A Floating Magnet

BY assuming that diamagnetic bodies are pushed out of a magnetic field, it may be shown that a diamagnetic particle attracted to a magnet by gravitational forces will take up a position in space in the equatorial plane of the straight magnet at a certain distance from the latter. The ‘satellite’ can vibrate elastically about the point of equilibrium, describing a certain curve. The period of vibration in the radial and meridional directions is close to the period of the Kepler rotation of a magnetically indifferent satellite about a body of the same mass. Several identical particles arrange themselves around the magnet. Such a combination of bodies is in the nature of a static planetary system as distinct from the Kepler dynamic planetary system.