As Bullwinkle said.
Now watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Free swampland, errrrrr beachfront LINKSWARM property, with every one of these here gadgets sold! Step right up, don't be shy.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

I am a scientist and know a little physics, but I ain't laughing at this one.

dude i just saw another machine that has so much promise, check it out:

I ain't laughing neither and I'm smart enough to know that physiks and science go together. Like dog noses and ass.

Good job, nocal. Now show me that thing accelerate if you stop one of the metal balls.

I'm considerably less skeptical about this one than the usual run-of-the-mill magnetic engines. The guy, alsetalokin, has been more than forthcoming in explaining what he did, which magnets to buy, and getting people to replicate this freakishness in their own implementations. He is also shying away from any grand claims, and moving towards testing it in more controlled environments (Faraday cages, tension pulleys). He specifically does _not_ refer to this thing as a PM machine, or an over-unity device.

If you got time, here are some thread to follow up on:

Overconfident's ruminations on magnetic viscosity:
http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=60132&page=1

Comments on this video/implementation:
http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=58463&page=1

Oh, these guys are not affiliated with Steorn, they're just random nuts trying to guess how Steorn's thingy might work if it works at all.

This is exactly how Tesla built the Great Pyramid.

i <3 yt.

I'm not completely sold yet

I think we should have a linkswarm DIY corner for the site so this kind of thing can be posted along with any projects that any of the swarmers have going on.This kind of thing would make a great project for someone who was good at makin stuff,I'm not but i bet some of the swarmers are.

You'd be surprised how few people on the planet are interested in doing things.

great project for someone who was good at makin stuff,I'm not

shock

You'd be surprised how few linkswarmers on the planet are interested in doing things.

fixed

Hey we all can't be perfect like nocal .

You'd be surprised how few linkswarmers on the planet are interested in doing things.

This works too, sadly, and is the part I actually care about.

If any of you believers want to become investors, I have a machine made from a coffie can, a rubber band and a fishing weight that rolls uphill by itself without being pushed.

1903, 'it will never fly'. However, energy can neither be created or destroyed, unless the widget loses mass, it ain't going to spin for long. (or at least until the magnets wear out)

I see tons of energy coming from somewhere to increase the momentum, I hear lots of sound being converted from energy, I assume he's making some more energy into heat in there as well.
Having magnets makes it magic or something? where's the energy come from? the only way you can produce movement with magnets is to introduce another magnetic field.
I get that this guy isn't advertising perpetual motion, but no matter what the purpose of this device I call swamp poop on it. I can build you a simple 4Khz ac curcuit that runs on a AA battery, you could hook it up to a coil, it would fit in a small wheel the size of a stack of DVD's....

Yes, there's that possibility. There could also be a spinning magnetic driver under the table, making that background humming noise, and leading that plastic disk along.

I just wonder why he is doing this by candlelight.

I haven't lokked into how this machine works, but I'm just wondering if the 2 other spinning magnetic fields weren't interfering with the efficiency of the machine.