The Escher Machine, The Escher Machine...

[NathanCoppedge]

This is going to take some thinking about. I'll get back to you later when I've had a chance to consider what you've written.

That's a high compliment coming from almost anyone. Thanks for the compliment! And feel free to reproduce any of my categorical language proofs for perpetual motion amongst your physics / and or hobbyist buddies.

More concepts of perpetual motion proof and principles can be found at: http://www.nathancoppedge.com/Perpetual_Motion.html

And, http://www.hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/03/more-exposure-now-possible-for.html

See also the most casual defense of open-endedness: http://www.hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-guide-to-real-working-perpetual-motion.html

[Low-Q]

Do you have a magnetic ramp, SMOT or something under the cardboard?


Vidar

[shylo]

I would guess a magnet located at the top right. What is stronger the pull of the magnet or the pull of gravity?
Find the right balance and perpetual motion could be possible, I have a ramp that raises 10 inches over 2 feet which sucks the magnet in and rolls uphill to the height of the end , the trick is to decrease the magnetic attraction at the end so gravity can do its' thing.
artv

[NathanCoppedge]

Do you have a magnetic ramp, SMOT or something under the cardboard?

Vidar

No, there are no magnets involved in this device. The Master Angle / Escher Machine concept and the Modular Trough Leverage do NOT involve magnets, as amazing as that may seem to those who love magnets.

Neither device has been proven to cycle yet at this point, although both devices seem proven to generate motion from rest with no net loss of altitude.

Thank you for taking interest, by the way.

[NathanCoppedge]

No, there are no magnets involved in this device. The Master Angle / Escher Machine concept and the Modular Trough Leverage do NOT involve magnets, as amazing as that may seem to those who love magnets.

When I say this, don't start calling me the devil. The gap in the cardboard widens, but is supposed to deliver the marble upwards by using a sideways-directed momentum from the backboard, and minimal vertical resistance. If it works, it is essentially using the energy from mass and previous momentum to generate forwards momentum in the same way as a ball that drops along a slanted wall will shoot out along the floor. The unique property if it has one is that it moves upwards from rest.

One of my inspirations is the marble rally game. Another one is metal roofs. And garden ornaments. What really prevents luxury from entering into an object, is one of my questions?