Linear V-Track Magnet Spring by Brian Berrett

[26jan75michael]

you know what I would like to see. The worlds first perpetual marble run using a few linear tracks to perpel up each leaving to start the run over agian. Someone plz do this, and post a message on my youtube profile.

[MrArrow1961]

@26jan75michael

I am on the way Sir.soon it will be run.BUt it is not perpetual motion motor because it has 10% degradation of magnet force in 1 year!NO 1-st law breakouts:)

[karvakferenc]

Make this track to be full circular for infinity motion!

[brotherboy77]

@karvakferenc have you actually read the description? he did it............

[cyborgtroy]

It definitely would not ever work to produce free energy. There's some calculus of potential energy fields that prevents it.

[craftmatic2]

I think if you have the ball go up the rail far enough, and gain enough elevation, you should be able to have it fall off the other end and enter a chute. From here, have gravity bring the ball back around the other chute (away from the magnets,) in a curving chute with a lower gradient, depositing the ball back at the beginning.

[518schenectady]

you definently can make perpetual motion like this but it cant be a circle. think of a square with rounded edges either having the ball freefall in a tube to the next track or with a downward curved ramp feeding it into the next track. im like 99.9 percent sure u can create perpetual motion like this i would do myself but dont have the funds for it would require 1000 dollars in magnets maybe a little more or little less depending on how big you build it. dont make a circle track wont work

[pinkistoughjj]

How about this. Please tell me if I am wrong, but couldn't you make a circular track (slowly narrowing to keep the ball going) and raise very slightly as it goes (since he proved that it works on a slight incline) and once you have it back at the beginning, have a drop or slope or hill (whatever you want to call it) just to get past the gate? To my understanding and the videos facts this should work.

[idealhomesrealestate]

Looks like the track is getting narrower (i.e. increasing magnetic flux pulling the ball along). If you extend the track it would eventually get too narrow to continue. The table could be sloping down, giving a gravity assist. If the table is level, then the piece of paper only gives a tiny incline (like 1mm) and I'm pretty sure that if you extended the track the ball would not attain a sufficient vertical climb to allow it to "drop" into another "new" track and continue the cycle indefinitely.

[ccyewzi]

Can you do a circle trick for this?

Maybe it can run for a whine?

[Cloxxki]

Looping this ball should be the easiest thing ever. Litterally something an 8 year old could make using only toy materials. Yet, grown men have either failed to make it happen (as the device won't allow for it), or they failed to try. I'd like an A or B answer, please :-)

[Philldapill85]

How about C - you can't change the god damn laws of physics?

[timrocket2008]

@Philldapill85 The Write Brothers did it so you are wrong.

[Philldapill85]

If you knew that a magnetic field is a "conservative field", you wouldn't make such ignorant, arrogant asshole comments like that.

[idealhomesrealestate]

It's A.

[wopwops0482]

Oh man, back to 1997, which was the first time I saw this on the Internet.

[youtuubbguy66]

The magnetic field is weaken because it's actually all used for climbing the ball uphill... which then allow it to cross the final gate?

[InventorGadget]

hmm, ok. Is that a STEEL BALL or a Magnet in ball-shape?

[gazzaka]

use the uphill one I saw and you got it ;)

[gazzaka]

now you have the problem of getting it back uphill

[gazzaka]

gravity

[shubus]

Strining has the "I want to believe!" syndrome. This SMOT device doesn't seem to get hung up at the end of the track, but a longer track is needed to show entrance into and exit from the gate.

[tronicgr]

not parallel.... :-(

[Asymmatrix]

Surely you do not think a circular SMOT will self-sustain or self-start...