What if the Equivalence Principle Can be Violated?
December 14th at 12:30pm EST Weather Permitting - The livestream link is: https://youtube.com/live/9Pv7_1IVay0
I will be dropping a magnet in the direction of its North to South pole and a control at the same time from a dropbox about 45 ft in the air. I will be recording the free fall times with IR sensors and video recording the drops for video frame analysis in order to get definitive evidence whether or not my past experimental evidence is correct and a magnet moving in the direction of its North to South pole experiences anomalous acceleration not accounted for in humanity’s current laws of physics.
Dropbox in Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMyyL7PX7A&t=4s
Description of Dropbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxjvVVJGnE
Description of Dropbox Electronics Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m79Qvgrx8s
Description of Ground Sensor Net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cikx6KzjFGA
Description of Ground Electronics Box for Sensor Net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHY8jNZo2E0
Description of Magnet Free-Fall Object
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Id_KlXqnQ
Description of Controller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEsQ5Ywi4o0
Purpose of Chromebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyWD0qvmb0g
Previous Exploratory Magnet Free-Fall Experiments
I decided to conduct an exploratory magnet free-fall experiment with one of the most powerful commercially available magnets around, K&J Magnetics N42, 2"OD x 1/4"ID x 1"H magnet with 205lbs of pulling force. I used three different combinations, one attractively coupled, dropped both south pole first and north pole first and two repulsively coupled: NS/SN, SN/NS not to mention a control.
All combinations experienced an acceleration rate measured by a BMI270 IMU of approximately 9.8m/s2, gravity, as would be expected, except for the attractively coupled magnet object falling in the direction of its North to South pole. In this exploratory experiment it accelerated on average 11.1509 m/s2 when dropped from a height of approximately 2.13 meters.
From this experiment I came up with three potential hypotheses to explain the NS/NS magnet's behavior:
- inertial mass is decreasing
- gravitational mass is increasing
- both inertial mass is decreasing and gravitational mass is increasing
- when the magnet is in motion it contracts spacetime at its South pole and expands it at its North pole
Gravitational Mass Experiment
To eliminate the two hypotheses involving alterations to gravitational mass I conducted a gravitational mass experiment with those same magnets and an analytical balance. All magnet objects were virtually identical in mass, about 771 grams.
Hypothesis Behind the Evidence
I think inertia is caused by vacuum fluctuations with a magnetic moment. This would allow a magnetic field to alter the inertia of an accelerating body and explain why my magnet free-fall experiments show anomalous acceleration.
Posted Dec 7, 2025, 11:49 PM UTC