Aristotle's Wheel Paradox

[unimmortal]

Taking a break from magnets and coils and came across this. 

Here's the primer:

https://youtube.com/shorts/3p8mcDsIcEc?s...hxma39M8W7

So you can't rotate the wheel on another wheel, so put the wheel inside a larger ring.

The wheel and ring inner will need to be geared.

Now replace the string with a spring that will compress and expand and mount that in front of the wheel ( presumably from the axle, details to be worked out, so imagine it's being held like the video)

As tension is placed on the spring, the wheel will rotate forward as per the video AND continue to expand (or compress) the spring. 

The spring will reach a point on the wheel where it will release this energy into the wheel, moving it again in the same direction.

So..  the balance is upset. 

Two or three such wheels rotating on the inside of a ring, with axle centres mounted to a central shaft to drive from MAY work.

Anyone with a 3d printer interested in exploring this?

Edit: instead of a spring, a syringe creating a vacuum will give better 'tunability'. Whatever is used has to be balanced with the weight of the rotors.

[unimmortal]

After a sleepness night looking into this I'm now chasing down a set of planetary gears that I can modify. 

It wil hopefully be as easy as drilling / tapping a thread in each planetary to mount one end of the spring, and drilling into the carrier forward of each planetary to mount a fixed post for the other end of the spring. 

A spacer is needed between the hub and the sun gear to clear the spring mount on the planetary gears - however the sun gear isn't needed for initial rotation, but is required for continued rotation.

The reason the paradox works is due to the axis of rotation of the planetary gear MOVING from the centre, to the contact point between planetary and outer ring for a duration of it's rotation - mechanical oscillation.