imitation-angel
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There is a tube that is large in circumference. Another tube that is inside that tube. Kind of like that cup you took out camping and it you pull it out into a cup and its made of these round plastic rings and they pull out into a cup or press flat.
Electromagnets hold the structure up. It holds the tower up with 7 or 8 points of contact.
The Electromagnets lighten the tower.
And the tower can extend up when in use and then slowly deactivate the Electromagnets to let the building slide back down into itself.
It has tube within tube several times and then it Extends and Vice Versa.
It can ascend and then descend or elevate and de'elevate.
Now Each Segment of the Epic Tower Space Elevator is Lighter by the Magnets on each Section reaching to the Heavens.. that means that the base is not taking the weight but the base magnets are. and they are solid steel.
But, the fundamental flaw with this idea is the assumption that magnets would somehow create "lift" or reduce the weight somehow.
All that those magnets would do is create a repelling force between each other, but the weight of the matter would still transfer to the matter below it... there would be no "lift" somehow created.
Matter already has a repelling force even when magnets aren't involved, which is why your coffee mug doesn't pass through the coffee table... but the coffee mug isn't being "lifted" (which implies that there is some sort of "work" being done), but rather it is merely being "supported", or suspended from below. The weight of the coffee mug is added to the coffee table.
Just as the weight of each segment of your tower will be suspended by the one beneath, and the weight will be transferred down.
Having a base to your tower with a repulsive magnetic field still makes no difference... the weight will still be transferred to the surrounding ground. Magnets do not counteract gravity, nor do they eliminate weight.
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A simple experiment you can perform to demonstrate this:
Take a coffee mug and place it on a scale and weight it.
Then suspend the coffee mug above the scale by placing magnets beneath it with the same poles to each other.
Then weigh it again... you will find that the mug weighs the same... even more in fact, as you will also add the weight of the magnets themselves.