Accelerometer using dimagnetic levitation

An accelerometer without internal mechanical attachments, the accelerometer comprising:

• a housing;
• three parallel substantially cylindrical magnets fixed within the housing, each substantially cylindrical magnet having a long axis extending through the housing and a cylindrical cross-section, the cylindrical cross-sections of the cylindrical magnets organized to form an equilateral triangle formation, the magnetization of the cylindrical magnets tangential to the equilateral triangle formation;
• a diamagnetic mass object, the diamagnetic mass levitating within the three parallel substantially cylindrical magnets by the magnetization of the substantially cylindrical magnets at an equilibrium position near the center of the equilateral triangle formation and near a central axis of the three parallel substantially cylindrical magnets when no external force is applied;
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• sensors for detecting the location of the diamagnetic mass object when the diamagnetic mass object is displaced from the equilibrium position near the center of the equilateral triangle formation and the three parallel substantially cylindrical magnets by an external force to the housing.