How does Nikola Tesla's anti-gravity machine work?

Tesla's Anti-Gravity Machine

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• Has nothing to do with gravity. Electric current in coil generates current in ring. The current in the ring creates a magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field from the coil and so the ring repels the coil and tries to exit off the top of the coil.

• Simple answer: It doesn't. That's just its name. Believe it or not, gravity and magnetism are two totally different and really unrelated phenomena. Tesla's "Anti Gravity" machine uses magnetism. It's no more than a parlor trick, but back then, parlor tricks were popular. Anyway, here's a little lesson on the difference between gravity and magnetism. People get confused between the two probably because we hear about Earth's magnetic field and we assume that, well, magnets attract things, right? And humans and other objects are stuck to the Earth, so it must be a big magnet. Well, this is not true. The Earth has both a magnetic and a gravitational field. I'll admit that I don't know much about magnetism, but I can explain gravity for you. Gravity is simply the bending of space. See, whenever you have ANY matter, it creates a dent in space (meaning the actual space where something is, not the stuff in the space, but the space itself is bent and distorted), just like if you put a bowling ball on a trampoline, it would create a dent, except this dent is 3-dimensional. Anyway, magnetism is created by metals that have all their particles aligned (although it can be created through other ways), and I can't really explain it without showing you visually.

• Dynamic Theory of Gravity Unified Field: I am amazed that people who don't know much about magnetism dare to judge the work of a genius such was Dr. Nikola Tesla. The "Anti-Gravity" machine is, in fact, at the horizon of science. The modern models of unified field theory are just proving that the science we learned has to be reviewed from the different prospective, very much the same as The Dynamic Theory of Gravity, postulated by Dr. Nikola Tesla.

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• In principle this approach is based on a rotating magnetic field, patented by Nikola Tesla, and it's coupling with gravitational field.

• The "Believe it or not, gravity and magnetism are two totally different and really unrelated phenomena." is completely wrong. How do you think gravity works in the first place? The North and South Pole and attracting each other, creating a gravitational pull. The North and South Pole are both giant magnets of the Earth. Therefore, gravity and magnetism ARE the exact same thing.

• Gravity and magnetism are NOT the same thing. The Earth's magnetic field does not attract objects and pull them to its center. The Earth's magnetic field is like a giant magnet. It does have a North and South pole, just like a common laboratory magnet. The Earth's magnetic field is very weak, and generally only affects ferrous and magnetic materials. Gravity on the other hand affects all materials having mass. It affects all materials having mass in the same amount. Materials having more mass exhibit properties that cause them to 'weigh' more on a scale, and feel heavier, than materials having less mass. Magnetism has no effect on a materials mass. It only affects materials that have magnetic properties. The North and South Poles of the Earth do not create a gravitational pull. The enormous mass of the Earth is what creates a gravitational pull. If the Earth had no magnetic materials, it would have no magnetic poles, but it would still have gravity. Objects would still be attracted to its surface. DaytonaHead.
• Agree with you daytonahead. Gravity has nothing to do with magnetism--any object that has mass exerts a certain gravitational force on any other object in the universe.

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