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perpetual motion ahoy!




Anyone interested in "PM" machines? A hobbyist in Australia has managed
to make a steel ball roll up a magnet-lined slope, then fall over the edge
and roll away!

Does anyone have opinions on how this could occur without violating
conservation of energy?


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