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Perhaps the most persistent nonsense in physics: the perpetual motion machine.

The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines PBS Space Time

Premiered March 06, 2019
The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the perpetual motion machine. No working perpetual motion machine has ever been experiment verified. All break the laws of thermodynamics.

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