Perhaps the most persistent nonsense in physics: the perpetual motion machine. Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the ...
Despite decades of feverish and fraudulent research, the perpetual motion machine remains elusive. By perpetual motion, gadgeteers really mean perpetual work. An object in motion, as Galileo and ...
At the turn of the 20th century, the quest for a perpetual motion machine took hold of public imagination. A number of Hoosiers were among those captivated by the idea of creating a perpetual motion ...