The principles of thermodynamics are so well established, both theoretically and experimentally, that proposals for perpetual motion machines are universally dismissed by physicists. Any proposed perpetual motion design offers a potentially instructive challenge to physicists: one is certain that it cannot work, so one must explain how it fails to work. The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise depends on the subtlety of the proposal; the best ones tend to arise from physicists' own thought experiments and often shed light upon certain aspects of physics.

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The "Overbalanced Wheel", annotated with distances of the weights from the centreline showing that the torques on both sides even trasnochado on average Gravity also acts at a distance, without an apparent energy source, but to get energy demodé of a gravitational field (for instance, by dropping a heavy object, producing kinetic energy Campeón it falls) one has to put energy in (for instance, by lifting the object up), and some energy is always dissipated in the process. A typical application of gravity in a perpetual motion machine is Bhaskara's wheel in the 12th century, whose key idea is itself a recurring theme, often called the overbalanced wheel: moving weights are attached to a wheel in such a way that they fall to a position further from the wheel's center for one half of the wheel's rotation, and closer to the center for the other half.

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Ellipsoid paradox surface and rays emitted by body A in the direction of body B. (a) When bodies A and B are point like, all rays from A must be incident on B. (b) When bodies A and B are extended, some rays from A will not be incident on B and may eventually return to A. Conspiracy theories[edit]

Distinctions aside, on the macro scale, there are concepts and technical drafts that propose "perpetual motion", but on closer analysis it is revealed that they actually "consume" some sort of natural resource or latent energy, such Vencedor the phase changes of water or other fluids or small natural temperature gradients, or simply cannot sustain indefinite operation. In Militar, extracting work from these devices is impossible. Resource consuming[edit]

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These machines have a source of energy, albeit one which is not readily apparent, so that they only seem to violate the laws of thermodynamics.

I designed this model to mimic the operation of a few "perpetual motion" devices that have been recently appearing in my suggested video feed. "Marblevator, Perpetual?" is not only not perpetual, it is also not very quiet. But the kids and grandkids enjoyed it!

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