Lets please use common sense.

[turbo]

You didn't answer the question.
It was a verry good perspective.

If you would fire the ball with a railgun , the energy still isn't comming from the ball if that is what you mean by your example.

But it sure as hell look's like it is.

Marco.

[Michelinho]

@ marco,

You still miss the point. The power still comes from the magnet, the ball or football is only there because without it you would not perceive the energy in action. You are the magnet in your analogy is the answer to your question.

Take care,

Michel

[turbo]

Okay i see we have a little misunderstanding here.

The Football represents the magnet.

The Force that brings it down is the field it posess.

Marco.

[nightlife]

-[marco]- , if you drop a ball from the top of a building and it falls to the ground, gravity is the energy that makes that happen. Gravity is like a magnet but just has a attraction to more materials unlike the magnet which only has a attraction to iron.

If you throw a ball, you provided the energy.

In the case of the rail gun, the energy the battery's have and the energy the magnetic ball has is coupled together to create the action. It takes both energy's for it to work.
The rail gun could be made from just using two magnets placed in repelling positions. This would mean that the energy would come from both magnets. It would not be as powerful but it would still work like a battery powered rail gun does. As A matter of fact, that alone would prove that magnets have energy.

[nightlife]

PYRODIN123321, welcome to our insanity.

what if magnets are squirting out and sucking in some sort of particles in another dimension, and we only see the effects as a  transfer of energy, there is no vector to the particles they emit because they exist in other dimensions or in all dimensions at once

That would mean that particles would be flowing through a solid substance and that I can not agree with.