perpetual motion

[daleroy]

other then hydrogen types has any one ever put a perpetual motion device up for any scientific testing and if so have any passed.the reason I ask is that ther is a guy ofering cash to any one who has a device like this and can prove it by passing a scientific test

[jake-the-peg]

There have been thousnads of perpetual motion machines.

Here's just a few:
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A perpetual motion machine by definition violates the conservation of Energy principal which is a bedrock of physics.

You've got more chance of coming across a goose that lays golden eggs!

I think his money's safe!

[Loosehead]

It's been the physics holy grail for a couple of centuries. Many ideas have been put forward but they never work. There was someone on here a few months back who suggested that if a battery powered car actually charged it's batteries as it went along then it would never run out!

Not surprised someone is offering cash, any such device would be priceless, oh and impossible!

[bookermel]

OK you know how buttered toast always lands face down? and cats always land on their feet? So if you strap a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a reasonable height would the forces caused by the toast and the cat desperatly trying to fulfill their own laws cause a constantly spinning perpetual motion device?

[Loosehead]

I think you've cracked it bookermel! Genius

[Sphinx_Svens]

Slinky + Escalator = Endless Fun


I know this isn't P.M., before all you know-alls crawl from under your rocks ... it's meant to be a fun thing ...y'know, like a laugh .. yeah?