Perpetual Motion Machine. Magnetism & Gravity.

@sAeGeSpAeNe Said

The wearing of horizontal stripes. They make you look fat.

@Willi Said

@Willi Said

if the magnetic field is holding the ball, how can the wheel be heavier on one side?

@sAeGeSpAeNe Said

The wearing of horizontal stripes. They make you look fat.

Technically, the holder of the magnet, and the magnet itself, must be fixed, so that no movement is possible. That is not the case, and the slight variations in the flux-field, brought about by imperceptable finger movement, could be enough to compensate for friction and drag between the small ball and the larger wheel, giving the illusion of perpetual motion....

@sAeGeSpAeNe Said

I also made a serious effort to respond!

@boxerdc Said

It's not that the wheel is heavier.. it's that the ball is being held up by the magnet, and gravity is pulling it downward... so in essence the ball is always falling.

But sooner or later friction will win, and the ball will stop falling because it's stuck to the wheel.

@boxerdc Said

Unless the ball and the wheel are perfect down to the atomic level sooner or later friction will win, and the wheel will stop.

@JR_Sanford Said

The ball could be rubber coated. The magnet could be an electromagnet that could be charged by the revolution of the wheel. The issue being that the ball, wheel, magnet, car, passengers have so much mass that the ball and wheel would have to be giant and impracticable.

J.R.

@Willi Said

i was wondering if there is a rubberband drive belt inside the A frame, a small motor under it.
if it works, why ain't it being used for real?

@twilitezone911 Said

i was hoping to see a little mouse on the wheel or least a hamster, that would pretty cool! willi - seriously, the closer the magnet got to the wheel, two things would happen. 1. the wheel would turn backwards instead forward. or 2. the magnet in the boy's hand would push away from the wheel. the magnet would repels the wheel, not attract it.

@Willi Said

i'm not convinced it works.
the magnetic field holding the ball up should be the same as me holding a small axle, with spinnable wheel inside a bigger wheel, shouldn't it?

@wirelessguru1 Said

Well, you can always make one of those machines since no one is stopping you from doing it...

@wirelessguru1 Said

Look, the magnet can always be bolted...and the wheel is turning as a "reaction" to the ball being both attracted by the magnet while also trying to fall by gravity at the same time, so the ball rotates in one direction and the wheel turns in the other...

@Willi Said

if the magnetic field is holding the ball, how can the wheel be heavier on one side?

@wirelessguru1 Said

Dude, you saw it working on the video and you're still not convinced!?

@wirelessguru1 Said

It is due to the weight of the ball!!!

@Willi Said

no need, i have an imagination.

@Willi Said

how is the magnet not like a string?
it woun't work.