Jump to content

Simple Magnetic Overunity Toy

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Kuyabribri (talk | contribs) at 14:44, 2 March 2011 (article was at VfD in 2005 and therefore cannot be prodded). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The Simple Magnetic Overunity Toy was a device by Greg Watson in 1985 that he claimed was a perpetual motion machine. These claims have been shown to be false.

In the design, a steel ball is pulled up a ramp by an array of permanent magnets. At the top of the ramp it falls, converting magnetic attraction into kinetic energy. Perpetual motion (overunity) has not been achieved with a SMOT. While it has been demonstrated that the ball can be cycled from the starting point of one SMOT to the starting point of a second SMOT (and third and fourth)[1].

References

  1. ^ Simanek, Donald E. "Testing a SMOT". lhup.edu. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_Magnetic_Overunity_Toy&oldid=416740112"