My name is Mark Rubin, and I'm a dream weaver. I hope these widgets help you weave your dreams into reality. One of the things with my experiments with Marvel's and ramps and Domino's is, I have lots of marbles, condors and marble, and the hour, they'll be all over my floor at the end of the day, and like picking them up and the roll under things and stuff. And I'll try to like contain them. But it didn't work. I like learning, but I don't like picking up marbles. So I would imagine machines, as the marble was rolling down the ramp up, I think, could I build a machine that as a marble is rolling down a ramp that it would pick up one of the marbles that are new rolled down and put her on the top of the ramp. That way, I wouldn't have to pick it up. And I knew as fast as I had that thought immediately that it was not possible to build a machine that did that. Because I could hear it. This marble in my mind rolling in the way that it rolls. And I knew that the sound I was hearing was related to the rate that this marble slowed down. And so since I could hear the marble in my imagination, rolling, I knew that no machine that I could ever make, would be able to have enough energy to pick a marble up as a marble roll down. I didn't know what was called a perpetual motion machine. I had never heard of this idea that was just trying to pick up marbles. And then I started thinking like, maybe I could make machine like if I roll two marbles down. Maybe I could pick up a one marble, okay, and then it would save me half a tie. And I would tinker around with like different, you know, ideas about this modeling things. And for fun, I knew it wouldn't work. But like Could I come up with a machine. That was the most efficient version of the machine that I could imagine that did what I just said, I could I come up with a design that was like, like, I will come up with a design I would try to make it better and better and better. And I would try 1000s of things in my head 1000s basically curving ramps in my head different geometries of branches I started with with the straight line and then I started bending it in different ways. And I ended up with a wheel that had six curb ramps in it in different positions in my mind. And I could model it, I can model it spinning and I can hear where the marbles are rolling and I can see how fast they would go in different curvatures. And approximation of it like enough to know. And like I said I knew it wouldn't work. And then we had a pachinko machine which is like an upright pinball machine. My brother always got the high score my older brother, I was always like he had to be cheating. And what he did was the pachinko machine had metal marbles. And we had this game called Operation that had like a magnet. And what he would do is he would use the magnet on the outside of the machine and put the marbles in like the highest score holes. And this was the way the game worked. And you would push a lever and the marble would bounce around in this thing and go into holes. And anyway you get points. He always won. But he cheated. So however, I knew that I had metal marbles, and I knew that a magnet would make the move. So I added to my machine in my mind these metal marbles and some magnets to see if I could trick the marbles. Just to go a little more in one direction on this balance is balanced situation to create a situation where we're constantly be tipping in a direction. And I had what I thought was the optimal machine, even though I knew it wouldn't work. And for two years, it bothered me that I could not model how long it would spin before it stopped. I had no way to know how long this machine would spin around before it stopped. There was nothing there was no scenario in my mind, or no test I could do in my room with my little tracks, you know and a stopwatch or whatever, like it was no way to figure out how long would it spin? Like would it be like one second? Would it be 10 seconds? Would it be a minute an hour? I couldn't figure it out. So for two years I thought about it try different things in my mind and figure out how can I figure it out. And in the end in 1982 I built this machine in my basement because I wanted to know how long it would spin around before it stuck. And I used a wheel from a steering wheel from a go kart my dad and I were building but he didn't want to get a motor for it. So we stopped building it and use a piece of string to measure things folding the string into six equidistant pieces, put her on the perimeter, fold them in this Six into six pieces marked the wheel with the pencil. So I can get the equal six places to put the curves. I use a pack of playing cards to cut the curves. And they were happened to be the right size for the curvature that I needed. And then I put some saran wrap over it. So I could see inside and put the ball up, put the marbles in there first with the magnets, and then did everything built this thing? And the answer is it spun for like less than one second. As disappointed. I've had it's been longer, but my craftsmanship is terrible in general. So it was it was not imbalanced. And I had to glue a penny to the back of the ad for the axle. I usually like a nail. So like there was friction and stuff over super thin, fine. Now, you know, it wasn't a beautiful work of art. But it did spin for less than one second. And what I realized, as a side note is it would respond for longer if it was a solid piece of wood. Which was I think, a good lesson in over engineering. And that was 1982. I showed it to my dad I took I took this machine I went upstairs. And I was like, Hey, he liked I was just bringing upstairs or putting a trashcan and I was like what's that? I'm like I was trying to build this machine. I wanted to see how long you would spend before it stopped. And he looked at me and he goes, What do you mean, I was like, Well, I had this idea. I was like I know it can't spin around forever. I just didn't know how long it has been before. So that was like Mark everyone knows is now possible to build a perpetual motion machine. I was like, perpetual motion. I was like, That's a good name for this kind of thing. Like, but it can't work. And I throw in the trash knows the end of that.