I'm curious about how this may affect the world. I think a replicator will still need particles to be of some use, but where will it take them from? Will it use the gases of our atmosphere? You can't create something from nothing, can you?
I don't know much about thermodynamics, so this post may be useless, but what if this machine was somehow hooked up to use that little bit of heat production to aid in the continuous motion of the ball? would it still lose energy?
I'm not making an argument, to be honest it was a rather useless post. I don't have enough posts yet to put up links for some reason. I was just wondering is the contraption I was speaking of was a perpetual motion machine, but I can't post the link....
Someone did make a perpetual motion machine. or a ball that is just decreasing in speed so slowly it's impossible to see with the naked eye? just look up perpetual motion on youtube and you'll see a ball rotating on rails.