Ok, now I think you've lost me. The overall magnetic field is the sum of the magnetic fields of the atomic parts, and their magnetic fields are created by their spin. Depending on how those fields are aligned, will dictate how powerful the magnet overall field is.

I don't know what you're asking me. What energy are you questioning? I thought you were talking about electromagnetic energy, but from your insistence, I guess not, so again, what energy?

>But once again I ask, where does the energy come from?
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet
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>>But don't be fooled by the term "permanent magnet". Since all matter decays, no magnet is truly permanent. The term just refers to magnets that last so long that for all intents and purposes it seems they are permanent.
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>>>Where does the energy come from ?
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>>>>>Free Energy is easy to prove, just get a steel plate, set it up so that it perpendicular to floor, then attach a 1Kg magnet to it.
>>>>>It will sit there forever defying the Laws of Gravity.
>>>>>Where does this continuous flow of (free) enery come from.
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>>>>Electromagnetism will decay over time without being renewed from somewhere.
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>>>>>This is one of the things along with gravity that stuff the current laws of physics.
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>>>>>>>Hilmar, All I say is this, keep an open mind, as things are going to change rapidly in the near future.
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>>>>>>Sure. On the other hand, this should be balanced with some critical thinking, to beware of scams or misguided physics.
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>>>>>>The Internet is swarming with self-declared inventors, who claim free-energy solutions. See, for example, http://www.crank.net/energy.html, for some links.
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>>>>>>Of course, it is hard to prove that "free energy" is not possible - but some of the so-called "conservation laws", such as conservation of momentum, or conservation of mass (energy), do seem to be among the most fundamental laws of physics.