LabDad

hahahahaha. It was a joke. I'm sure of it. Must have been.... He can't be serious...

staticlag

Sure, you certainly do know a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvWt...elated&search=

staticlag

the reason why vortex thingys can never work is because they are positioned in the wrong location. In order for a vortex system to be effective it would have to be approx 10 feet in front of the cars intake and about 15 feet wide. This would reduce the pressure differential between the car's vacuum effect on ambient.

As for physically in the intake tube, it would never work.

eviltwinkie

Um...it did NOT affect the FLOW of water which was my point. Also what your video shows is a strong magnet's effect on a pool of WATER. If you had any understanding of WHY it happens and WHAT is happening with water...you would realize that FUEL would NOT produce the same effect. Much less actually do anything to affect the FLOW.

So besides trying to make yourself look smart...all you have demonstrated is that you know how to use google...congratulations...

eviltwinkie

No they would never work because you want SMOOTH air flow and NOT turbulent air flow...

Your attempts to make yourself sound smart only serve to show how little you actually know about fluid dynamics or basic physics. Just stop...seriously, its simply silly.

NotAPreppie

Is gasoline dipolar (vis'a'vis water)?

eviltwinkie

Excellent question...ding ding ding ding ding...not NEARLY as much as water is...

Diamagnetism is also one of the WEAKEST effects...

Real knowledge FTW! haa

tajabaho1

I can't believe people still think all this crap works........its just........beyond......me

staticlag

Lol, if your not in medical school, don't even attempt to think your smarter than me.

The device does what I said it does, in this application it slows down the flow of any polar molecule in its path. Gasoline, being composed mainly of hydrocarbons is polar, as is water.

the vortex idea works as I say it does also.

if you have any questions, take a few more classes and we can talk when you finish 6 more years of college.

eviltwinkie

Just stop...seriously...your making yourself look like an idiot...

Its good your in school...stay there you need it...good thing its medical school too as engineering is not your cup of tea...

Keep trying to make yourself look better tho...some of us are confident enough (read: above) to not resort to "I'm bigger and better than everyone". Keep your eyes/ears open in school and you might just pass.

eviltwinkie

I LOVE all that chest thumping...touch insecure arent we?

If you learn ONE thing its that there will ALWAYS be someone smarter than you. You might be talking to an MIT grad and never know because some people KNOW BETTER than to think they are better than anyone else.

All you have proven is how shallow, insecure and ignorant you really are.

A truely smart individual knows that intelligence and knowledge do not make them better than someone else. Hopefully you learn that lesson one day on your own. Best of luck to you.

SmokeyTheBalrog

^ +1

staticlag:

I have known quite a few doctors, medical students, intern, fellows, residents, etc. Some of the been very smart and some of them have been frighteningly stupid.

In fact if you have studied ANYTHING beyond high school physics and chemistry or even if you had GOOD high school classes (or even better yet had more common sense) you wouldn't believe something so silly.

Nubo

It's a matter of magnitude. Realize the clip you presented was quite sensitive even though it used common materials. Disturbance of an optical surface can be detected down to fraction of a wavelength of light -- check out the Foucault test used by amateur telescope makers -- can detect surface irregularities easily down to 1/8, even 1/20 of a wavelength of visible light, all doable with simple materials -- party like it's 1699.

Compare that tiny displacment of water at rest to the flow of fuel through a line under pressure from a fuel pump. Then adjust for the relative diagmagnetic strengths of the two materials. Maybe the effect is not zero but for practical purposes it might as well be.

SmokeyTheBalrog

On a toasty note,

I may be stating the obvious but it seemed like staticlag just copy/pasted an eBay listing.