Wow!!!!
The first time I heard about the magnetic perpeto mobile motor was in the mid sixties in a pre-movie when I was about 10 years old. The funny thing is, they too said it was invented in Japan. My 12 year old brother who was somewhere better in sience had only one comment:
Nonsense!
I didn’t believe him first cause I never heard something about the perpeto mobile and the law of conservation of energy. But may be this story was the cause of my growing interest in science that ended years later in a study of mathematics and physics.
During the next 40 years I heard again and again about this magical motor, and a little wiser now I told everybody with a twinkle of my eyes, that we need more of these inventions, cause they are able to plant the seed of scientific interest into the mind of our children.
Xaverion
Leslie Orgel's Second Law:
"Evolution is smarter than you are"