They propose that as the cat falls towards the ground, it will slow down and start to rotate, eventually reaching a steady state of hovering a short distance from the ground while rotating at high speed as both the buttered side of the toast and the cat's feet attempt to land on the ground.[4] In June 2003, Kimberly Miner won a Student Academy Award for her film Perpetual Motion.[5][6] Miner based her film on a paper written by a high-school friend that explored the potential implications of the cat and buttered toast idea.[7][8]