Oscillators and rotators are among the most important physical systems. For centuries the only known rotating systems that actually reached the limits of the ideal situation of undamped periodical motion were the planets in their orbits. Physics had to develop quantum mechanics to discover new systems that actually behaved like ideal, undamped, oscillators or rotators. However, all examples of this latter systems occur in atomic or molecular scale. The objective of the present letter is to show how the limit of ideal oscillating motion can be challenged by a man-made system. We demonstrate how a simple model electromechanical system consisting of a superconducting coil and a magnet can be made to display both mechanical and electrical undamped oscillations for certain experimental conditions. The effect might readily be attainable with the existing materials technologies and we discuss the conditions to circumvent energy losses. The result is a lossless system that might generate hundreds of Ampere of rectified electrical current by means of the periodical conversion between gravitational potential, kinetic, and magnetic energies.
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