LDK wrote:eamarquardt wrote:LDK wrote:I can see why the calloway v gate magnet motor doesn't work because of the energy requirement to lift the stator magnet up past the lock up point but what about this one. http://youtu.be/vUcWn1x3Tss I can't see any reason why this one wouldn't work other than because of friction. I've searched you tube and I didn't see this set up anywhere. I'll keep looking, I would really like to see this particular set up.
Friction dooms all "perpetual motion machines". The energy put into the machine to get it going eventually gets dissipated as heat. Even if the machine were "friction free" if you pulled any energy out of the machine (such as driving a generator) the machine would slow down and eventually stop as the energy was pulled out of the machine/system as electricity.
You just gotta have faith. 2,603,257 living physicists can't be wrong.
Cheers,
Gus
I'm just tryin to keep an open mind. The 2nd law of thermodynamics has been broken once before. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... roken.html I know that friction would play a big role in this and any other device but in this one you have attraction and repulsion working at the same time and moving in the same direction. It would be nice to actually see this particular configuration to know for sure.
Quote from linky above: "But the new experiment probed the uncertain middle ground between extremely small-scale systems and macroscopic systems and showed that the second law can also be consistently broken at micron scale, over time periods of up to two seconds".
In short, two seconds does not a perpetual motion machine make.
In addition, if your sample size/volume is very small (as in the experiment) the statistics involved get a bit "weird" due to the small number of "doo dads" involved (sometimes one must use "technical terms"). According to the article 100% predictable but not entirely applicable to the world we normally function in (another of the article's quotes: "Thankfully this probability is so small it never happens on human timescales" and human sized proportions).
Simply put, a perpetual motion machine aint gonna work.
Cheers,
Gus