Magnetic Power

The idea behind using magnets to model a self making skin is to be able to easily manipulate them because of their opposite poles. In magnets, like in life, opposites attract and therefore "sameness" repels.



The success of our model will lie in being able to perfectly arrange magnets in a particular order that will cause repulsion in some instances and attraction in others.



Ideally if we can make the magnet "repel" (levitate) over a series of magnets, we can potentially have the moving magnet be displaced so much that by the time it reaches the end of its repulsion, it joins the bottom magnets in becoming a catalyst for further expansion.



In looking at simple videos like the one that follows, we come to understand that our idea is a bit flawed.



In examining the idea with this new visual we come to realize that though we may get one magnet (skin cell) to repel from the one below it, how will it be displaced without another force in the perpendicular direction. Electro-Magnets might be the solution.