Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine using a slice of buttered toast and a cat?

I've heard it said that if you strapped a slice of toast, buttered side up, to the back of a cat, and set it on the floor, it would cause perpetual motion, as a cat always lands on its feet, and a slice of buttered toast always lands butter-down.Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine using a slice of buttered toast and a cat?The problem with your idea is getting usable energy from your machine. The revolving cat in my control experiment was truly annoyed when I tried to insert a dynamo in it's......

Don't try it again I've patented the idea and you'll owe me royalties.Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine using a slice of buttered toast and a cat?
You do not have a perpetual motion machine. You have an apparent paradox.



The key to understanding it is that the butter side down principle applies to a slice of toast slid off the edge of a table of normal height. It has just enough time to flip over on the way down to land butter side down. It always starts from butter side up on the table.



Attaching it to a cat changes the dynamics of the toast since its motion is now controlled by the more massive cat.



I have not conducted any experiments with cat mounted toast but I expect that the cat will land on its feet and glower at you and then rub against the table leg to try to dislodge the toast from its back. You will have motion until the cat is successful at which point it will likely slink off and return to its usual inert state on the window sill.Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine using a slice of buttered toast and a cat?If you strapped the toast to the cat's back, buttered side up, and dropped them, they would hover around a foot above the ground, slowly rotating. However, this would not be a perpetual motion machine. Eventually either the cat would tire and the butter would win, or the butter would evaporate and the cat would win. Once the energy in the system is exhausted, it will come to a standstill.
this is true, and if you attach the contraption to a turbine, you could generate enough power to charge your cellphone. the trick is to constantly slather butter (not margarine!) on the bread, so be on the ready or else the device will stall. this would work until the cat has exhausted its nine lives or a mouse comes traipsing about, whichever event comes first.Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine using a slice of buttered toast and a cat?It's simple science.



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Here's a diagram.Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine using a slice of buttered toast and a cat?
That would be continuous motion rather than perpetual motion (forever). Cats only have nine lives (a superstition related to witches changing into cats and back a limited number of times).
No matter how sophisticated the device, there is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine.

It's a great idea though.Is it possible to create a perpetual motion machine using a slice of buttered toast and a cat?
I feel an experiment coming on!



Edit: Didn't have any bread, so I put my cat in the toaster and then buttered its back, didn't work.
According to bad science rumours you would get a cat and a slice of buttered toast that would never touch the ground. :P
Depends if it was a grey cat or a ginger cat , the ginger one would always land on its head :) x
It works for a short while but the cat soon gets bored and goes to sleep.