Harry >> MJ: More seriously, 36 hours is no big feat, a simple pendulum can run >> much longer than that while swapping potential energy with kinetic >> energy, just like magmos do.
> I think such a pendulum would have to swing higher and higher when it > first starts to run for the comparison to be valid. There are standard oscillators which do increase in frequency before eventually fading. Google: "Tibetan bowls" or "singing bowls". These are oscillators not gainful, yet some will "sing" for 20 minutes after being struck once (reportedly) and will gain in pitch - thus the "singing". That is surprising. When I say "not gainful" I mean that they do decay over time, so they are not self-sustaining. ...but AFAIK - and as I have posted before on a number of occasions, over the decades, no one has ever been able to do a *net* energy audit of a strong natural oscillator, to compare the total P-in to total P-out. IOW it is possible, if not likely - for many natural phenomenon to be slightly OU, but nevertheless not self-sustaining, due to very slight Casimir input at the molecular level, for instance. Jones
