perpetual

I just saw this on DIGG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvZJ9xGutI Enjoy :)

Would a perpetual motion machine be disqualified by the fact that the sun will someday go supernova then become a black hole causing the machine to be destroyed? Would a perpetual motion machine be disqualified because the earth will one day fall out of orbit and crash into the sun? Would a...

I have a couple of reasons for starting this thread. One is to ask for suggestions for a protocol for a perpetual motion machine (pmm). Another is to state unequivocally that I don't have a physical model of a pmm. I've been accused of saying I did so I'd like to clear that matter up. In...

One of the books the wife gave me for Xmas was a reprint of Gardner D. Hiscox's "970 Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction" first published in 1904. Basically an encyclopedia of machines and mechanics, beautiful drawings. Anyroad, he included a chapter on perpetual motion which is...

I was wondering just how one would go about testing for a claim perporting to have invented a perpetual motion machine. Any ideas?? HTC.

Not sure if this belongs here or in humor but it's worth watching. http://blade.rit.edu/Perpetual_Motion.asx

2003-10-10 Randi let this one slide without comment. Here's selected lines from the exchange between a Swift contributor and a perpetual motion promoter: reply: I took the liberty of bolding one word for emphasis.

Drill a hole through the earth right through the core from one side to the other. Throw something down the hole. Whatdayaget!?! simple harmonic motion! Kaching! $1million please! :D

Hi, I'm working on plans for a Perpetual Energy machine (I know people say it's impossible, but they thought that aeroplanes were impossible a couple of hundred years ago, and that was proved wrong wasn't it?). What I want to know, is, if I could build such a machine, would I be eligible for the...

Ran across this over on Metafilter . Apparently someone's trying to sell a perpetual motion machine on Ebay. Actually, unless I'm reading it wrong it looks like someone bought 2 of them. Yikes! Anyway, take a look for yourself: Ebay Item # 3001165002 BrotherB