Sunday 17 August 2014

electromagnetism - A potential perpetual motion machine?


If I were to freeze a superconductor, the ones made up of yttrium barium copper oxide, with liquid nitrogen and placed it on one of those strong neodymium magnets, it should float right?


Now what would happen if I made a Mobius strip of steel and lined it up with those magnets and then place the superconductors on them and place the whole setup in some cold place (like Neptune or anywhere with temperature less than $4K$), would the moving superconductors make it a perpetual motion machine?


PS: I know perpetual motion does not exist, so please tell me what would stop it from achieving perpetual motion.




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