dont know why

"experimented", what he means is , " I got high and played with magnets".

All you are seeing, is the energy you put into the system, by moving it, or rotating it. With such tiny friction at the surface, and tiny air friction, and with gravity assisting the pendulum, you should be surprised to see anything else! No mystery here: just a slow unwinding of the energy you dose the system with.

That can put a person to sleep at 4am....

this can be used to hypnotize my two girls to do thier fucking homework

Next type of eco friendly and quiet helicopter?

It's one hour to midnight and I'm scared of dreams, so I'm watching this.

Could you introduce a copper wire into the magnetic field and see if this action would introduce exitacion voltage, that would be cool.

Watched it from work. Don't even regret : that's pretty fucking relaxing.

Basically i have wasted 2 minutes of my life watching a magnet spin round and making the constant noise of my grandmas 1877 plasma 2 cleaner silver edition washing machine...... What a waist of time

I did this when I was 5.

coolest demonstration with magnets ever!

Replicated in a vacuum would be interesting.

If only you could get it spinning inside a jar and pump out the air

No, I didn't switch off the stove. I'm only five minutes into a 12 minute pizza. And imagine the insane discovery of magnetism while playing with magnets. Is everybody on KZfaq a freaking dolt?

The only reason it lasts longer than you would expect and even longer with a larger disk shaped magnet on the glass is that there's a Lower amount of friction relative to the inertia of the heavy stack (pendulum) and the strong field acts as very good elastic. there is also friction from the air. If you try to do work with that pendulum you would be adding more drag to the system and it will go back to the shorter amount of time oscillating before expending the energy added by the persons hand. Electricity Generators experience more drag from opposing fields as current drawn to do work. There is no such thing as perpetual motion, just more efficient systems that approach but cannot reach an absolute 0 loss, where any work derived from that motion is loss from one system to another. Entropy tends to increase...

There's already a Euler's disc that utilizes magnetics to alter its momentum.

Stop drinking? You trying to start a fight or something?

1: Get neodymium magnets 2: Get some copper coils 3:Get a cat 4:??? 5: Unlimited energy!!

Use it to stir drinks.

and what is strange? Its the energy push you put into the mass of the block that keeps it going, duh. I guess you never played with magnets as a kid?

could use it to stir your hot chocolate maybe

should have ended the video right before it stopped and watched the comment section burn

This is a principle called conservation of angular momentum. It's the same reason why an ice skater spins faster as she pulls her arms towards her body.

"You could wash the dishes"... **Looks at pile of dirty dishes** "Or take out the trash"... **Looks at trash** "You could clean out your apartment"... **Lives in studio apartment** ..... are.. are you watching me? (-_- ) ( -_-)

It does this because the stack set in motion is trying to ride a giant bidirectional dielectric current called a hypertrochoid in which mass is heavily alleviated. Because mass is not completely negated and resistance is in consideration, there is a tapering amount of time in which the stack will slowly lose its ability to ride the inertia placed upon it.

this is more intense than batman v superman

Extend the swinging all magnet pendulum and see if it swings longer.

Closest thing to a perpetual motion machine yet

with the last 3 minutes I questioned my life several times..

extremely effecient energy storage device.

You discovered how magnets work, Congratulations.

The magnetic field has the mechanical characteristics of a gyroscope and the stack of magnets is moving in the polar vortex at the poles of the magnet. This is why a battery and a wire spin on a magnet. The key to over unity is to come up with a configuration to tap the already spinning field and convert it to mechanical kinetic energy.

Hook it up to a turbine already! XD

Cool display of physics... funny captions! :)

It would last longer in a vacuum chamber.

Wonder what effect this would have if you sealed it in a zero atmosphere vacuum??

Yes. I watched the entire video..... Why?? Because smart people areusing and expanding their minds to figure out a way to use this someway. You get one 1/4 second action to get 5 minutes of action, movement, or energy output and you can best believe I will sleep on this. And even If I dont come up with something, it was a great brain exercise. Anytime very little effort produces that much output, it needs to be improved and used and sold or marketed. So you guys who are smart, think about this.. Make a our world a better one.. Shits goin crazy..

If I may make a few predictions. This magnetic discovery is nothing more than a magnetic pendulum that swings in a circular motion. It will behave in the same manner as a weight hung from a string swinging back and forth. The energy of the system never increases, and when he starts the magnet off, its the same thing as when you pull back on the weight of the pendulum and release it from height. The weight will never reach out farther than where it was lifted to originally and will continue to lose energy because of friction. That even in a perfect vacuum, this will eventually come to a stop, just as a pendulum will. You can likely make predictions of how long it will spin based on the strength of the magnetic force, and the mass and geometry of the swinging pieces. When I see comments like, why are we not powering our homes with this, it's the same thing as asking why we don't power our homes with a pendulum. It's because we would still need a way of putting energy into the system...and a way of getting the energy out of the system in an efficient manner. Honestly though, I could see it as a possible means of storing energy, temporarily, but the size of the weights and the friction might make it a very inefficient way of doing so. In conclusion, this might not be the breakthrough that we are all so desperately looking for to save our planet. Rather, just a seven minute long magnetic pendulum video with some hilarious commentary and a comment section full of optimistic and hopeful individuals who just so happen to have a little more enthusiasm for science than actual scientific understanding.

That thing just straight kept switching gears

dude... I figured this out when I was 5, and entertained for 10 minutes. I thought this was going to be an actual discovery.

Good to wait cooling beers.

Now try it in a vacuum.

Haha, check all on the list, this was perfectly satisfying! Thanks for reminding me of what it is like to be a bored, penniless, free roaming child.

DUDE thanks. Now I can create Iron Man arc reactor with this.

High force to low friction (metal on glass) means it takes a long time to wind down

if its spinning and it falls, its real life and leonardo is with his kids

The amount of energy it spent moving air, as it spun, may have exceeded the energy it took to start the thing.

You seem to have a lot of time to do what we did in elementary school, waste time playing with magnets....

Subtitles in this are amazing

i was gonna stop watching but then your comments were so funny i couldn't :)

Sounds like a Ford trying to start with no gas.

you discovered magnetism. Amazing.

there is another magnet under the table

Tell me I'm not the only one who actually verbally answered every statement in this about wasting my time....

This is NO discovery. A heavy plate will do the same. You just have very low friction, and thus very low damping because the glass and chromed surfaces in contact are hard!

I know what to do. Slow-mo guys, we need you to check out something....

So you made a blender with no blades that doesn't cut

With little touch the neodymium magnets gave back so much energy, I hope this can be used for collecting .

I CAN'T BELIEVE THE % OF THE POPULATION THAT HAS NEVER HAD TO PICK UP A PHYSICS TEXT BOOK.

i was expecting a jump scare