Being able to successfully hide the external power source is the key to a really good perpetual motion machine.

"Look, Im not adding any energy to it!" Next shot: shows how he adds energy to it ;). Love this guy.

Rules for creating perpetual motion machine: #1. Always hide the external power source when demonstration is being done #2. Make the fundamental working principle of your machine subtle while explaining it to others. #3. Never forget rules 1, 2 and 3.

The ending to the egg story is that after he cracked the egg, the onlookers said "Well, anyone could do that!" To which Columbus said, "They can now, once someone showed them how." The story has been attributed to tons of people, many who lived well before Columbus. The point was that something which might seem easy to you, once you've seen someone else do it, might be exceptionally difficult for someone doing it the first time.

Leave it to Tesla to decide to one up a historic story by combining two physics principals to create sorcery.

You should have saved this for April 1st! That would have made an excellent practical April Fool's joke!! 🤣 🤣

It’s not a ball bearing, it’s a magnet…..that explained everything right there! 😅

I was about to through all my understanding of physics out the window until I realized he just used electromagnetic forces to do it

There is also another point to the egg rising itself up in the air: The flat lying egg has a lot more rotational energy because its moment of inertia is way higher, spinning around that axis, than in the upright position. It still needs friction to rise itself in that position, but the reason behind it is a simple minimisation of energy state.

Reminds me of those magnetic "pills" that I used in chem lab to stir certain liquids. :)

They actually showed us the egg trick in cooking classes in school. That way you could tell if your hard boiled egg was done. If it was still liquid, it wouldn't stand up.

"if you don't give it any friction, it can't rise up" that's what she said

Plot Twist: *Action Lab thought that today is April Fools.*

All content on this channel is so satisfying for the dormant physics nerd in us

The egg turned upright not because of friction but because any unrestrained spinning object will spin about its principal axis of inertia. This would also happen with no friction if it was spun fast enough that the torque generated was enough to overcome the force of gravity.

it be cool if you could make rings out of magnets, put them around each other and then have them on there and have them spin like that

2:34 "As All Things Should Be" 😂😂😂

1:57 so... Nikolas Tesla made that complex machine only for a joke?

Violating the laws of physics will get you arrested.

"I'VE DISCOVERED HOW TO SPLIT THE ATOM!"

*Great* explanation! Love the content! 🧠👀

3:33 Looks like the egg was actually beginning to stand up just as he cut to another video, lol.

2:16 sounds like Mr. Krabbs walking

Minecraft players: Look what they need to do to have a fraction of our power

I accidentally created a perpetual motion machine once. My cousin took a Vyvanse out of a buddy's prescription that he left in my room, thinking it was tylenol because it was blue and white, kind of how tylenol is blue and red.. then he went to the ping pong table that had a wall to bounce it back to yourself, and did that for a few hours.

The fly in my bedroo mat night: 0:14

Just before balancing the egg it looked liked like it was vibing to the background music 2:28 😂

1:34 correction, Columbus didn’t discover America. You can’t “discover” something someone else already owns and is using.

2:05 "alternating AC current" 🤔

I love the clickbaity aspect of this channel. With the caveat that it is ALWAYS turns out to be true.

Understanding spin in macro size shapes is useful for understanding fundamental particles at the quantum level. Keep doing it. Did you like how I put a positive spin on that?

"The Hardest Part of making a Perpetual Motion device Is hiding the Batteries (and the motor)" - Elon Musk

Knew it. I knew that a magnet was being used

3:19 "gu-"

I love these things. I have a miniature top that is basically a brushless motor (magnet in the top_. As the pole passes near the coil it induces current to a transistor which switches on and then adds a tiny bit of power to the coil in the correct polarity for the pole (N/S) which is near the coil. The device is very small and consists of a coil, a 9v battery and a transistor. The battery easily will spin the top for days since it only requires power, and only when the top is near the coil. The top spins in a shallow parabolic dish. electronic are all hidden under the dish.

Even if it is perpetual.. The materials used will wear out over time, thus the construction would be rendered not perpetual eventually..

Huh? Initially I was thinking "this is Noble prize level stuff!!!" Now I'm concerned that that is not the case.

The hardest part of building a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the batteries

It was not Colubus that had that idea on how to make the egg stand up. Columbus was not that smart anyway 😂 The expression originates from a widespread anecdote attributed to Christopher Columbus in 1565, but it is believed to have originated with the Italian architect Brunelleschi. In an assembly of architects, which in 1420 discussed whether it was possible to put a dome on the cathedral in Florence, he is said to have proposed that the architect who could get an egg to stand on top of a marble slab should build the dome. When the others could not make the egg stand, he is said to have struck its pointed end against the plate, so it stood. When the others said that they could have done that too, he replied: "Yes, but you didn't!", adding that they too could have built the dome if they had seen his drawing.

Perpetual motion always requires more than one input. In fact, it always requires THREE. Three sources, and they all have to feed into each other at a steady rate, according to design. To answer a future question, the three different sources must of course be differing from one another. Gravity, kinesis, wind, water, flame, you name it. Keep in mind the ratios of input versus output, minus actual output of energy, and you can stabilize the design to where it CAN work.

I initially thought it was something about the ball bearing having very little friction

3:50 The boxes are awesome. If you have a young child interested in science, these do the trick! I ordered the first box (vacuum), and the syringe (for creating a vacuum) was broken, so we couldn't use it. I ordered it for my nephews, on Thanksgiving day. It really was disappointing, but in the end it was my fault for not opening the package and inspecting beforehand. I tried numerous times to get ahold of them to get a new syringe, being a newly released product, and during the holidays it took 2 months before I received the new syringe. Satisfied with the situation, I was certainly surprised when I received, months later, the second box (self pouring fluid) as well! I might be a little biased, but I was still satisfied with my original situation being resolved, and the second box to me shows it's a quality company, and product!

Friction is the enemy of perpetual motion. “ a force is balanced until an unbalanced force is acted upon it” therefore perpetual motion cannot exist.

I may be wrong but I believe the reason is the friction causes the metal egg to begin to rotate around its vertical axis and causes that rotation to continue to accelerate to the rotational speed of the magnetic field which if fast enough causes the the egg to balance on it vertical axis. It’s a bit misleading to say it’s friction alone.

The clickiest of click baits... but I still enjoyed the video haha

I've never heard that Columbus did this with an egg. I've often heard the story that Brunelleschi used this trick to explain how he would build the Duomo in Florence. Vasari gives the whole story. Columbus might have gotten the idea from Brunelleschi.

Perpetual motion of balls happens when you are full angry for something is gone totally bad...

"The hardest part of building a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the battery"

This is awesome! Love the Tesla connection, that guy always had the coolest ideas :-) (Obligatory comment that Columbus didn't discover the Americas, wasn't the first European to visit the Americas, and was objectively a horrible person, but y'all know that.)

I was fooled in thinking this was an early 1st April joke, ... But as always awesome topic!

Actually Columbus never set foot in North America, but even if he had, it would have been 500 years too late.

Lol the frictionless egg was literally rising up anyway right as he cut it ahahahahahah. Totally made a fool of him

Honestly my favorite science/experimentation channel on youtube. Super fun to watch every time.

Love that the oily egg was just about to lift up

3:14 that's what she said

What if you did that with a symmetrical shape, would it still stand on end? If it's an egg shape then isn't the fatter bottom that has something to do with it standing on its end? I mean, maybe not but that's what I assumed when watching it.

Why can I imagine EMPOROR PALPETINE being like: UNLIIMMIITEDDD POOOOWWAAAHHH 😂😂😂

Amazing content! Perfect follow up from your last video!

Use this as a tool to create energy. Create a ferris wheel with little cups as the seats on the ferris wheel with red mercury poured into all the little cups. Then place gold and garlic strategically on opposite sides of the cup torepeland pull the ferris wheel causing it to spin...so the ferris wheel continues to rotate. Good idea for a perpetual motion machine

“The ‘spin’ energy Johnny!”

Perpetual motion: this weapon gains bonus Stability handling and reload speed while the wielder is in motion

Supposedly there’s a solid theory of being able to use the gravitational pull of a black hole for a p motion device. But on such a massive that scale it’s I wonder if a PMotion device would even be usable or relevant, or if we could just harness energy more effectively. Always blows my mind how all complex life ( as we know it) is produced by a fraction of the suns energy.

Ho hum, I think a perpetual motion machine is also defined as something that doesn’t require an external power source to keep the motion going.

Fun Fact: Perpetual motion violates the first and second laws of thermodynamics, which are fundamental principles of physics. The first law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. The second law states that the total amount of entropy (or disorder) in a closed system can never decrease, and in fact, always increases over time.

How is I actually doing this 0:59

Your videos are so amazing, so easy to listen to and you can easily remember what happens because its explained so well!

christopher colombus: look i made an egg balance nikola tesla: shut up (creates technology i could never comprehend)

It is not friction! It is balance and momentum. The spinning is caused by the Eva’s attempt to succum to pressures from both sides evenly. The ‘friction’ creates enough resistance to make minute changes to the direction of the momentum… as the egg varies from its predictable path, more of its molecules equalize in how they are affected by the opposing forces, and just like a pendulum causes it to over correct and swing past the balance point, where it receives an equal but opposite amount of energy, affecting more of the matter of the egg, at its peak, and providing more energy for it to swing back and over correct further…. This continues until the primary mass of the egg finds the exact ‘0’ balance point between the two forces. The friction just provides enough chaos to create the momentum of the pendulum.

Literally the only perpetual motion video I would ever click on because I knew from you I wouldn't be disappointed. And I wasn't.

Thank you for all these unbelievably great videos, just discovered your videos recently but you’re such great at explaining and making it fun to learn. Thank you for this great work keep it up👍

'Perpetual motion' is defined as starting and maintaining motion without an outside source of energy. I've been working on a true field magnetic drive motor.

It is actually possible to balance a raw egg on end (with no outside help), but only around noontime on each equinox. It takes patience, but it is possible!

Love everything you do. I know it inspires me to want to create the ideas locked away in my 50 yr old brain. I think most people with a little intellect have perpetual motion/energy ideas. If only it were not so expensive? Thanks again for inspiring people and I truly hope that there are lots of school age kids being inspired as well

This man and his work must be protected at all costs

I actually found perpetual motion though: 1) make a machine and hide the power source 2) show it to people on internet and in science exhibitions and earn money 3) keep 2 batteries in the machine and keep replacing them alternatively by buying new batteries from the money you earn Thank me later

Truth is that I designed a motor that ACTUALLY doesn't require any energy to spin. The funny thing is that it is self starting but requires a limiting function because it continues to gain rpms. Basically you have to use energy to get the thing to stop or control the speed.

Where can I buy one?

perpetual motion is possible without any friction or way to lose energy so this isnt technically perpetual motion although I do think this is quite neat

You could use copper coils, magnets, magnifying glasses, aluminum, and the Sun as well as a air compressed vial in order to create perpetual motion. If you align these things accordingly you will have energy free 24/7 Non-Stop. If you allow the energy to build up enough to where you can give off small bursts of energy in order to keep it moving that would also add to the energy. You would have Steam energy, magnetic energy, kinetic energy, solar energy, and all together these will keep a circulation of Natural Energy and you can shut off the electricity and allow the steam itself to generate more electricity as it builds up pressure, you will also have pressure energy.

It's actually quite simple to make a perpetual machine.. all you need is reduction gears, a heavy fly wheel, inverter, generator, water, water pump and gravity.

This is awesome and satisfying to watch, thank you for sharing

Please keep the magnetic videos coming!

Christopher Columbus was known for his quick wit. The example of his challenging another to stand an egg on end,then accomplishing it himself by smashing the end is a great example. Another is this Columbus quote made famous during a heated exhange prior to setting sail for the new world. Detractor prior to Columbus’ voyage: “thee are a fool to undertake this pointless quest.. The world is flat!” Christopher Columbus:”so is your wife’s chest”.

Isn't the spinning of the metal egg going onto the other axis more akin to the Dzhanibekov effect where it's trying to find essentially a more stable axis of rotation rather than anything to do with friction? I imagine it would do the same thing in open air in the absence of rubbing the plate, suspended in liquid or perhaps a zero g vacuum.

0:46 ok, what is hidden under that table?

You said tesla discovered this, your title is a lie

It is less about friction and more about the radial symmetry of the egg and inertia. When laying down, the symmetry is not balanced, yet while it is upright, the radial symmetry is perfectly circular. Equilibrium, or we can identify it as efficiency, is always sought, and the upright position satisfies it best.

Attempting to place kick a football(rugby)without a tee,it is possible to do what the egg did,by spinning the ball flat on the ground it will right itself,while also changing the spin axis,to momentarily stay in position to be kicked.

Could the friction be all that it needed to overcome gravity and fall into the center of a toroidal magnetic field?

I honestly don't know if Columbus did it as well but the egg story was actually used by Brunelleschi, an architect from the Florence of 1420 that managed to built the highest dome in history on top of Florence's Cathedral (and it still is the highest dome nowadays with a diameter of 45m and 116m height). This story has also been illustrated in many paintings where Brunelleschi asks the other mathematicians and architects, who didn't believe his project was possible, to try and make the egg stand on its end but when he revealed how to do it (in the same way as shown in the video) then the mathematicians started to say that anyone could have done it that way to which he responded "the difference is that you could have done it but I did it, and if you wait for me to show you, then you'll be also able to built the dome"

My grandfather was a brilliant man. His 2 sons were also. My father was smart, but very level headed, his brother was a little on the adventurous side. Grand daddy recognized that so he said most everything is possible, but not perpetual motion. He said that it would drive you crazy to start on that road.

Awesome. You've discovered gravity too. Looks good, cool. I like science, you learn anything. I love NASA, super cool. A egg standing up, I like that. Nice work my friend, I've learned tons of it. What if you create a running man figure, you make it never stop running. Just wish I see more

Love your content! Always educational and fun! Thanks!

"I finally discovered perpetual motion...I'm not adding any energy to this ball bearing" *Immediately shows an electronic device propelling the bearing* "This isn't even a ball bearing, it's a magnet" The clickiest of baits from a successful science youtuber. Saw it coming and still fell for it.

Your experiments are very amazing … thanks 😊

Bcse of u i can study Im in class 10 now. Thank u 😍

Even as a young child I instinctively understood why perpetual motion machines were impossible. I am just amazed that there are adults in the developed world who fall for fake perpetual motion machines and invest money in them.

I guess, the closest one in this genre will be a Foucault pendulum. If the motion of a system, like the Foucault pendulum, is enabled by an external force, such as the Earth's rotation in the case of the Foucault pendulum, then perpetual motion in the sense of continuous motion without an external energy source is possible within the constraints of that system. In the case of the Foucault pendulum, the Earth's rotation provides the external force that sustains the motion of the pendulum. The pendulum swings back and forth due to its initial displacement and the conservation of angular momentum, and the rotation of the Earth causes the plane of oscillation to appear to rotate gradually over time. However, it's important to note that while the motion of the Foucault pendulum appears perpetual, it is not generating any usable energy. The motion is a demonstration of the Earth's rotation and the principles of physics, but it does not produce work or generate energy that can be harnessed for practical purposes. In summary, perpetual motion within the context of systems like the Foucault pendulum, where motion is sustained by an external force, is possible. However, this motion does not violate the laws of physics because it is not producing usable energy or violating principles such as the conservation of energy or the second law of thermodynamics.

Sir , all your experiments and lessons are fantastic and easily understandable but WHERE CAN WE FIND THE MATERIALS TO PERFORM THESE ACTIVITIES ? WHICH ONLINE STORE ?

Are the magnetic poles arranged in that sphere just as two seperate neg/pos hemispheres? Also how would the size of the magnet in correlation with the radius it travels matter? Very intriguing video, thanks for the upload!