As a kid, I was enamored with these powerful magnets my dad brought home from work. I spent countless hours trying to figure out how to arrange them to make one “float” on the repellant force of the others. Just as I’d feel on the verge of success, one would always leap out of position and try to smash my finger.
Decades later, armed with the world’s best prototyping lab, I tried again. It didn’t work and one of the actual physicists we had roaming around told me it was impossible because of Earnshaw’s Theorem. Physicists are always right about what can’t be done. Right up until they aren’t.
Paranetics discovered a proprietary configuration of permanent magnets that has never been done before. 5 magnets in a kind of flower shape, a sixth one floating in the middle. Touching nothing. No electromagnets, no superconductors, just permanent magnets. They’ve invented a “virtual tri-polar magnet.“ North on both sides with South in the middle. Even Earnshaw hadn’t thought of that. The virtual sixth magnet hovers right at the border between the north and south, a spot normally inaccessible in the middle of a hunk of metal.
My mind is still reeling from the implications of this surprising physics discovery. They’ve already built an electric motor using this insight that appears to have world record efficiency over 95%. We expect this discovery to be a leap forward in electrified aviation, drones, automotive, robotics, pumps, fans, generators, valves & transducers. There may be implications for ion propulsion in space travel and magnetic confinement in fusion reactors.
Paranetics is commercializing their technology, licensing to partners who want to develop products for every imaginable use case. If you know people working on anything electrified that moves, now is your chance to show them something magical.