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 …
29. December 2009 at 6:43 pm
nope, it creates no power, it uses a tiny amount more than it can produce with each rotation, which means that over a long period of time the machine will stop by itself.
Putting any kind of device to use this machines power would cause it to stop very quickly, whilst producing practically no energy.
29. December 2009 at 6:55 pm
There is no friction in space. Earth is not touching anything to slow it down. Perpetual motion IS possible in a space’s vacuum; an object will continue to move at a constant rate indefinitely as no force is acting against it.
In our planet’s environment the atmosphere has particles which act as a force upon any object moving within it. slowing them down.
Although this will not stop the object falling, every machine has friction within it, thus slowing movement to a stop. Questions?
29. December 2009 at 9:59 pm
the amount of energy got out of the machine cannot exceed the amount of energy put into the machine, eg the amount of energy required to start the ball going around the track
as soon as you use the machine above to actually power anything, it would start to slow, and stop very quickly once all the energy is used.
30. December 2009 at 3:49 am
Oh my god. This video is soooooo fake. It keeps repeating. Listen very closely and you can her a voice in the backround every time the ball passes around 2-4 o’clock on the circle. Even in the beginning when the camera pans up you can see it skip. What a dissappointment, and by the way perpetual motion is only possible in a vaccuum, and energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed so it cannot create more energy than it uses. I would know, I have a Masters degree in astrophysics.
30. December 2009 at 5:21 am
Ignore everything except the ball, the rail, the pendulum wires that stick through the rails, and the three red cylindrical electromagnets suspended over the rail. The ball turns on the electromagnet when it contacts the pendulum wire completing a circuit between the pendulum and the rail. The electromagnets give the ball a little tug as it approaches, which is just enough to keep it moving. The power source is hidden. Check the video response.
30. December 2009 at 12:20 pm
You know i find this comment interesting… somebody with a fancy degree once said we cannot ever go past 60mph or we will burn up… Reaching the moon was also deemed impossible by the greatest scientists of the the time. Many things we today take for granted were once coined as impossible by somebody with a diploma, degree… or other form of large ego. My point? My friend… very few things in life are absolutely impossible… this is what we should be teaching our youth. Im 20yrs old…
30. December 2009 at 2:35 pm
Great answer! This kind of motion is also possible here, on Earth – in vacuum. in space is no such thing as gravity, so object will “fly” until all kinetic energy is “spent”. On earth u have gravity, u can easily built vacuum chamber, put perpetuum machine inside and – voila. This is my theory though, but i am pretty shure that this will actually work. GrettingZ
31. December 2009 at 12:05 am
Sorry, Gravity and friction still works in a vacuum chamber.
meaning any machine has forces acting to stop it, gravity will pull any free floating object into the base of the vacuum chamber.
Create a machine inside the vacuum chamber and the friction from the machine’s moving parts touching together, no matter how well designed and well lubricated, saps energy, and will inevitably slow any motion to a stop.
31. December 2009 at 5:23 pm
I didn’t mean to offend anyone but I am simply stating the laws that govern the universe. You cannot overcome friction unless in a vaccuum where no friction exists, and NOTHING is 100% efficient. Body cells are only 40% efficient, and they areone of the most efficient powerhouses that we know of. Let me restate that I have a Masters Degree in Astrophysics, and yes, many people that have degrees were proven wrong. Very few things in life are impossible, and perpetual motion happens to be one.
31. December 2009 at 7:43 pm
Guys,
Don’t take the name of this thing so literally. It happens to be a provocative tittle for a very cool piece of moving sculpture in my estimation.
Were we not surprised when The Never Ending Story did just that.
Thanks
Steven Novak
1. January 2010 at 2:48 am
shut off the power of the museum and come back in 1 week, you will see the ball will not turn anymore
3. January 2010 at 4:01 am
@crackmaster88, sorry to burst your bubble, but the only type of resistance you would be eliminating in a vacuum chamber would be air friction, the friction from the ball touching the track would be there, and so would gravity
3. January 2010 at 6:21 pm
If you could make this ball roll much faster (I dunno how) and make this make energy then we’ll get perpetual engine
5. January 2010 at 11:11 am
looks very interesting!
5. January 2010 at 3:25 pm
obviously not perpetual motion becuase you can HEAR the ball rolling, and the clicking of the machine. there would be absolutely no noise emitted (noise is wasted energy in this case) in a theoretical perpetual motion machine.
6. January 2010 at 2:06 am
this better not be tht 10 second loop turned into 10 minutes lol
7. January 2010 at 3:46 am
How long till the pendulum’s stop? A clock is not perpetual motion. It is a beautiful clock tho.
7. January 2010 at 3:35 pm
I’ve sometimes wondered if you could power a clock from a Foucault pendulum without needing a 3 story house. I doubt that this works like that tho. Even some quite old pendulum clocks run for ages, like over a week, so with modern materials this could go for some time. They probably give it a nudge just before opening time
8. January 2010 at 2:44 pm
my guess video editing thats a loop
8. January 2010 at 11:09 pm
Perpetual motion cannot happen, due to laws of physics that we cannot overcome in our day and age. perfect conversion of energy (perpetual motion) is not possible currently.
this device is incredible, and will probably run for years. However, sooner or later, the friction from the pivots on the pendulums will slow it down to a stop.
This device however, proves that things can be made with incredible efficiency. That in itself is worth of high honors. Excellent Vid.
10. January 2010 at 1:59 am
I can’t help but wonder. If you truely think that this will run forever, then why on earth haven’t you done something useful with it?
11. January 2010 at 7:49 am
I really do not see how you can say that this device is efficent. Can you not hear the noise? That is evidence of quite a bit of loss. So how does it keep moving for days?
Something else is going on here. No way this machine is 99.999% efficient.
12. January 2010 at 2:41 am
a lot of people diss this dude for trying, what have you done? What have you contributed?
13. January 2010 at 2:56 am
It would be efficient if the steel ball itself is a magnet. As long as the magnets have magnetic effect with the magnet ball, it is efficient. It is because there are something called the magnetic domains or Weiss domains. The magnets’ magnetic domains would align themselves to form North and South pole every time the magnetic ball passes by and the magnetic ball’s magnetic domains would too align and sustain its magnetic strength.
13. January 2010 at 8:22 am
don’t magnets run out??