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	Museum of unworkable devices-Physics Gallery
pokkets
9-17-2007 10:07 AM
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physics, perpetual, motion, invention, entropy
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Pictures of registered perpetual motion machines, and reasoning behind them. At the site there are details of the principles of physics that show the flaws in the reasoning behind perpetual motion machines.
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9-18-2007 1:45 AM
skwirlinator
Wow this is an oldy but a goody
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dbba65ef-bb0e-44d9-9653-2637cb0f62e6/97618AC0-3E22-4C49-B891-0241B5350234/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm" href="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lhup.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><B>By Donald E. Simanek</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD bgcolor="#00ff00"><FONT size="4">
<B><I>Cranks keep the wheels turning.</I></B>
—Charles Fort
</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><UL>
<FONT size="3"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#principles">Principles of Unworkable Devices.</A>
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/phys101.htm">Physics 101 for Perpetual Motion Machine
Inventors.</A>
</LI></FONT></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/76136EDC-C994-431D-9809-6E0DD51A5B64" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><FONT size="3"><A name="principles">Perpetual motion machine inventors do have principles. Unfortunately the 
physical principles they assume are often ones <B>not</B> obeyed by nature. 
Let's examine just a few.
</A></FONT><OL>
<FONT size="3"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The principle of unlimited possibility. Anything is possible in nature.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The "heavier on one side" seduction.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The "more weight on one side" distraction.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The "unbalanced torque" deception.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The cyclic disappointment.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The elastic/inelastic dilemma.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">Failure to isolate the system.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The static/dynamic trap.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The apples/oranges equation.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The artistic illusion.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">Experimental "gotchas".
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">The "dog chasing its tail" principle.
</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A name="principles">Reinventing the square wheel.</A></LI></FONT></OL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/473342F7-99C9-4538-953F-5591058CC7AB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/41C92E94-39BF-4C5C-90BC-9F3E244EA9C2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/133592B6-8AD1-4805-A394-45D07208FDC9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><TH>Pierre Richard (Engineer, Paris), 1858,
British patent No. 1870.<BR /> Dircks (1861), p. 482.</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/FA2FABA5-8FCC-4284-8C26-B769BF67533C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/9CC1EB03-E20E-4618-BB4E-3B5AC9F81D19" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><TH>John Haywood (Br. mechanic), 1790,<BR /> British patent No. 1750.
Dircks (1861) p. 66.</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/7039BF81-07A5-4DDC-85EA-803A008BF292" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lhup.edu/img/76BCFB97-EDC2-4ECC-B144-46D095BFEE45" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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