My man at Numberphile delivering the goods!

Is it possible that the boxes on the wheel are just full of a Gas that easily changes its temperature, where the top is always a different temperature than the bottom of the wheel? Kind of like how a Stirling engine works with heat or cold. The difference in temperature is what I'm thinking. And the magnets are the decoy .

Is there another episode related to this coming? Would like very much to see what Adam comes up with.

Martin Poliakov’s videos are also made by Brady Haran’s team and are very worthwhile watching. The channel is called Periodic Videos.

All the style of the device is telling that perpetual motion machine is primarily a Lord's privilege. I am not sure if you are not a lord you would want to work on it.

My guess is the box in the middle

There's a guy out near I live who used to make beautiful wooden flywheel-based perpetual motion machines, gorgeous and fascinatingly complex... they used line voltage, though, and the puzzle was simply to find the drive wheel. But they were GORGEOUS...

I remember one story about a PMM where the inventor had it mounted on a desk in his living room, and it turned out he had hidden a drive shaft in a support tube somehow, which ran to a pulley in the wall with an electric motor in the basement. Lol.

I read this comment in elctroboom's voice

That is the thing with any magic trick (or cheating device), where do you hid the mechanisms... and how do you misdirect the audience to not see them.

The funny part is I use my dead AA batteries to run my clock. What other device runs for years off of a "dead battery"?

A calculator?

@@ronnythompson9115 The remote control for a wall-mounted AC unit

A digital watch can actually run for about 7 to 10 years on a large coin battery like a cr2032

I came looking for this comment because that was my exact thought as well.

Adam not being able to find said batteries is impressive in its own right.

That would make it an Over Unity Machine, not the same claim

Indeed.

i was thinking it may be under vacuum, until he smacked it and the side flopped around

uhhhhhh he tapped the glass with such little force an infant baby wouldn't wake up from it, not sure what you think he punched the shit out of

The ‘80s were ancient???

@@harrylane4 That hurts, because then I'm ancient myself

That's funny. I've got one too, but I keep it outside my house. From where I stand it's pretty slow; takes about 365 days plus 6 hours to make one revolution. Haven't had to service in years, it just keeps going.

I have one that is so small I can wear it on my wrist, runs for years and so precise that I could even tell the time from its movement alone.

I have one on my wrist too! Unfortunately that lasts for about a day before requiring "servicing" but it has emmence features. It can tell me if I have had electric mail and even send one back. Many other features too.

Mine is hung

i wrote something similar xD

Agreed. Great point.

People who subscribed to the idea of free energy are difficult to communicate with. I knew a guy who was secretly working with this stuff. I don't take if calls anymore.

Or maybe they just need to add more for mod and water for the hamster every 2 years. And I suppose, clean some poop as welo

Her boobs is quite the accomplishment also for many people.

Xhamster has been alive for longer than that. In a small box called an iPhone.

agreed i forget the term but its like the brother of piezoelectrics and its what makes static electric possible, and those are capacitors maybe

Hmmmm... sounds very possible.. even small lithiumbattery can works about 7-10 years. That i can confim the service is every 7-8 years. They telling that in science center heureka in Finland.

Could be the wheel bearings need servicing, they aren't something that lasts forever, and 2 years is a long time to always be spinning.

The three magnetic on the wheels are repealing the two U shaped static magnets and that move the wheel

Have you noticed that the heat sink uses ni wire but instead uses two copper tubes ? That means its power is coming from a gas. I would bet the gas is a refrigerant which would explain the heat sink being as an evaporator coil. It's turning because when the gas cools and heats in a cycle it causes an unseen rotation of invisible gas which causes the wheel to turn. So why two years. ? Most R 12 family refrigerants wont last two years in such a small amount. Why ? The gas leaks out of tiny microscopic holes in Pipes, Glass or Plexi causing it to slow down or stop.

Exactly. That immediately negates the alure. A “machine that moves for a few months without external intervention” is hardly newsworthy…

I think it’s funny.

It’s impressive how efficient they made it. Obviously toy can make the moving parts smaller and slower, or add more energy storage, but that makes the “hide the batteries” part of building a perpetual motion machine harder. I don’t think the “regular maintenance” revealing that it isn’t perpetual is that detracting, especially considering that we already know “perpetual motion” is impossible (in decoherent systems anyways, there might be quantum mechanical phenomena that one would like to call perpetual, but they require very special conditions and aren’t really possible to create (it’s literally impossible to shield a system from neutrinos, for example)).

Well two years, but... Even so

...which means it doesn't exactly qualify as "Perpetual"

"service" 😂😂

in theory, even if the machine did defy the laws of physics, it might still need oil to keep the friction low enough.

@@Forty2de I was gonna say similar. Doesn't matter if we can figure out how to produce more energy than the machine consumes, material wear of the moving parts will always be a limiting factor.

Like changing the batteries.

Same as my car. The service consists of putting a strange liquid into it every 1000km... ;)

It’s no secret that it’s not a perpetual motion machine. The fact that it can move for two years on its own is what is impressive. Yes, there is some kind of an energy storage device hidden in it but it’s not particularly obvious where it is. It’s a feat of engineering that resembles pseudoscience.

So, what they're saying is it moves perpetually every two years.

Whereupon they give it a nice spin and hand it back

Just like magic tricks, we all (hopefully) go in knowing it's fake.

If the physics were not what they are, perpetual motion machine doesn't mean that it's indestructible, so changing parts and fixing wear and tear wouldn't take away from the fact that it magically produces energy out of nothing.

When the device was tested with a meter to measure magnetism, only the middle DREDCO box and the heat sink box showed any magnetism. The "U magnets" were not magnetic and showed no activity. So, either fake or so weak that the meter they used could not detect it?

You call it a torch when you're at The Royal Society mate.

@@sam3317 2 rooight m8

It’s either the Apollo penlight from Luna Replicas or, perhaps more likely for Adam, one of the originals.

@@sam3317 these savages..

@@sam3317 how perfectly rustic

galvanic reactions are a huge problem in general for anything around salt water, it's too bad that it doens't generate enough to harness. Iron boats have big blocks of zinc bolted to the bottom to act as the sacrificial anode. I know of one place where the city put up very nice decorative railings around the boat harbors. They're completely made out of heavy welded solid iron, all dip galvanized. If i remember right, galvanizing is supposed to add 30'ish years of protection. These railings and gates are maybe 15 years old now and they're 90% bare iron with minor surface rust. the salt environment is super harsh.

@@littlegoobie not just iron boats, all boats. Sacrifice your zincs instead of your shafts and through hulls

@@littlegoobie You really don't want to salvage the energy though. It would just speed up the process.

Somewhat difficult to couple the current produced? And if no separation into cells to stack for higher charge, the voltage would just be that of iron, some 1,21 volts. That would not propel a ship. "The redox chemistry of the All-Iron Redox Flow Battery is based on the iron (II) chloride/iron (III) chloride couple at the positive electrode and the iron (II) chloride/metallic iron couple at the negative electrode. During discharge of the battery, iron (III) chloride is reduced to iron (II) chloride at the positive electrode. At the negative electrode, metallic iron is dissolved into the electrolyte as iron (II) chloride; these processes are reversed during battery charging. An aqueous all-iron redox flow rechargeable battery with a nominal cell voltage of 1.21 V and theoretical specific energy of 170 Wh/ kg is a promising low-cost, durable and eco-friendly energy storage system for large-scale applications."

@@littlegoobie outboard motors have been using them since the 1960's, possibly earlier. if your dock/slip has some current passing through it in saltwater from say a shorted dock light, it will just speed up the whole corrosion process rapidly.

Eh, that loose tape oughta keep the secret safe🤣

The tape looked like it needed to be taped (lol)!

also let's be honest, the royal society could just shine a bright light through the closed envelope, take a real high-res scan and then untangle it in photoshop to get to the readable text, without ever leaving any trace.

Gravity, duh

There is nothing in it. David Jones himself said it's only a scientists joke and not a real perpetuum mobile.

I stopped wearing a wristwatch when I bought a cellphone.

@@Temulon I stopped wearing a cellphone when I got a g string.

Sounds like the same person I took my watch to. I had a watch where the little square date changed at mid-day instead of midnight. He was able to repair this fault for only £100 which I thought very reasonable for such complex and intricate work from an expert in these things.

@@glennross85 I stopped wearing a g string when I shat myself.

@@dobythedog I must recommend to you my expert. He repairs my watch every other month or so, because it insists that all months have 31 days. And he charges only 500 SEK for this very involved task!

I'd give him 2 days.

Yes PLEASE

@@iwinnimi there is another video from a TV show that basically gives it away. You could make this in one day.

@@vituperate1005 link?

@@ZANGETSUxPR Or even just the name of the show D:

Would it be possible to use magnets to make a machine move back and forth? I'm picturing the same thing, but with big magnets on each side to pull those large blocks up just a bit. It would only swing back and forth. Ideal conditions would be that the magnet can "hold" less than .0001 MG less than the weight the machine puts on it. Though now working through it myself, a bit will be lost to friction with each pass. Unless one was able to 100% convert the heat from friction into movement, it's not possible. One must add an outside energy force or convert literally all change of state energy within a mechanism to power the mechanism.

Hahaha

@@tylerhorn3712 I've been thinking a similar thing for a whole. Is a body in motion not already in perpetual motion until a force acts on it? So all u need is a frictionles surface. What about a superconducting wheel levitated on magnets?

@@tylerhorn3712 No, because magnets pull equally in both directions. Push and pull.

@@9PlatinumGamer9 I know it's not actually gonna work, but the magnet "holds" .0001mg less than the weight, so it enters a "reset point" on each side. If it went above, it would get sucked back down... but that energy isn't needed. As long as the magnet draws it back up into its "reset" point on each side, it should go on untill the magnet looses strength (noticeable magnetic degradation takes 5-10 years).

I carry a pen light at all times for the anticipation that I may be able to use it just like that.

😂

it was very cartoonish the way he pulled that out

He’s getting old man 😂

As a museum technician/guard, I was extremely alarmed when he slammed his finger into the acrylic, also when he pulled his flash light in the Library/lab, it's simply bad etiquette to do so without asking first(Strong lights are banned in paper/film laboratory which are usually kept in dimmed light or even dark). I like Adam, but the way he was pacing and almost running around the table was to say the least not very professional or typical of museum staff which are extremely careful and cautious with their work. His enthusiasm obviously was bigger than his actual respect for the artefact, which is underwhelming coming from a guy so much into conservation and collection of curios /props.

Haha, this made me guff.

hmmmmmm they didn't claim it's prepetu module, it is just kind of efficient... u jump start it and it goes for awhile.. as for the boxes .... obviously half way filled up with liquid of some sort

@@hectuswectus3645 The trick is the photosensors. My guess is that it only needs a few minutues of charge every week or so to put energy back into the system. Not too unlike how Seiko eco-drive watches use a little bit of sunlight to keep operating for extremely long times. My guess is that the underground storage has some lighting in it, even at a low level. But outdoors or under normal lighting, it basically is a solar cell operating a motor.

Hahahahahhah❤

@@plektosgaming Remember though, this is using solar cell technology as it existed in the 1980's. As the Archivist said, it's kept in a room with no lighting, save for the very occasional opening of the door. Though it's _possible_ that she was being less than honest, I really don't see it - it seems like they want people to make their guesses based on accurate information (or at least on what they can see).

Same thought here. Reed switch requires no power to activate. Battery power is pulsed for a split second into a coil to give a magnetic kick. Just enough to overcome losses in friction of the mechanical bearings of the axle. OR basically a MOTOR.

I completely agree, sound spectrum and frequency could be the keys. Its also very possible this machine is/was a pipe dream. A fluke perhaps, the heat exchanger could also act as a condenser or inverter. Id be interested to see whether the thing works outside of the acrylic/glass enclosure.

It’s also the definition applied to every single perpetual motion ever called a ‘perpetual motion machine’. If one was ever created that went beyond that we would probably call it a ‘true perpetual motion machine’ in order to distinguish it as being something different. It seems convoluted, yet it remains a necessary distinction.

Yes. if that contraption indeed is perpetual, no net loss of energy and no "servicing" is needed. On top of that, no force must be enacted upon its creation to qualify it as perpetual. Smells fishy.

I think that might be why this entire video is built around explaining how perpetual motion is impossible. Just a hunch.

Let me tell you the definition of "speech mark"

@@Joel-bj8om i guess servicing the bearings would eventually be needed even in a real machine.

It's probably a decoy. They wouldn't hand the secret into random hands and "trust".

@@fusseldieb Adam isn't "random hands".

She snatched it back really quick too! 😂

But then they would have to kill him and everyone who watches this video. All too much bother really.

Ahhh but years working for the Hyneman and other gigs have learned him the way of patients...or get smacked on your fingers.

After looking closer at another video, I see no wires coming from the brass buttons. So I started thinking it's positively charging on the pointy end, then draining on the round end kind of causing a bit of a push pull thing going on... BUT! I don't think that would provide anywhere near enough torque to turn that wheel. And it would take really high voltage to achieve anyway. So they are probably there to draw your eyes away from the huge boxes in your face... It's most likely operating on the same principles as a coil gun... A very low powered coil gun. So there's 2 options, either each of the 3 boxes have a coil, a battery and probably something as simple as a well positioned reed switch to turn it on and off as it passes by the permanent magnets, or ferromagnetic material. Or. It's the opposite, the magnet looking things are actually the coils and the boxes have permanent magnets in them.. A hall effect switch would turn the circuit on and off. Then the power supply (batteries) live inside of the heat sink box on the bottom. Of course he could have gotten much more technical with it, but I like the simplicity of the design in my head.. It's good and disappointing! haha Edit: After looking closely at the "magnet" looking things I'm even more convinced those are coils. The black tape is pretty fresh so it has been changed since it was built in the 80's, and if you look closely you can see it kind of rounds a bit at the top, then there's a perfectly flat plain, almost as if someone didn't want you to see winding indents popping up in the black tape. The simplest solution is usually the answer.. But this guy was something else, so who knows what he did! All I know is that I don't want to know! This would have never captured every ones imagination if not for all the nonsense in there haha I love it! The guy was brilliant.

that's my guess too.

Probably not a Hall effect sensor. Those are pretty power hungry devices, esp. if we are talking about ones from the early 80s when this was apparently made. It is very likely there is no fancy electronics in there at all. Something like a reed relay would do the same job with no power required.

I mean, honestly, I’ve got clocks that run longer than 2 years on a AA battery…

Technically, perpetual motion exists on a geological time scale. We call it planetary motion, and it’s quite useful for sending space probes around and out of the solar system. A nice little machine that creates useful perpetual motion? You’re going to have to prove that to me.

The sensor would be the driving coil itself - as a box containing a coil ("electromagnet") passes the fixed magnets, a small voltage/current will be induced which the circuitry can detect and use to trigger a pulse in that coil to produce the kick.

Yeah I would coldly dismiss this machine and her the moment she said it need recharging every once in a while.. that is the whole opposite of a perpetual machine

@@MrParanoyak The fact that it runs for at least 2 years without interference is impressive to say the least. "Recharge" is never used. They mention that it needs maintenance or servicing, but recharge is never said.

@@MrParanoyak Remember, Adam opened his statement by stating that Perpetual Motion Machines are impossible. That's because the our current Physics models show that these machines cannot work.

I also love his passion for discovery and learning. She does say servicing not charging. The mechanism is much simpler. No motors, no batteries. Gravity is doing the work. The magnets slide weight within the boxes. The on the left pulling weight out towards the rim. The right one towards the center. You can see the deformation in the rim as the boxes pass the left magnet. I imagine the servicing is to true and balance the wheel as well as grease the bearings.

It's actually quite simple. You take the machine apart to find the battery.

You would be stuck in a loop!

Actually no. Sorry if I'm not fun at parties, but you technically can measure the speed over and over exactly X hours apart and then plot a graph with the speed decline. If it declines, it's not perpetual motion.

That’s the point. If it never declines you’ll be recording data and graphing forever because you are trying to prove a change that doesn’t exist.

You are absolutely hilarious!!! Excellent point

And she beautiful

​@@TrainerCTZ Oh, yes. So much so. Virginia radiate a gentel, beautiful feminine energy with her calm charming voice

Yeah, I thought that was what this was going to be :(

Thats what I was expecting. Disappointed to find out its just him visiting a museum and speculating

@@erict3728 Yes, but at least the curator was cute.

@@KutWrite anything specific about her that you liked?

@@TheClaw1536 Her enthusiasm.

My thoughts too. If you could accurately measure the angular velocity of the wheel during a full revolution I suspect you would see 6 small increases little 'kicks' if you like. Each one corresponding to the passage of the boxes past the two permanent magnets. The rest of the apparatus is probably just a decoy. I don't know if anyone could use a video of the wheel to do accurate enough velocity measurements to confirm? Probably not.

Great exploitation bro

@@alangreen5858 yeah with enough frames per second it would be noticable I'm sure if not by human eyes but my robotic eyes I could definitely tell you exactly the velocity gained from every kick especially if you could stop it and start it off slowly it would probably be really noticable

Plausible, but then what's the copper pipe and heatsinked silver box doing? Also, why is it that only one person has successfully guessed (supposedly) how the thing works in the 40 some odd years it has been on display?

@@sincerelyyours7538 like he said the pipe etc is a decoy to throw people off

And she's also very attractive.😉

Yeah....her "big smiles..." got me....

She just knows that she’s shitting him, they re spin it every so often

paul and rev3rse here being very classy as always

@Felix thank you! I didnt wanna say it and be a buzz kill but like yeah, by smile I meant smile and by loving her job I meant loving her job.

True

Honestly this one annoyed me more than anything. It's obviously not a real PMM, so why are they pretending that it is? It's a fraud being treated as real, which doesn't seem like the sort of thing the Royal Society would have much interest in.

What I don't understand is why he doesn't have a magnetic compass with him to inspect that with. They're perfect for finding magnets or electric current.

@@peytonmac1131 The guys at the university of nottingham are just massive nerds and probably just decided to make a fake pmm for fun, but they are otherwise very well respected scientists who are all fellows of the royal society, so I imagine this is just a group of old friends sharing a joke essentially

Aye, it's bigclive! I wonder when "Big Entropy" will stop keeping the common man down and let us have our free energy? Then they could become so common we could get bigclive videos taking apart pound shop perpetual motion machines.

I had to go back and get your name Virginia. Thank you.

That letter probably got x-rayed already. 🤣

Her rack is even more impressive 😎

@@jattstud I was thinking 🤔 I'd like to be perpetually motorboating them puppies

@@ericmcdonkey I don't blame you she is one of those rare women where they are not a 10 and maybe a 3-4 but still beautiful and look good at the same time she is very smart

Yes, a thermal image would uncover the secrets.

@@seanworkman431 Glass is opaque to infrared- They showed that on Mythbusters, actually. So you wouldn't see anything.

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 no, that depends of what glass type do you use. There are special glasses to filter IR, there are special glasses to filter UV, both are transparent visually and "just glass". Acrylic is transparent for IR for example but could be opaque visually at the same time.

It's not a perpetual motion machine. It can't be.

@@deadlymecury We are talking about far (thermal) IR which is unable to pass through acrylic (otherwise we would have had acrylic thermal lenses, and not germanium ones).

counter weight mags seems obvious but always need a human hand to restart it

Little space? That whole frame could be filled with batteries.

It's long seemed to me that the efforts to produce ostensible "perpetual motion machines", have a potential value in highlighting efficient, quiet design with compact energy storage. Whether this machine is an example of that, or simply hides enormous batteries or capacitors in the base, I can't tell.

@@sharonheisler1557 the box is not part of the machine. That's a separate thing added for the museum.

@@bearcubdaycare what value in quiet effieciency could this have? This thing has no load on it, so it cant generate or store energy. If there was a load placed on it, then you would see it slow down, and more force needed to turn it to generate the same amount if not more power. When something has to overcome a load/stress this is where noise comes from. If there was a away to avoid loading a system a car's engine would be quiet same with electric motors they all make a whine

The hardest part of watching a video about perpetual motion machines is to not create a perpetual motion machine trying to disprove a perpetual motion machine by talking about where the perpetual motion machine is used to hide from the other machine.

@@orangegherkin3420you hide the real perpetual motion machine inside the fake one and use it to produce the power.

The hardest part about hiding batteries is finding a perpetual motion machine to hide them in.

CHECK OUT THE INFINITY TRAIN IN AUSTRALIA ......🚂🚂

Like we havent heard this statement before. Get original

@@SciFiSecrets you're a tiny solar panel

Nah, they are the vents to the air batteries

@@anggrimunki is that really necessary? And solar panels are basically just LEDs... kind of.

@@SciFiSecrets I have a motion activated light in the driveway that charges via solar panels and when I shine a flashlight on them at night they turn off thinking its day...

That is a temperature meter.

He scammed people out of precious time and admiration. In the hours people have spent trying to solve this lie, they could have solved a myriad of real problems. this artifact and any talk of it is a waste of time and mental resources

​@benjamindeh873 it's really not that deep bro.

@@benjamindeh873 Couldn't the same be said about all art? Are people scammed out of time listening to Bach? Looking at paintings by Cezane? I'd say rather that these things inspire us. Now, David Jones isn't a Bach, but is he at least on the level of a Marcel Duchamp? Maybe. Meanwhile, who was tricked? Anyone who understands physics and mechanics well enough to invent anything useful, solve a genuine problem, knows that perpetual motion isn't possible. And don't people who solve problems deserve art, too?

@@thebitterfig9903 Art is presented as art. Not as some incredible technical achievement which could have very useful applications if solved. This is a scam. The moron who made it wanted people to believe he achieved something he did not.

​@@benjamindeh873 That is a very Ironic statement comming from a Fellow Gamer, because this is basically an Ancient Expensive Sci-Fi puzzle.

The black U-shaped plastic-covered objects at the E-W points of the frame are not magnetic. People took sensitive magnetometers to the exterior of the case (per the game's rules) way back when this was introduced. They're not magnets.

Adam would never go for a type of show where he debunks theories. They'd have to call it "Theory Debunkers" or something. No one would ever watch such a show. It'd probably ruin his career.

@@staticklingon2182 yeah that sounds crazy man, nobody would ever make a show like that. Especially one with with a cute redhead.

A battery would be a very disappointing solution.

@snower13 yeah, magic tricks are generally disappointing when you learn how they work

For sure. Anything inefficient enough to require that amount of heatsinking would not run for long on a battery. Thus they are merely decorative.

but as adam said, there was no way to run power from thos boxes to anywhere else on the wheel (like the hub)

@@snower13 But satisfying in the disappointment. I think I might need to build my own model but I expect that Adam will beat me to it and with better outcome than I could manage... Not that it'll dissuade me! A Lithium primary cell is very energy-dense, easily hidden among all those "components" and it wouldn't be too difficult to manufacture a device that could turn longer than I'll likely live, much less for two years.

If that's the one with three metallic spheres rotating around it's base, I had no idea it was so complex.

Maybe that's what keeps this thing in the video going.

Thank goodness someone else here knows what an Atmos clock is! They are impressive and amazing in both engineering and execution.

@@burtpanzer This does not have the spheres, I think you are referring to the 400 day or 1000 day clocks that need winding. This does have a rotating weight at the bottom. Very similar to this one: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h5yQmKqPrXpe0WQ.html

That's impressive 🙂✔️

There was a phone sex operator that sounded a lot like this gal that I paid $2.99 a minute to hear, so I know where you're coming from 🤣🤣

@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1801 💀😂😂

or is it part of a heat pump generating a small charge from the heat in the room

Probably not. Because it’s a library there’s probably little change in the temperature. More than likely it’s a pulse motor powered by a carbon zinc or other long term battery.

@@jonathanpeters4240 Probably, We know that some sort of chemical battery is being used and a motor most definitely located in the wheel hub.

The heatsinks on the bottom give it away. Anything that uses enough power to need a heatsink would drain the battery to quickly, I agree its likely a decoy. Although it may use heat in some clever way.

magnets are in the pipe i think the wheel is acting as a rotor and the magnets and box are charged possibly by solar at a low power, the two angles of the pipe can allow for more angles of pull maybe

Even the most crazy bearings humans have invented won't keep something spinning for 2 years. It's probably batteries.

@@alexc4924 Alternatively, if the 2 tubes/brushes at the centre actually makes contact (or barely so so that tiny sparks could transfer a small charge) with the plastic buttons, then electrostatic attraction/repulsion could i theory power the device assuming a high voltage - low current battery hidden in the centre box supplies the voltage to the brushes. The direction of motion would then be set at start (by giving the thing a good spin) ans then the electrostatic driving force only has to overcome the friction.

It could be a combination of things, the 'weights' (if they are weights) acting as a flywheel, the Dreadco box containing a battery, imparting a small magnetic repulsion, the light sensors to maintain the charge, and perhaps those copper pipes and box are to disguise a valve on the underside to pull a vaccume in the enclosure, reducing drag.

It’s not in a vacuum. The spokes have a lot of resistance from running through the atmosphere gas. Even a spinning top cannot spin past 20-30 minutes that has more precision than this wheel can achieve. For sure it is using electromagnetic forces that are greater than the frictional drag

No chance it would spin for even a week, no chance at all

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that is a perpetual commotion!

once I learned of the concept in Jr High school (yes, I'm a slow learner) I've always thought that gravity must be a force that can somehow be used to make a perpetual motion machine. I haven't created one yet (obviously).

Lmao I need that in my life

If I did that it would have the primary purpose of getting Virginia to jump on top of me.

@@markwaldron8954 gross

@@markwaldron8954 mark….mark. You have goals and ways to achieve them. I don’t like it. But I respect it.

and some new batteries XD

or maybe just greasing the gears...

Double your perpetual motion machine speed for free!

It would start at a high rpm then

That would mean that it would spin at high RPM directly after service, and get slower and slower over the span of 2 years until the next service. If that were the case, it wouldn't be such a big deal because it'd be more than obvious that it is just freewheeling, but I feel the main consensus is simply "batteries and magnets".

Yup. They have a perpetual motion machine on display at the petroleum museum in Calgary, and it's a very educational display: basically, if anyone ever tells you they've got a system for free energy, you best figure out what their game is!

Yeah, it’s basically just a puzzle. Which is cool still.

Slow the footage down and see if you can measure a kick

@@johnfritzel9833 No kick, motor is elsewhere, there are only coils and batteries in three boxes. Motor is most likely in the center of the wheel and wires could go through spokes. That being said, there is most definite loss of energy by current going through those wires. :D

@@urosmarjanovic663 what are the coils for if not to be an electromagnet? I am talking about an electromagnetic kick

@@johnfritzel9833 Doubt with that amount of inertial moment...they might be finite amounts of induction. C'mon, let's not get into this... they have to take this crap to "service" every three years. There is also heat sink at the bottom. It is bogus.

I'm guessing you've got the location of the magnets and coils backwards. The horseshoe looking things being the coils would mean that the batteries are in the box at the bottom, which would be a much better location for service than in the boxes on the rim.

Yes it's probably the truth no big deal.

Agreed. They are acting as if machines running self contained for 2 years is some great engineering trick. Anything with a big enough battery and a small enough motor will run for years before "servicing" is required.

Not forever. Eventually the system will run out of “boyish joy”. This occurs when he inadvertently breaks or knocks over every last exhibit.

Is it 'The Royal Society' or 'The Royal Historical Society' just in case I ever pop over to the UK on holiday.

@@seanworkman431 It's the Royal BS Society.

@@kwimms okay, you got a good laugh for that one:)

@@rapidreaper could be, but it could also be a million other things, that's the whole point.

no claims its a perpetual motion machine, not even the creator said it was, it's just a fun puzzle for people theorize about.

They clearly say it's not at the start of the video. The interest is in that hardly anyone knows how it actually works and guessing at how it might run for so long. It's a perpetual motion machine in the same way all human constructed perpetual motion machines are, or more accurately, are not perpetual.

PMMs are impossible. It’s just a silly thing people experiment with

*GASP*

@@buddy3852 well, according to known physics.

Sounds like a car salesman during a test drive.

Exactly. I’ve said it all along!

Lol she is a rather cheeky lass

I find her highly distracting. 😏

this chick is stacked!

These kind of devices are interesting because it’s almost like watching someone solve a problem when they are giving the designer more credit than may be owed and offer solutions that are somewhat overly complicated. If you asked Adam to make this as a prop for a film I think he would have given very different solutions. This very much looks like some type of belt is running around or within the wheel through the copper tubing and is likely being driven within that box that looks like it has too much going on.

@@Prism775 I think adam is onto something with the magnets creating a split apart motor. the belt idea introduces a lot of movement and friction to the system, so much so that I wouldn't expect it to run for a couple years without needing new batteries. Adam's idea of the energy being electrical to magnetic introduces very little loss, which could explain the longevity of the spin, and is also dead silent.

He reverse engineered it quick. It's for sure 1 or 2 batteries hidden somewhere giving some sort of power for a few milliseconds to make magnets turn it.