The Perpetual Magnet

I'm going to put aside my furnace project and tell you about another project I have been working on. This project has been in developing stages since 2004 and to this day I'm still stuck on this particular phase. I have been researching this idea inside out and had many long discussions with different people about the perpetual motion magnets. The most common answer I get is "IT WON'T WORK!!" If it did it would have already been in the works. **FRUSTRATING** Well, I have'nt let it deter me and have been looking at all possiblities. I had a friend who is a physics pro tell me "Newton laws of motions is what it is!" "Many people who are scientist and endless grants still have'nt solved this problem." . Well, there you have it, I guess this is a fruitless idea and finally just put it on the back burner and moved on to another idea. While pondering this other idea (which is a game) I kept on thinking about this perpetual motion idea. I kept on thinking "Why won't this work??" I started to research again on the internet and it was a double edge sword everwhere. Some people say's they figured it out and others said nope it's not possible. I even read that one guy totally had a prototype going and it has been working for "X" amount of time. So to top it off he say's that magnetic perpetual motion is so powerfull that his machine self destructed because the magnets made this spinning motion go so fast and it broke. I thought about this and in a way it makes sense because if you were to put two opposite poles together it will resist each other. So it leads me to believe that you would have to put some kind of braking system on it to control how fast this thing goes. I just could'nt stop thinking about this perpetual motion magnet idea so I would spend alot of time during my spare time and start drawing up how I thought this thing could work. Days, weeks, months go by and every now in again I would pick up some parts that I would need to build me a prototype. Then the time came... I had this raw prototype put together with lots of hot glue, pipes, wood, and other adhesives to see if I could test my idea. I finally put it together and........"Nothing!!" .. I asked one of my brothers one day what he thought about this particular idea, and with new feedback his answer was that the properties of a magnet are very tricky. He said that North and South Poles on a magnet always have to connect. He said that there is no such thing as a MONO Pole magnet...It did'nt matter how many times you cut it in half it will create new poles. Well, this was exactly the answer I was looking for!! This was one of the reasons my makeshift prototype would'nt work because the magnetic fields are so strong that which ever angle you turned the magnetic field there were a counter part. He told me that magnets don't respond to some metals which are copper, lead, alluminun, and some others that I don't know about. This is were I get excited because I wonder if I could take one of these metals and create a shield around one of the poles to make it not read the other pole. He said that mono pole magnets don't exist so my theory is to try to make one. SO! This is why I am putting together this furnace to melt me some copper and build me prototype with magnets to test my idea. I have no idea if this is possible or if I'm wasting my time, but in the mean time I am really having fun just trying. I'll keep you posted and if you have any thoughts on this I sure would love to hear your input.