Perpetual Motion



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Invented by Mr. Reidar Finsrud, the whole machine is placed inside a glass mount, to prevent visitors who view the machine in the gallery from touching it.
A steel ball (about 2.7 inch diameter, 20 pound) is rolling on an aluminum track, about 25 inches in diameter, placed horizontally. Three pendulums, about 45 inches long with tunable weights at the lower end, controls three horse-shoe magnets that the steel ball has to pass by on the track. Embedded in the track is a (mechanical) controlling/timing mechanism. It looks like a steel wire bent into a triangular track, 5 inches long. The ball rolls over it and pushes the wire down through a slot in the track. This affects one of the pendulums and regulates its swinging motion. The steel ball has not stopped revolving for months.
I would like to thank tiroirdelmare for making the footage longer, so you can get an idea of how it works, Thanks tiroirdelmare :)


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Magnets are not ... ( 1 week ago by 2ndKnight)
Magnets are not energy sources and they don't wear out. This is just a piece of art with a hidden energy source, most likely an induction coil, transistor, and battery near one of the pendulums.
Please pardon my ... ( 1 week ago by Madominum)
Please pardon my skepticism, but there's a couple things I'd like to see included in this video.
A clock of some kind, to prove it is not simply a small clip being replayed over and over again.
Weather or not this machine works in a total vacuum.
Looks cool though. I doubt there'd be any easy way to draw power from this without slowing the ball down and throwing the timing off, but it definitely looks cool.
I hate the second ... ( 1 week ago by robzeemob)
I hate the second law of thermodynamics!!!
That's a nice ... ( 1 week ago by snowblood82)
That's a nice concept of magnetism and momentum! But note: when electricity is drawn from this machine, at least the same amount of energy needs to be given back to the ball. Nice video regardless.
On second thought: ... ( 1 week ago by snowblood82)
On second thought: this ball doesn't just gain momentum from it's rotation around the track, but also from rotation around it's own center of gravity. Much like the orbit of a planet. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a large magnet in the center of the machine to 'fool' the ball into thinking it's going in a straight line.
I want to see markings on that ball.
Watch till the end. ( 1 week ago by oogolixoo)
Watch till the end.
Magnets ARE stored ... ( 6 days ago by IamtheLordofDoom)
Magnets ARE stored energy sources. When the magnetic field moves a charge or another magnet, work is done - energy is transferred from the field to the object moved. Every time that happens, the field is weakened slightly. The only work done in this machine is overcoming the friction of the pendulum joints and the ball rolling on the wire track - not much work is being done here. So the high-strength 'permanent' magnets will keep this going a long time, I'm sure.
Only if the earth ... ( 6 days ago by IamtheLordofDoom)
Only if the earth accelerates. You're possibly thinking of Foucault's Pendulum?
Magnets are no more ... ( 6 days ago by 2ndKnight)
Magnets are no more an energy source than are springs. A little energy can be stored in a magnet's field just like energy in a compressed spring or rubber band but the magnet does not wear out and one cannot get any more energy out of the field than the energy that is put in to distort it. One cannot get something for nothing.
Man can never ... ( 5 days ago by Yooosername)
Man can never travel faster than 20mph, he will suffocate---Man cannot fly, space travel is impossible, we never went to the moon.
i dont get it ( 5 days ago by mikkyloppy4)
i dont get it
Dude, I've traveled ... ( 5 days ago by trumpetprodigy)
Dude, I've traveled faster than 20 mph on a roller coaster. Oh, and by the way, I didn't suffocate.
OK, tell me how a ... ( 5 days ago by IK1963)
OK, tell me how a magnet is made. And tell me how and why a magnet is attracted to another magnet or iron?
How do you think ... ( 5 days ago by IamtheLordofDoom)
How do you think magnets are made? By forcing the magnetic domains in the magnetic material into alignment - this takes work, ie input of energy. As you use a magnet to do work - ie transfer energy - those domains become increasingly disordered as they returen to their natural, randomised state and the magnetic field weakens. Read up on how magnetic materials are made if you want to know more.
"Magnets are no ... ( 5 days ago by IamtheLordofDoom)
"Magnets are no more an energy source than are springs." - I want to point out this statement is true, and as an analogy for how magnetic domains are moved it's pretty good. It just takes a lot of energy to move them, and the springyness is in the field (it readily returns the energy done in working against it) rather than the domains, but if you keep using the field to create energy, the field *has* to eventually weaken. In this PMM, you must realise the low level of work being done in fact.
Energy has mass. A ... ( 4 days ago by BriDirt)
Energy has mass. A spring that is coiled weighs more than a spring that is not coiled. Strange to think of it like that.
Cool device. but ... ( 4 days ago by kurtlarvadisinuri)
Cool device. but magnets eventually will loose their magnetism. i dont know if i sound really dumb saying this but an example of prepetual motion to me is the solar system. earth going roatating around the sun in a continues form nonstop. i reckon that thought holds the key to prepetual motion.
Its not perpetual ... ( 4 days ago by bionicbeatboy)
Its not perpetual motion because thats impossible! However it is about 99.5% efficient and losses only 1/25 of a second per day in speed! Even if it isnt free energy...it should be something that should developed to generate energy!
Sure it takes ... ( 3 days ago by 2ndKnight)
Sure it takes energy to make a permanent magnet but once made it is permanent as the name implies and it cannot be undone without heating or applying a strong alternating field. One cannot extract energy from a permanent magnet. It is obviously an elaborate toy with an energy source like the "perpetual" gadgets sold in novelty shops that use a hidden induction coil and battery.
10 full minutes of ... ( 3 days ago by ThomasINDs)
10 full minutes of action.
make a video going ... ( 3 days ago by illusionkid54)
make a video going all week, and speed it up so its only 5 minutes long.
This was on a show ... ( 3 days ago by noyoudontyou)
This was on a show i watched and the guy has it locked in a safe.
As the ball rotates it passes under magnets and runs over litte ramps that swing the weights down below.
The track falls in front of the ball so the ball is running down hill all the time.
The track up and down motion is controled by the magnets and weights .
I would like to see someone inspect it for any tricks . But it does look real.
What utter bullshit. ( 3 days ago by smaakjeks)
What utter bullshit.
you say magnets ... ( 14 hours ago by Kinshinlink)
you say magnets lose energy after time and say the key is in the solar system. but just like a magnets pull, planets and stars will also fade away. and if you think about it in another way other than stars or the planets dying off, the reason we are held in orbit is because of other huge bodies of mass pulling and pushing on us without physically touching, a lot like magnetism.




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