{"id":390690,"date":"2010-03-04T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5485667"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:40:00","slug":"theres-more-ingenuity-in-this-wooden-marble-machine-than-the-sum-of-my-entire-existence-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390690","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s More Ingenuity In This Wooden Marble Machine Than the Sum of My Entire Existence [Science]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- videoId: MNipg3AVCG4 --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/MNipg3AVCG4&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: MNipg3AVCG4 --> Equipped with a marble, some wood and the principles of <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #potentialenergy\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/potentialenergy\/\">potential energy<\/a>, <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #kineticenergy\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/kineticenergy\/\">kinetic energy<\/a> and gravity, one man built a remarkable machine that warps your very sense of what&#8217;s physically possible. Prepare yourself, then hit the clip at 2:30.<\/p>\n<p>While this video eventually ends, the device can keep going, sending the marble in a loop from the top to the bottom to the top (to the bottom&#8230;) without stop, as long as a single weight is repositioned to reset various components.<\/p>\n<p>And, if for some reason, you&#8217;re one of those guys thinking to himself, &#8220;Meh, I could do that.&#8221; Please, please do. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/science\/comments\/b8tek\/this_is_a_wooden_marble_machine_it_is_6_feet_tall\/\">Reddit<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/03\/03\/video-excellent-hand-built-self-powered-marble-lifting-machine\/\">CrunchGear<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=07f5dfaef72d6b89150b348987f950b8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=07f5dfaef72d6b89150b348987f950b8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SQrdnjDWWOY:CwSNNRrCduY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SQrdnjDWWOY:CwSNNRrCduY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SQrdnjDWWOY:CwSNNRrCduY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=SQrdnjDWWOY:CwSNNRrCduY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SQrdnjDWWOY:CwSNNRrCduY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=SQrdnjDWWOY:CwSNNRrCduY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/SQrdnjDWWOY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipped with a marble, some wood and the principles of potential energy, kinetic energy and gravity, one man built a remarkable machine that warps your very sense of what&#8217;s physically possible. Prepare yourself, then hit the clip at 2:30. While this video eventually ends, the device can keep going, sending the marble in a loop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}