Perpetual motion is a theoretical impossibility due to the laws of thermo-dynamics, but that doesn't stop people from trying to invent one, including me.
My current idea involves much of the technology behind a railgun, which is a weapon that launches a projectile at a massive velocity along a line using the principles of magnetic acceleration. Think a bullet in the barrel of a gun, but instead of gunpowder, it's being propelled along by a series of magnets. My idea was to basically have a more simplified magnetic acceleration array using boring balls and a wooden frame much like this. Instead of having the projectile exit, it would instead travel along a rail returning it to the end of the line, much like a Hot Wheels track loop, I suppose, or a roller coaster. The force of the magnets would propel the ball upwards through the loop, where it would lose momentum until gravity takes over and drops it back down, returning it to the array, where the magnets will then project it forward again. Since it takes little or no physical force to begin the loop, the overall effect is that it doesn't lose any momentum along the straight rail. If you place a turnstile gear in there for it to push as it goes through, much like the paddle on a steamboat, you have the beginning of a very rudimentary motor.
I could build one to see if it would work, but I'm very lazy.
So very lazy.
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