Toddsterpatriot
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A better experiment would be to float 12 magnets on tiny sponges, like your video showed for one, in the leftmost row of this ice cube tray and while they're floating, freeze the water they're floating in.
Next, add new sponges, water and magnets in the next row, rotate the tray 180 degrees and put back in the freezer.
The original ones will stay frozen in place and the 2nd row will freeze with the opposite orientation.
Repeat a 3rd, 4th and 5th time, rotating the tray 180 degrees each time.
When you're done you'll have a pretty clear picture of what happens when the poles reverse.
Your thought experiment doesn't work. The second row would still point to magnetic N even if you rotate the tray 180. Also, you're making the experiment fit your hypothesis instead of fitting your hypothesis to what happens.
Your thought experiment doesn't work
It does. I'm very proud of it.
The second row would still point to magnetic N even if you rotate the tray 180.
Of course it points to magnetic N, that's where it was pointing when it froze.
Now if you fill the third row, put it in the freezer 180 degrees off the previous row,
when it freezes, rows 1 and 3 will point to current N, row 2 will point to current S.
Also, you're making the experiment fit your hypothesis
I'm making an experiment to test my hypothesis. Mine is much better than the clown you linked.
instead of fitting your hypothesis to what happens.
Ummm....you don't fit your hypothesis to what happens, you compare what happens to your hypothesis.
Have you done the experiment? Part of the lesson of the vid was to do the experiment yourself.
>>T: Of course it points to magnetic N, that's where it was pointing when it froze.
Now if you fill the third row, put it in the freezer 180 degrees off the previous row,
when it freezes, rows 1 and 3 will point to current N, row 2 will point to current S.
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All the rows would point to magnetic N.
With that, I'll leave now ha ha.
Have you done the experiment?
No.
Part of the lesson of the vid was to do the experiment yourself.
If I thought it would prove something new, maybe I'd do it, but it's already well known that the poles reverse.
And that the evidence can be seen on the sea floor.
All the rows would point to magnetic N.
Why do you feel that?
Do it with one row. Mark the end of the tray deepest in the freezer N. Mark the end closest the door S.
Magnets on sponges floating in water. Freeze it.
Take it out of the freezer. Add a new row. Put it back in the freezer.
This time, put the end marked S deepest and N closest the door. After it freezes, pull it out.
The painted ends of the magnets will be in the opposite orientation in the 2nd row than in the 1st row.
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Great, try my experiment.
Photograph the results.
Post it here.