Homemade Antigravity?

1. Anthony
   March 27th, 2007 at 1:11 am

   THAT NOT LEVITATION!

2. just a guy
   March 27th, 2007 at 1:52 am

   i agree. it's magnetism, if not a hoax.

3. Anthony
   March 27th, 2007 at 2:36 am

   MAGNETISM QUALIFY AS LEVITATION!

   HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/LEVITATION

4. James
   March 27th, 2007 at 4:00 am

   Fake! its done with a couple strands of hair or threads or in the case of the video response fishing line wich can be clearly seen in the upper left corner of the screen.

5. sean
   March 27th, 2007 at 5:42 am

   The batteries aren't part of a completed circuit, the cell phone doesn't radiate energy in a frequency that anything there could harness, and the dime on the playing card has no ferromagnetic material in it.

   Can't be magnetic, can't be electronic. Must be bulls*

6. Buzz
   March 27th, 2007 at 5:54 am

   No product placement advertising here. LOL.

7. Tom Morgan
   March 27th, 2007 at 6:44 am

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktdety24EBY

   Another video response, but this one suggests even *greater* power...

8. James
   March 27th, 2007 at 6:53 am

   The fact that he uses batteries is a decoy: batteries typically do not possess an electric field that extends that far out into air.

   Even if they did, they couldn't interact with a nickel (non magnetic, no charge).

   The big secret to this trick is the utilization of a magician's tool known as invisible thread. The thread forms a loop between the coke can and the CD stack, so that when he drags the coke can, the thread lifts and straightens out. This carries the card upward. The coin serves to keep the center of gravity of the card between the two sides of the loop.

   -James
   Ph.D. Student in physics

9. rek
   March 27th, 2007 at 8:58 am

   "free enegry" in an experiment involving no less than 5 batteries.

10. Cuprohstes
    March 27th, 2007 at 10:33 am

    It looks more like the card in the original has been added using a raytracer.

11. marcelo
    March 27th, 2007 at 10:33 am

    I guess it is quite unlikely that the card sets back on top of the standing batteries in a perfect balance again, as if it had not moved...

12. Anita
    March 27th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    I knew all you smart readers would prove how gullible I am. Anyone have a bridge they want to sell

13. Jason
    March 27th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    Bridge? I have one that's suspended by a mysterious force that doesn't fit our current model of the universe. I'm open to offers...

14. Milo
    March 27th, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    James provides a good explanation. Batteries in and of themselves do not contain or generate electrical current until they're part of a complete circuit: positive to negative (or vice versa). There is no circuit in that video.

15. just a guy
    March 27th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    I didn't know nickles (dimes, etc) were not magnetic (ferrous?). In any case, I'm not surprised its BS. Incidentally, where it might be true that 'MAGNETISM QUALIFY(sic) AS LEVITATION!', it's not 'Anti-Gravity'.

16. astanhope
    March 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    Hoax.

    Try taping a dime to a playing card and see how hard it would be to balance it atop two AA batteries without it falling off.

17. Paolo
    June 6th, 2007 at 9:21 am

    It is a trick:
    The card is supported by two parallel thin threads joined (for example) from the wall to the pepsi, like as a suspended bridge.
    The card is not joined to the threads, but simply supported.
    Initially the two threads lie on the cd-rom near the two vertical batteries.
    Moving the pepsi you can stretch the threads and so raise up the card.
    You can control the movements of the card with the tension of the threads by moving and rotating the pepsi.
    (rotating the pepsi you control the inclination of the card, by stretching differently the two threads)

18. Hal
    August 24th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    Antigravity? http://www.gravitycontrol.org

19. Juma juma
    August 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    He is a biach.
    No circuits no force nothing.
    Tried it. Its all some bull s#!t

20. Sohaib Naqvi
    February 17th, 2009 at 5:37 am

    very nice way to fool others.........

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