I did not know exactly what would happen if I rotated magnets inside an Electric field. In a conventional motor you are rotating current carrying conductors inside a Magnetic Field. Other motor use rotating magnetic fields that interact with a permanent magnet rotor. No one suspected that current carrying wires would interact with a magnetic field until an experiment showed that moving a magnet in a coil produced electric current. Based on that observation Faraday eventually produced the first motor. I did an experiment to see what would happen if yu rotated magnets inside an electric field, if there would be some unanticipated reaction, hopefully propulsion. I did not expect anything especially but since I could not tell if the experiment had been done before I had to try it. I got two metal plates each a foot square, one was made of aluminum and the other was made of steel. The plates were separated three inches by nylon spacers. Using a TV for a high voltage source I connected the ground side to the aluminum plate and the 20 KV side to the steel plate. A gear motor was mounted on the aluminum plate and it turned two doughnut magnets in between the plates. I tried a lot of different combinations of magnet configurations. I had the spinning magnets have the same and then different polarities. I added up to seven doughnut magnets on the back of the steel plate and tried about every combination and configuration of magnets yu could think of. I tried stacking them and assymetrical arrangements against the few polarity combinations that I had for the spinning magnets. I saw no difference in the reaction as a function of the magnets arrangement. How well did it propel itself? I could not detect propulsion, and looking at the TV I saw no neat patterns on the screen. It was only a qualitative test. Check the video out.
Video of Rotating Magnets in an Electric Field Experiment
