Since superconductors expel magnetic lines of force out of their material, let us imagine we have a pipe shaped superconductor that is 12 inches long with a 1/4 inch inside diameter hole, that has a 1 inch long, 1/4 inch diameter magnet placed 1 inch into one end of the superconducting pipe. This causes all the magnet lines of force from the magnet face that is 1 inch into the pipe opening to run parallel through the 11 inches of superconducting pipe to its open end. All this is in a vacuum. Now let us bring a soft iron pellet that is 1/4 inch long and 1/4 inch in diameter up to the open end of the superconducting pipe so that the pellet is pulled into the pipe opening by the magnetic field exiting the pipe opening. Will the pellet be pulled all the way to the magnets face which is 11 inches away, by the force of the field lines entering the pellets face, or will the pellet only be pulled into the pipe until the soft iron pellet has 'squeezed' the magnetic lines of force together as much as it can?
If the pellet is pulled to the magnets face by parallel magnetic lines of force entering its face, then doesn't that imply that if we built a circular superconducting pipe with a captured magnetic field of evenly spaced circular lines of force and had a soft iron pellet inside that configuration, that pellet would circulate thru the circular superconducting pipe forever?