I decided not to get into why perpetual motion isn't possible. Would you like to see a separate video about that? The sponsor is Incogni: The first 100 people to use code SCIENCE at the link below will get 60% offi: incogni.com/science
NO! Because it always descends into comment chaos. It comes down to anyone interested already knows why and the people that don't either don't care or actively don't believe why.
For a second, I was confused and had to double check which channel I was watching. Like, I knew it wasn't Alex, but thought maybe it was a guest host thing or something .
I've watched so much of both channels that it took my brain a hilariously amount of time to figure out what wasn't right with the image I was seeing lol.
Have fixed the captions now to reflect TCs videos. All my videos do have human generated captions, but shamefully they're usually not available until a few hours after publication.
The beauty of this device is that he made the visible components out of such simple materials, wood and steel rails, which automatically disassociate it with tricky electronics. If it had a plastic box base you would immediately suspect that there was something inside it but our general experience is that wood is solid.
@legoduinoThe point was that we assume wood, unlike plastic, is solid. The poster and everyone else watching the video knows there are electronics in the wooden base.
I would preferred an solid block of wood for the base, not an bottom wood layer as its almost as obvious as plastic. You would have to carve out the cavity anyway so just having an base inside the bottom would be a bit more complex but not much and the cover could be metal or plastic making it thinner.
@The8BitGuy I legit laughed at "the magic of buying two of them", and always love seeing you tubers spreading the love. Including you and your fabulous channel.
Cool idea you had there! Have you considered making one using the lorentz force instead, like a little railgun? That would be so freaking cool. All you'd need to do for the rails is make them two separate pieces instead of a loop, and then of course, uh, build the gun part. But railguns for low power applications are actually stupid simple to make. The US Navy is using low(er) power railguns to launch aircraft from the latest generation of carriers, so maybe you could make a themed one?
I started college at 27 because of this thing. Not because i was impressed, but I had to argue with 10 grown man in the lunch room of a construction company why this was impossible and it made me realized it's not where i belong
I legit started wheezing. The use of TC's description style for the music in the closed captioning - in this case "*painfully smooth jazz*" - was a nice touch.
@@erischaos It would've been even better it if said something like "magnetically smooth jazz" (since TC started using adjectives that relate to the topics of the video) 😁
Was not expecting the magic of "buying two of them" would spread to this channel, but was very pleased to see it and the commitment to do the reference justice 😂
I assumed Alec helped out with the background and the template for the credits - since clearly Steve wouldn't steal trademarks (not registered, probably; but these are really good people).
The way I like "perpetual motion" stuff is by looking at them as if they're magic tricks. Of course, the scammy side of it is bad, but things like the one on the video is like a magical artwork. It tingles with your logic, and it got you thinking on how it works. It just looks fun.
Alec and Steve need to do a collab or nine where they play around and explain old and weird science experiment apparatuses with high interestingness in excruciating detail. It should be named Mouldy Technology and it will be magnificent! Edit: Forgot a
That Technology Connections shoutout made me realise I need to keep tabs on both yours and his videos, and thanks to the magic of subscribing to both of them, I can make that work!
@@randomsomeguy156 its an actual green screen, the chair's edge has a bit of green and also on his hair. But its very well done, specially being the first video with it.
@@jek__ I know - it was a joke. Commenters were always saying it was a green screen. I've the tour of his studio, and it's my primary design for the new office I'm working on.
I REALLY appreciate that you added "painfully smooth jazz" to the subtitles of the outro! Part of the appeal of Technology Conmections is to discover which kind of smooth jazz it will be this time!
I wonder is if it's endorsed by Tech Connections.The studio looks very close, was it filmed in Tech Con home? Otherwise AFAIK it is called parody if it is by majority vote looks as parody. Otherwise just copycatting?
@@nolifenerdwhohasnevergotten You can just about make out the green around his hair where the interlacing or whatever it's called fails. Pretty sure Technology connections did a video on that.
Thanks for actually showing this. The only other people who have been “trying” to debunk this device, haven’t ever properly demonstrated it. They acted like they thought people should just take their word on it.
I love the term "perpetual motion simulator." I have an ex whose dad is a "mentalist," basically somewhere between a magician and clairvoyant, but he starts his shows by openly acknowledging you're about to see parlour tricks you could learn on the internet, and criticizing self-proclaimed psychics etc as flagrant shysters. Of course the appeal of his show was he'd been practicing those "parlour tricks" for years and could still leave an amateur wondering how he did it. Always liked that approach Who are you people?! Leave me alone...
I love "magic" even though I know it's "fake". I mean, when performed to perfection it's like watching a violinist or soccer player that has put years of passionate practice into their art. Wonderful approach to tell the audience off the bat that it's all an illusion that simply takes a lot of practice to get to look good.
The difference in height on 2:25 is due not only to friction losses. Part of the potential energy converts into rotational kinetic energy of the spinning ball.
And a part into sound. Energy losses abound. (that's the odd thing about people being taken in by perpetual motion - we all experience the reasons it can't happen all the time, they're just missing that extra step of realisation)
And plain old linear kinetic energy - it's going back towards the platform on the left. If it was to be perpetual by being perfectly lossless rather than by free energy that movement would have to be converted back into downward movement somehow at the top.
Penn & Teller do several routines where after performing a magical effect they repeat it using transparent versions of the props involved and every time I see them do it I'm more impressed the second time because I develop an appreciation of the skill and/or preparation involved in the illusion. I have the same appreciation now for this device.
I always loved seeing these way more than the actual trick, because I always want to know how it's done. Seeing it is so eye-opening that I always get a thrill!
@@daxhopkins7312 People say that you are disappointed when you learn how the trick is done. But some tricks get more amazing when you know the secret. Derren Browns Chess Master trick is one of my favorites.
@@angrykermit3192silly frog, it's not just this toy and the comment is probably older than TH-cam. People like quotes, even if they don't know who said them...this is not news.
No it's figuring out how to use the electrons already in the air constantly spinning (invisible free energy) and using their rotation to power a device.
For some reason I instinctively thought about "thanks to the magic of buying two of them", right before that segment, and lo and behold this dude does that and more. The phrase is so ingrained into my mind with these types of videos that it lives rent free, but never did I expect it to actually happen.
I always laugh when I find out various channels I watch also watch each other, though Steve and Alec have similar enough content it’s not that surprising.
It seems like due to the direct bounce into the hole, less friction affects the ball before sliding down the slope, so that more energy is preserved when the ball is subsequently sent flying through the sky. The ball clearly seems to overshoot at 1:54 due to that rare event of a direct bounce into the hole. Seems like an unpatched (rarely occuring) design flaw that could be due to the changed material in the transparent design. Sick.
Man, I've always felt physics-dumb. Couldn't get better than a C in physics in high school, failed in college (passed the second time but barely) but your videos make me feel less dumb. I just realized how important that feeling is. Thanks, man. For real.
I like how all my favorite tech and science youtubers are aware of each other and watch eachother's content. It feels like one big family in a way lol.
@@jonathangaliano2617 Veritasium, Technology Connections, Tested (Adam Savage), Tom Scott, WIRED, Sabine Hossenfelder, The Royal Institution, Journey to the Microcosmos, Two Minute Papers, Practical Engineering, Stand Up Maths, Mathologer, Kurzgesagt, Vsauce, Zefrank, PBS Space Time, Perun, 3Blue1Brown, Nerdwriter, Numberphile, Scott Manley, Atomic Frontier, Colin Furze, Sixty Symbols, Smarter Every Day, Corridor Crew, PBS Eons, Paul M. Sutter, Stuff Made Here, World Science Festival (Brian Greene), Steve Mould, Medlife Crisis, The Royal Society, Electroboom, CGP Grey, The Slow Mo Guys, Ling Thusiasm, Dr. Becky.
I like the version with the permanent magnet. The rattling back and forth as the ball is trapped is exactly what would happen to *_Wile E Coyote_* if he'd bought a perpetual motion machine from ACME.
"Through the magic of buying two of them" had me looking back at the screen with surprise. The background had me laughing my buttocks off. Engineering Connections does deserve the reference, you guys both make excellent videos!
That feels both more complicated and more elegant than I expected. When I first saw one of those, I had the idea to take advantage of the conductivity of the balls and railing to have the ball complete a circuit between the rails that would supply power to the electromagnet, then I'd simply paint the rest of the rail with a clear enamel or something to break the circuit just before the ball hit the bottom of the ramp, allowing it to proceed through the curve and jump back into the cup. Looking at this setup and the huge capacitors, I get the feeling that I probably wouldn't have been able to get a strong enough electromagnetic pull with just a coil of magnet wire and a 9v battery, so I'm glad to have been spared the frustration.
0:59 That was so natural I didn't even notice what you were doing at first, but holding the shot on your forced smile like that drove it home 😂😂 well done
William's neat device brought to mind Harry E. Stockman's tunnel diode motor. Stockman's motor also uses electromagnetic pulses to keep it going. His circuit is a marvel of simplicity, consisting of only a 1.5 volt battery, two resistors, a coil of wire, and a tunnel diode to spin a magnet. The motor, which can also be rigged to be a pendulum, was written up by C. L. Strong in "The Amateur Scientist" column of Scientific American magazine for October 1965.
For five seconds I was more stoked than I have ever been for an uncoming collboration, but then my hopes were dashed 😩 At least we got some Transparently Smooth Jazz!
It’s lovely to see some serious effort put into drawing attention to the original creator. Well done. On another note, perpetual motion machines have always been such a fascination for me. I was around 10 when I came to understand why they couldn’t exist. Since then I have found it infinitely (pun entirely intended) entertaining to see people try at the impossible, either honestly or with the intention to scam. Thanks for the video.
I have always loved the concept of working towards intractable problems. Just because something is impossible doesn’t mean that you will not find out something useful in the process. I suggest everyone try to square the circle at some point in their life.
When you drop 2 at once, I imagine the second one fails since the electromagnet is turned off “early” by the first one, taking a fair bit of acceleration away.
On April 1st I fully expect that you show us a device like this and just roll with it, explaining how clever it is that the ball is redirected into the bowl again and so on.
"What if you surround the Ballerina in a ring of magnets?" Option 1: The Ballerina finds its functional center and stops moving. Option 2: You wear out your magnets (Which is a thing) making the Ballerina spin for at most 2ish billion years (When the Earth's own magnetic field can no longer keep em "charged")
That Technology Cinnections impresion took me by surprise big time. My brain was genuinly confused for a second as to what i was watching lol. Great one
Had a fascinating conversation with someone who had an idea for a “perpetual power” car. Electric car with a motor that turned alternator that in turn charged the batteries. He was amazed that engineers had failed to find this loophole to date and was eager to stick it to big oil and make his millions. Like I said, fascinating conversation.
while true “perpetual motion” doesn't exist, couldnt “perpetual motion” ideas still extend the life? if you can't get 1:1 can't you try to approach 1:1? x : 1 where 0.9 > x > 0.9999999999999
I already knew that there had to be some fairly complicated circuitry and a battery to make that thing work. I'm glad you showed just how much there is.
Someone once showed me this asking whether it was real, the kick to the ball was so obvious, i asked, you ever seen a ball and gravity move like that, accelerating out of a loop? Great engineering but unconvincing to the eye.
Is it bad that I barely noticed anything being off until you played Alec's outro music? My brain was like "I know this set, I know these lines, it all checks out", and I only realized what you did when the video was already over 😂
The capacitors are probably to prevent "sagging". You can ask a bit more then the batteries can provide without a voltage drop during a burst. The effect would be more noticeable when the batteries are getting low. And in the case of LiPo or LiOn the voltage drop could trigger the cutoff.
I decided not to get into why perpetual motion isn't possible. Would you like to see a separate video about that?
The sponsor is Incogni: The first 100 people to use code SCIENCE at the link below will get 60% offi:
incogni.com/science
yes
I think a lot of people have a basic idea of it, but having its own video couldnt hurt!
Me! I think you have a real talent in explaining complicated things in simple terms. Keep it up!
I'm up to see your take on the whys, TIA
NO! Because it always descends into comment chaos. It comes down to anyone interested already knows why and the people that don't either don't care or actively don't believe why.
The Technology Connections shoutout was spot on. Including the facial expression Alec makes. Made me chuckle. ❤️
Absolutely!
I've used the "magic of buying two of them" phrase in front of my wife to her consternation.
For a second, I was confused and had to double check which channel I was watching.
Like, I knew it wasn't Alex, but thought maybe it was a guest host thing or something .
XD @TechnologyConnections
I've watched so much of both channels that it took my brain a hilariously amount of time to figure out what wasn't right with the image I was seeing lol.
Careful, or soon you'll have too many small kitchen appliances!
heres the boi
sounds about right
I believe that stuff is called Delaware.
It's like Tupperware but just lurks at the back of the cupboard, never to be used again.
You can never have too many small kitchen appliances! My air fryers are best friends and both similarly haunted by the same ghost.
HE SAID THE LINE
this is the crossover I needed
The first Technology Connections bit got me good. But the bloopers, fudging around with the camera remote? That's how you know Steve is a real one 💯
I had to check the captions to see if it said "🎶 Perpetually smooth jazz 🎶"
no because steve doesnt have actual subtitles like Alex, only the YT autogenerated ones
@@t0biascze644 No, Steve does have actual subtitles. But he did forget to include the "adverbly smooth jazz" part.
Have fixed the captions now to reflect TCs videos. All my videos do have human generated captions, but shamefully they're usually not available until a few hours after publication.
@@iout sorry, when i wrote that comment there were only the ai ones 😓
The beauty of this device is that he made the visible components out of such simple materials, wood and steel rails, which automatically disassociate it with tricky electronics. If it had a plastic box base you would immediately suspect that there was something inside it but our general experience is that wood is solid.
@legoduino No shit sherlock holmes
@legoduinoThe point was that we assume wood, unlike plastic, is solid. The poster and everyone else watching the video knows there are electronics in the wooden base.
@oldbloke135 Good point mate, appreciate you putting it into words. 👍
I would preferred an solid block of wood for the base, not an bottom wood layer as its almost as obvious as plastic. You would have to carve out the cavity anyway so just having an base inside the bottom would be a bit more complex but not much and the cover could be metal or plastic making it thinner.
Now Technology Connections just needs to make a transparent, 2D version of something and TH-cam will be complete
It'll be a "perpetual" colab...
He made a dishwasher with a window that one time
@@moderattiOh my God you're right he's literally already done it!
Watch it be a heat pump…
@@moderatti It checks for transparent, but fails the 2D part.
I chuckled at the technology connections parody!
@The8BitGuy I legit laughed at "the magic of buying two of them", and always love seeing you tubers spreading the love. Including you and your fabulous channel.
Everyone did. Like, _everyone_
I wasn't fully paying attention at that moment and I was real confused for a second or two
You're next, you know? Steve will casually fix some retro computer in the next video as a homage.
what is this? the crossover episode?
Nice to see inside the thing! When I saw it first time I thought they made a CGI machine.
You've been watching too much Captain Disillusion. ;)
Btw Steve Mould did ElectroBOOM's job here. THE RECTIFIER!
Your comment didn't blow up yet...
I also thought it was CGI. The ball's movement seemed fake/unnatural.
🤣🤣🤣@@The_Potionist
1:52 particularly satisfying marble in hole moment
Glad you enjoyed it! Making the clear one was a blast!
Cool idea you had there! Have you considered making one using the lorentz force instead, like a little railgun? That would be so freaking cool. All you'd need to do for the rails is make them two separate pieces instead of a loop, and then of course, uh, build the gun part. But railguns for low power applications are actually stupid simple to make. The US Navy is using low(er) power railguns to launch aircraft from the latest generation of carriers, so maybe you could make a themed one?
I really like the look of the transparent one.
thanks william!
You do nice work. Thanks for allowing us all to see how it functions 👍
You did a brilliant job. It looks fantastic!
I felt so much childlike joy from that Technology Connections bit and outro. I am still smiling. Well done and thank you, Steve
indeed! XD
That’s almost cruel, given how hard Alec has worked to convince people that his background is _not_ greenscreened. 😂
That's what makes the joke *so good* xD
Would have been even more cruel if he had used an animated image so the lava lamp would look like it's doing its thing
TechnologyConnections needs to see this, and probably already has.
Doubtless he joyfully gave permission and watched in glee
@@Spectrumnist Two comment down:
@TechnologyConnections 10 hours ago
Careful, or soon you'll have too many small kitchen appliances!
I started college at 27 because of this thing. Not because i was impressed, but I had to argue with 10 grown man in the lunch room of a construction company why this was impossible and it made me realized it's not where i belong
That's awesome dude.
That's brilliant!
Just being curious/nosy:
Is it British or American college?
What are you studying?
The Technology Connection references were absolutely delightful. It's fun to think that you enjoy his idiosyncrasies too.
As soon as I saw the background I had to chuckle. Loved the cheesy credit sequence as well 😁
It cracked me up, LOL.
I legit started wheezing. The use of TC's description style for the music in the closed captioning - in this case "*painfully smooth jazz*" - was a nice touch.
@@erischaos It would've been even better it if said something like "magnetically smooth jazz" (since TC started using adjectives that relate to the topics of the video) 😁
@@HassanSelim0 I did think that, but I still give it an A for effort.
It never ceases to amuse me how many other video makers share my love for Technology Connections.
Was not expecting the magic of "buying two of them" would spread to this channel, but was very pleased to see it and the commitment to do the reference justice 😂
I assumed Alec helped out with the background and the template for the credits - since clearly Steve wouldn't steal trademarks (not registered, probably; but these are really good people).
Two of them files.electrohaxz.host/file/db57321e7222f4c0b625b4411cb549b6/firefox-v-cu-qr-kg-jw-z.png as CRD would say :)
The way I like "perpetual motion" stuff is by looking at them as if they're magic tricks. Of course, the scammy side of it is bad, but things like the one on the video is like a magical artwork. It tingles with your logic, and it got you thinking on how it works. It just looks fun.
This first episode of Mouldy Connections was excellent and I look forward to many more.
Ah, Mouldy Connections.
Like when you find a lost gadget that's had a battery in it for 6 years.
Perfect name!
@@massimookissed1023when I found my original game boy in a box a few years back. Batteries still in it. 😮
Lol'd at the comment, exactly what i was thinking when i heard the credits music 😄
Definitely an upvote for Mouldy Connections, from me, @TechnologyConnections. Maybe, MouldyElectroBoomCliveDotConnections after that.
Alec and Steve need to do a collab or nine where they play around and explain old and weird science experiment apparatuses with high interestingness in excruciating detail.
It should be named Mouldy Technology and it will be magnificent!
Edit: Forgot a
Oh, my. Yes!
yussssssssssssssss!!!!!11111oneoneone
I will subscribe to this and watch every episode!
Mouldy Connections.
And both of them will wear fuzzy green jackets.
Hey @SteveMould and @technologyconnections, are you reading this? Pleeeeeeeeaaaaase make this happen! :D
Somehow I felt proud of Alec the moment you said "through the magic of buying two of them". This made my day.
I've been subscribed to him since his video on flattening the cylinder to invent records.
THIS! YES! my heart was so full for him
Thanks for showing how it worked, I thought it was simpler, like voltage on the wires. Such a pretty woodworking job on the product and clever design.
That Technology Connections shoutout made me realise I need to keep tabs on both yours and his videos, and thanks to the magic of subscribing to both of them, I can make that work!
Wow, that second green screen is extremely well done. The lighting is spot on.
I feel like he's gaslighting us by calling it a green screen
@@randomsomeguy156 its an actual green screen, the chair's edge has a bit of green and also on his hair. But its very well done, specially being the first video with it.
"And through the magic of buying TWO OF THEM!" got me, magnificent call-out and perfectly executed.
It's hilarious seeing people on twitter who believe the device is a breakthrough in "perpetual motion."
Oh hi, Mark!
This has got to be the strangest spot I’ve seen Mark Dice pop up😂
Never expected Mark Dice here, I'm not on Twitter to have heard about this, I'm just looking up random thoughts I'm having on TH-cam lol
Even if it existed you would still need to extract energy from the system to make anything useful
Nice to see you here, Mark! Didn't expect it.
I still think it might yet be possible, but the patents were seized by glowies long ago.
The connections set was a fantastic use of the green screen
Everyone knows Alec's set is just green screen! So a green screen of green screen!
@@craigejacobs It's actually a television set to display colored boxes behind some open-back box shelves. So it's a kind of screen at least
@@jek__ I know - it was a joke. Commenters were always saying it was a green screen. I've the tour of his studio, and it's my primary design for the new office I'm working on.
Love the Technology Connections reference, it was a fun "Wait, what?" moment
Edit: oh shit another one! Nice!
He should of done a big Clive one to get more laffs😂
The toughest part of designing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out how to hide the battery
My Overunity Generator doesn't need any battery.
@@EdgarRoockyes it doesn't, it runs on electricity from live wires
@@EdgarRoock if you can prove it scientifically noble prize awaits for you😂😂
@@EdgarRoockYeah, it only needs live wires 😂
I'm not sure how you could say this after seeing the engineering that went into this design.
“In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”
The technology connections visual reference was perfect. I enjoy it when my favorite TH-camrs give subtle shout outs like that.
I REALLY appreciate that you added "painfully smooth jazz" to the subtitles of the outro! Part of the appeal of Technology Conmections is to discover which kind of smooth jazz it will be this time!
I did too.... but it should've been "Perpetually Smooth Jazz" imho. :)
Looks like someone took my suggestion!!!!!!😂
I love when some creators make a loving homage to another creator.
Yours was really well done.
I wonder is if it's endorsed by Tech Connections.The studio looks very close, was it filmed in Tech Con home? Otherwise AFAIK it is called parody if it is by majority vote looks as parody. Otherwise just copycatting?
@@alexmartian3972he says (in that clip) that he's using a green screen
yeah i just saw that technology connections reference right now.
The green screen was done so well that I thought he was in Alec's studio.
@@nolifenerdwhohasnevergotten You can just about make out the green around his hair where the interlacing or whatever it's called fails. Pretty sure Technology connections did a video on that.
Thanks for actually showing this. The only other people who have been “trying” to debunk this device, haven’t ever properly demonstrated it. They acted like they thought people should just take their word on it.
I love the term "perpetual motion simulator." I have an ex whose dad is a "mentalist," basically somewhere between a magician and clairvoyant, but he starts his shows by openly acknowledging you're about to see parlour tricks you could learn on the internet, and criticizing self-proclaimed psychics etc as flagrant shysters. Of course the appeal of his show was he'd been practicing those "parlour tricks" for years and could still leave an amateur wondering how he did it. Always liked that approach
Who are you people?! Leave me alone...
Huge fan of that approach
Very similar to Penn and Teller's approach to magic. They make it very clear that they are performing tricks that just feel like magic.
You dated Banachek’s daughter?
I love "magic" even though I know it's "fake".
I mean, when performed to perfection it's like watching a violinist or soccer player that has put years of passionate practice into their art.
Wonderful approach to tell the audience off the bat that it's all an illusion that simply takes a lot of practice to get to look good.
a man of culture I see@@lw3894
The difference in height on 2:25 is due not only to friction losses. Part of the potential energy converts into rotational kinetic energy of the spinning ball.
And a part into sound. Energy losses abound.
(that's the odd thing about people being taken in by perpetual motion - we all experience the reasons it can't happen all the time, they're just missing that extra step of realisation)
Exactly what I came down to write.
@@anonymes2884 these is probably a tiny amount of EM energy as well, metal against metal.......
And plain old linear kinetic energy - it's going back towards the platform on the left. If it was to be perpetual by being perfectly lossless rather than by free energy that movement would have to be converted back into downward movement somehow at the top.
@@Debbiebabe69 which is basically friction, no?
I laughed so hard at the "Thankfully, through the magic of buying two of them" bit! Oh man, this is the crossover I needed today.
This made my day!
He really knows his audience
I'm still laughing about it! I love watching his disection/explaination/history vids. And he nailed it.
And then the music and outtakes at the end. Brilliant! 😂
The Magic of Buying Two of Them™
Just saw this thing on Facebook so came to TH-cam to find out how it worked. Was so glad to find a Steve Mould video of it!
Penn & Teller do several routines where after performing a magical effect they repeat it using transparent versions of the props involved and every time I see them do it I'm more impressed the second time because I develop an appreciation of the skill and/or preparation involved in the illusion. I have the same appreciation now for this device.
I always loved seeing these way more than the actual trick, because I always want to know how it's done. Seeing it is so eye-opening that I always get a thrill!
That's because they only show you the interesting ones. If they showed you how most of magic is done, it'd quite disappointing fir many
@@daxhopkins7312 People say that you are disappointed when you learn how the trick is done.
But some tricks get more amazing when you know the secret.
Derren Browns Chess Master trick is one of my favorites.
I like it better when they "explain" an illusion, and in the process, fool you with an illusion buried in the "explanation "!
@@jayhafner7152 "The closer you look, the less you see" kinda thing?
I love the technology connections play!
“The hardest part about making a perpetual motion machine, is finding where to hide the batteries”.
Also loved the Technology Connections references!!
And there it is, the same comment copied and pasted in every video about this toy.
@@angrykermit3192username checks out lmfao
@@angrykermit3192silly frog, it's not just this toy and the comment is probably older than TH-cam. People like quotes, even if they don't know who said them...this is not news.
No it's figuring out how to use the electrons already in the air constantly spinning (invisible free energy) and using their rotation to power a device.
@@timspiker Electrons in the air... invisible energy... I think you mean beta radiation and nuclear power, though the former is not free
It's a nice piece of conversation starter in your room.
"Through the magic of buying two of them" 😂😂
This slayed me. I don't think I've ever actually laughed at a TH-cam video before (I don't laugh easily) but this did it.
For some reason I instinctively thought about "thanks to the magic of buying two of them", right before that segment, and lo and behold this dude does that and more. The phrase is so ingrained into my mind with these types of videos that it lives rent free, but never did I expect it to actually happen.
It was super easy, barely an inconvenience.
@@albert109 Didn't think a reference needed to be difficult.
@@choo_choo_Not getting the reference is TIGHT
the bounce back in at 1:52 is so satisfying
someone should make a looping gif out of it
Very much
It looks like it was going to over shoot after that too
Oh he is the kinetic sculpture guy, damn this might be the first thing he made that's in my price range.
I always laugh when I find out various channels I watch also watch each other, though Steve and Alec have similar enough content it’s not that surprising.
It seems that [we] nerds all hang out in the same corners of TH-cam lol
Its literally the power of friendship.
Be weirder if we found him drinking Prime.
I can't express how MUCH i LOVED the "technology connections" reference!!!! hahaha!!
The ball bouncing directly into the hole at 1:52 is so satisfying
I have one of these (From William) and it’s insane to see and happens really quite often.
That's what she said
I was about to comment the same thing! So satisfying! :D
Couldn't the hole just be made bigger or cone shaped so it does this every time instead of rolling around in the tray?
It seems like due to the direct bounce into the hole, less friction affects the ball before sliding down the slope, so that more energy is preserved when the ball is subsequently sent flying through the sky. The ball clearly seems to overshoot at 1:54 due to that rare event of a direct bounce into the hole. Seems like an unpatched (rarely occuring) design flaw that could be due to the changed material in the transparent design. Sick.
1:52 can we talk about how the ball bounced back into the center perfectly
1:05 Steve you clever bastard. I love Technology Connections and that was absolutely spot on!
the perfect bounce back into the hole at 1:52 was so satisfying
hole in one moment
A crossover I wasn’t expecting but glad it happened.
Omg Steve the frame with the TUTU made me spit my tea! I am loving your videos. You make me feel smarter....thanks Rob
Man, I've always felt physics-dumb. Couldn't get better than a C in physics in high school, failed in college (passed the second time but barely) but your videos make me feel less dumb. I just realized how important that feeling is. Thanks, man. For real.
I like how all my favorite tech and science youtubers are aware of each other and watch eachother's content. It feels like one big family in a way lol.
Yeah, this is what peak TV felt back in the day. Also why I don't subscribe to Netflix et alia
What are some other good channels? Thanks
This just destroyed me believing this worked without a gadget my whole life 😢
@@jonathangaliano2617 Veritasium, Technology Connections, Tested (Adam Savage), Tom Scott, WIRED, Sabine Hossenfelder, The Royal Institution, Journey to the Microcosmos, Two Minute Papers, Practical Engineering, Stand Up Maths, Mathologer, Kurzgesagt, Vsauce, Zefrank, PBS Space Time, Perun, 3Blue1Brown, Nerdwriter, Numberphile, Scott Manley, Atomic Frontier, Colin Furze, Sixty Symbols, Smarter Every Day, Corridor Crew, PBS Eons, Paul M. Sutter, Stuff Made Here, World Science Festival (Brian Greene), Steve Mould, Medlife Crisis, The Royal Society, Electroboom, CGP Grey, The Slow Mo Guys, Ling Thusiasm, Dr. Becky.
@@thebiglebowsky1076 Well that goes to show how naive you are.
I just love that Technology Connections is popular enough to be satirized! It's awesome that he's gotten that big!
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
The technology connections reference is legit hahaha
I like the version with the permanent magnet. The rattling back and forth as the ball is trapped is exactly what would happen to *_Wile E Coyote_* if he'd bought a perpetual motion machine from ACME.
That's it! I knew it reminded me of _something_
I actually think of the road runner when he does a sudden stop and vibrates back and forth like he's on a spring.
I can see it in my mind's eye!
Not quite. The ACME version would of course cause Wile E Coyote to be stuck in one place. But that's just so the anvil won't miss him.
"Through the magic of buying two of them" had me looking back at the screen with surprise.
The background had me laughing my buttocks off.
Engineering Connections does deserve the reference, you guys both make excellent videos!
Wait, the bloopers sections was even better! Absolute gold right there
@@Michelino_M5 Steve even mimics Alec's physical mannerisms upon catching a mistake, so you know he's a fan paying close attention.
I immediately turned on the subtitles to see how deep the parody went.
Did steve mould just reference technology connections
Im so happy
That feels both more complicated and more elegant than I expected. When I first saw one of those, I had the idea to take advantage of the conductivity of the balls and railing to have the ball complete a circuit between the rails that would supply power to the electromagnet, then I'd simply paint the rest of the rail with a clear enamel or something to break the circuit just before the ball hit the bottom of the ramp, allowing it to proceed through the curve and jump back into the cup.
Looking at this setup and the huge capacitors, I get the feeling that I probably wouldn't have been able to get a strong enough electromagnetic pull with just a coil of magnet wire and a 9v battery, so I'm glad to have been spared the frustration.
0:59 That was so natural I didn't even notice what you were doing at first, but holding the shot on your forced smile like that drove it home 😂😂 well done
I absolutely love that Technology Connections bit
William's neat device brought to mind Harry E. Stockman's tunnel diode motor. Stockman's motor also uses electromagnetic pulses to keep it going. His circuit is a marvel of simplicity, consisting of only a 1.5 volt battery, two resistors, a coil of wire, and a tunnel diode to spin a magnet. The motor, which can also be rigged to be a pendulum, was written up by C. L. Strong in "The Amateur Scientist" column of Scientific American magazine for October 1965.
Its always nice to see technology connections getting some love. And the bloopers were perfect lol
Haha, thank you for including the set Alec uses for his videos. Made me smile each time, half expecting Alec to show up in some form of collaboration.
That bounce into nothing but net at 01:45 was mad satisfying
The use of Technology Connection's set is A-1 amazing, I love it.
For five seconds I was more stoked than I have ever been for an uncoming collboration, but then my hopes were dashed 😩 At least we got some Transparently Smooth Jazz!
The technology connections shout-out made me 😊. Good to know I'm not the only one watching both. Both of you are great, keep up the content 👍👍
Lots of people watch both content creators, since they both make educational breakdowns about things
It’s lovely to see some serious effort put into drawing attention to the original creator. Well done.
On another note, perpetual motion machines have always been such a fascination for me. I was around 10 when I came to understand why they couldn’t exist. Since then I have found it infinitely (pun entirely intended) entertaining to see people try at the impossible, either honestly or with the intention to scam.
Thanks for the video.
I have always loved the concept of working towards intractable problems. Just because something is impossible doesn’t mean that you will not find out something useful in the process. I suggest everyone try to square the circle at some point in their life.
Love that this technology connection was made.
That outro had me in tears! The "typing" did it for me. I would LOVE to see a collaboration!
Moldy Connections really had me rolling!😂😂😂
@@JenLee66 Oh I totally missed that, that’s brilliant!
Not nearly enough snark during that second device reveal! But I do love a TH-cam crossover
Technology Connections reference was awesome. One of my favorite channels.
When you drop 2 at once, I imagine the second one fails since the electromagnet is turned off “early” by the first one, taking a fair bit of acceleration away.
AND THROUGH THE MAGIC OF BUYING TWO OF THEM!!!!
What a great bit.
On April 1st I fully expect that you show us a device like this and just roll with it, explaining how clever it is that the ball is redirected into the bowl again and so on.
I wasn't expecting this colab but now that its happened I've retroactively realized I needed it in my life.
"What if you surround the Ballerina in a ring of magnets?"
Option 1: The Ballerina finds its functional center and stops moving.
Option 2: You wear out your magnets (Which is a thing) making the Ballerina spin for at most 2ish billion years (When the Earth's own magnetic field can no longer keep em "charged")
I loved the Technology Connections reference and especially his bloopers at the end. Hilarious!
That Technology Cinnections impresion took me by surprise big time. My brain was genuinly confused for a second as to what i was watching lol. Great one
Same!
Had a fascinating conversation with someone who had an idea for a “perpetual power” car. Electric car with a motor that turned alternator that in turn charged the batteries. He was amazed that engineers had failed to find this loophole to date and was eager to stick it to big oil and make his millions. Like I said, fascinating conversation.
I had a thought vaguely like that too. I was about 10 and still had a lot of physics to learn.
To be fair, that's the basic idea behind hybrid electric vehicles...
You just need to put fuel in them, too.
So he forgot that the motor has to actually move the car too?
@@OriginalPiManI had a similar idea when I was about 8, where you’d build a big fan into the bonnet of the car that would turn a generator 😅
while true “perpetual motion” doesn't exist, couldnt “perpetual motion” ideas still extend the life?
if you can't get 1:1 can't you try to approach 1:1?
x : 1 where 0.9 > x > 0.9999999999999
THANK YOU for finding the original creator!!! I couldn't find him anywhere and all the knock offs just use loud motors
@Pin_SteveMould_On_Nicegram bot
The Technology Connections reference was amazing
I already knew that there had to be some fairly complicated circuitry and a battery to make that thing work. I'm glad you showed just how much there is.
1:00 yes the crossover I needed
oh and the ending too nice.
Perpetually smoothe jazz.
The most difficult task in building a perpetual mechine is to hide the batteries
I laughed out loud, alone in my house, at the Technology Connections reference! You are both w of my favorite channels thank you so much
Excellent video Steve! Loved the ballerina and Tech Connections bits 😍
That gag with Technology Connections killed me😂
Someone once showed me this asking whether it was real, the kick to the ball was so obvious, i asked, you ever seen a ball and gravity move like that, accelerating out of a loop? Great engineering but unconvincing to the eye.
Steve, I love that the cheekiness potentiometer was cranked up on this one. Had me lol multiple times. Thanks 😂
Steve doing Technology Connections reference puts a smile on my face, well done
I wonder if this will blow up like your other comments, good luck to being top liked.
Is it bad that I barely noticed anything being off until you played Alec's outro music?
My brain was like "I know this set, I know these lines, it all checks out", and I only realized what you did when the video was already over 😂
Bravo to William for not acting like a tool when approached about displaying the mechanism to a huge audience.
Steve Mould and the Action lab uploading in less than 10 minutes? This is what we call happiness 😼
Now I need one from @NightHawkInLight !!!🙄
The capacitors are probably to prevent "sagging". You can ask a bit more then the batteries can provide without a voltage drop during a burst. The effect would be more noticeable when the batteries are getting low. And in the case of LiPo or LiOn the voltage drop could trigger the cutoff.
06:40 gem😂