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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and the history of physics is littered with intentional fraudsters and sloppy experimentalists. Disproving eve
by greglindahl 11y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and the history of physics is littered with intentional fraudsters and sloppy experimentalists. Disproving every perpetual motion machine via experiment would take a lot of effort from scientists who don't want to do it. If you think those experiments should be done, then by all means do them.
- th0ma5 11y agoFair enough, but the problem with perpetual motion stuff is that no energy can be extracted or the time until the device stops is very long, not that they don't do what people claim that they do, which is work more or less perpetually. We need to find that kind of explanation for this supposed propulsion.
- taneq 11y agoThese devices work "more or less perpetually" the same way 1000.0f is "more or less infinite".
- th0ma5 11y agoI upvoted you because you're right, but maybe you and I should take a few months off and time some of the better ones! Worthless machines but I've heard of some lasting a great deal of time.
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