The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

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    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. In fact, we classify based on WHICH law of thermodynamics they break. We have perpetual motion machines of the first kind - they violate energy conservation - they pump more energy out than they need to keep running. This includes most of the historical devices. Then there are machines of the second kind - they’re a bit more subtle in their wrongness because break the second law of thermodynamics - extracting energy by reversing entropy. Many modern “free-energy” devices fall into this category. Now the best modern designs are by you - answers to our recent challenge question, which we’ll get to at the end. But first let’s take a look at examples of what other people came up with - this’ll be a fun little journey through some pretty terrible science.
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    Designing a perpetual motion machine has a very long history and became quite the craze from the middle ages through the renaissance. The first well-documented design for a perpetual motion machine was from the 12th century. Bhāskara's wheel, named after the Indian mathematician, was embedded with tubes of mercury that would flow from back and forth as the wheel turned. Other types of over-balance wheels followed through to the Renaissance and worked on the same principle. There were also designs that employed the magical-seeming lodestones - magnets. For example, this ramp in which a ball is pulled to the top by a magnet before falling through a hole and rolling to the bottom again. Then there are the self-pumping waterwheels or self-blowing windmills.
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Komentáře • 9K

  • @-james-8343
    @-james-8343 Před 5 lety +4277

    “Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this” he’s becoming self aware

    • @alex95s7
      @alex95s7 Před 5 lety +45

      -James- vary niiiiiice

    • @nil981
      @nil981 Před 5 lety +109

      Quantum mechanics forbids a lot of things...like time travel and by extension, faster than light travel!

    • @mps2209
      @mps2209 Před 5 lety +168

      It also forbids people to learn more about itself

    • @tothass666
      @tothass666 Před 5 lety +28

      Good meme

    • @TheRealFlenuan
      @TheRealFlenuan Před 5 lety +10

      I came to comment this

  • @francescoghizzo
    @francescoghizzo Před 5 lety +1007

    "Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" (my favourite quote from the Simpsons)

    • @koenvandamme6901
      @koenvandamme6901 Před 5 lety +49

      "It just keeps going faster and faster!"

    • @uss_04
      @uss_04 Před 5 lety

      Jackie Chan i know rite. Same.

    • @xdragon2k
      @xdragon2k Před 5 lety +8

      czcams.com/video/gOMibx876A4/video.html

    • @ugoeze7360
      @ugoeze7360 Před 5 lety

      Francesco Ghizzo you beat me to it!!

    • @CanadaBud23
      @CanadaBud23 Před 5 lety +10

      Disobeying the laws of thermodynamics?! That's a paddling.

  • @thefekete
    @thefekete Před 2 lety +1137

    The hardest part about designing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out how to hide the battery ~ electro boom

    • @greenstargin5321
      @greenstargin5321 Před 2 lety +63

      How many times have you reposted that quote, I see it on everything related

    • @flightcffaux22
      @flightcffaux22 Před 2 lety +13

      Veeeerrryyyy original

    • @QuicksGG
      @QuicksGG Před 2 lety +2

      I believe electroboom said this

    • @Justthemow
      @Justthemow Před 2 lety +2

      And living long enough to prove it will last forever

    • @Bolt_Chaser
      @Bolt_Chaser Před 2 lety +11

      The hardest part of writing a CZcams comment is figuring out whose quote to use

  • @quimicoz
    @quimicoz Před 2 lety +164

    The way I see it, we should build a Perpetual motion machine of the 5th kind.
    If it succeds, we have a perpetually working machine.
    If it fails, we discovered the 5th law of thermodynamics.
    It is a win-win enterprise.

    • @user-pr6ed3ri2k
      @user-pr6ed3ri2k Před 2 lety +5

      lol

    • @tone618
      @tone618 Před rokem +7

      that's complete bogus but very funny and clever
      and almost makes sense

    • @adamdecoder1
      @adamdecoder1 Před rokem +13

      @@tone618 Damn you're right. Almost like it was a joke

  • @johncochran8497
    @johncochran8497 Před 5 lety +791

    The three laws....
    1. You can't win.
    2. You can't even break even .... Unless it's an extremely cold day.
    3. It can't get that cold.

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 Před 5 lety +58

      John Cochran
      4. But...

    • @sugarfrosted2005
      @sugarfrosted2005 Před 5 lety +17

      Zeroeth, all losing is the same.

    • @onebronx
      @onebronx Před 5 lety +36

      @@cezarcatalin1406
      5. ... ah, nevermind, it can't work too.

    • @MakeMeThinkAgain
      @MakeMeThinkAgain Před 5 lety +22

      There's a joke in here where it's cold enough you can win but you can't get hard, so you still can't win.

    • @medexamtoolsdotcom
      @medexamtoolsdotcom Před 5 lety +5

      I thought the 3rd law was just that the entropy of a pure perfect crystal at absolute 0 is 0, not that absolute 0 is unattainable.

  • @ikemanreed
    @ikemanreed Před 5 lety +1039

    Perpetual motion machines seem to be perpetual in the sense that people keep trying to make them

  • @ronfarrar3001
    @ronfarrar3001 Před 2 lety +89

    The fun part that gets looked over is efficiency.. the energy gradient of the modern car compared to the first internal combustion engine is so vastly different is like watching gravity driven power compared to the space shuttle. I'm amazed at how they do not fire up imaginations with the challenge to build things that take much less to perform better

    • @miguelfernandes2760
      @miguelfernandes2760 Před 2 lety

      Totally agree. Was thinking the same as i was watching.

    • @nathanwahl9224
      @nathanwahl9224 Před rokem +1

      You can approach an efficiency of unity by getting closer and closer. Going beyond unity to actually get anything out of it isn't natural, sorry, won't ever happen.

    • @sayamqazi
      @sayamqazi Před rokem

      @@nathanwahl9224 To add to the injury further It is actually proven that you cant even "reach" unity.

    • @davelowets
      @davelowets Před rokem

      @@sayamqazi No kidding... That would be called a "perpetual motion" device, and we all KNOW that's not possible

    • @randycarroll-bradd4894
      @randycarroll-bradd4894 Před měsícem

      Yeah, the modern ICE car has gotten all the way up to somewhere between 25% and 35% efficient at turning gasoline energy into motion. Not bad for nearly 150 years of refinement.

  • @robertpearson8798
    @robertpearson8798 Před rokem +65

    The quest for a perpetual motion machine is itself a perpetual motion machine.

    • @blacksmith2479
      @blacksmith2479 Před rokem +10

      What if the real perpetual motion machine was the friends we made along the way?

    • @DarkFox2232
      @DarkFox2232 Před měsícem

      Human stupidity will run for as long as there are humans.

  • @garryblofeld7467
    @garryblofeld7467 Před 3 lety +367

    I was going to buy a perpetual motion machine last week,but it only had a six month warranty.

    • @se6586
      @se6586 Před 2 lety +22

      They used to have lifetime warranties back in my day

    • @Pet_Hedgehog
      @Pet_Hedgehog Před 2 lety +6

      lmao so subtle yet so good

    • @jaroslavfridrich6158
      @jaroslavfridrich6158 Před 2 lety

      If you want, i sell you one clearly magnetic perpetuum machine. It´s easy and fully working device. I show you this, you can buy it. But idea is not cheap. Do you want it?

    • @danielrichardson6068
      @danielrichardson6068 Před 2 lety +2

      THAT WAS VERY FUNNY!
      LMPMMO

    • @johnbash-on-ger
      @johnbash-on-ger Před rokem

      LOL

  • @holo_nside
    @holo_nside Před 5 lety +417

    Fell asleep to this. Phone fell off my bed and I woke up to "actually, quantum mechanics forbids this"

  • @colingianella7172
    @colingianella7172 Před rokem +37

    To set something permanently spinning, simply strap a slice of bread and jam, which we all know will land jam side down, to a cat’s back which we all know always falls paws down therefore two opposing forces fighting each other for superiority. I found through experimentation that apricot jam works best especially when strapped to a Siamese cat.

  • @saiganeshmanda4904
    @saiganeshmanda4904 Před 2 lety +5

    At 3:03, you saying "inventors just graduated to instead breaking the 2nd law of thermodynamics" sounded to me way funnier than it should have...😂

  • @jaysonfred8313
    @jaysonfred8313 Před 5 lety +5887

    You want infinite energy? Just place down a redstone block smh.

    • @spotsindude4045
      @spotsindude4045 Před 5 lety +59

      YUP 😂

    • @markcharles5947
      @markcharles5947 Před 5 lety +112

      This joke is underrated

    • @Kolusify
      @Kolusify Před 5 lety +224

      I rather plant trees, turn them into charcoal, create a machine that will plant trees for me, make more charcoal, then make a machine that will cut trees for me, get infnite charcoal, then get a machine that will burn trees for me for charcoal. FREE INFINITE CHARCOAL! Perputum Charcoulum.

    • @petercarioscia9189
      @petercarioscia9189 Před 5 lety +25

      Only 13 block range though. Or 7? I forget.

    • @rechtebanana
      @rechtebanana Před 5 lety +68

      @@Kolusify but this works in real life, it's not even perpetual motion because trees gather energy from the sun

  • @SprDrumio64
    @SprDrumio64 Před 3 lety +763

    There is one thing that is perpetual tho: people trying to create a perpetual motion machine lol

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid Před 3 lety +34

      Maybe if you string a bunch of these people to a wheel... 🤔 Can't be sure if it'd work, only one way to find out!

    • @jimsimpson2820
      @jimsimpson2820 Před 2 lety +2

      No its not, that violates physics

    • @Sausager
      @Sausager Před 2 lety +14

      @@jimsimpson2820 ? It's a joke

    • @Wraught
      @Wraught Před 2 lety +40

      @@Sausager If we could only harness the energy of people not getting jokes, we'd be set for life.

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade Před 2 lety +4

      Nah. Those people are just a waste of Exergy.
      .
      P.S. Yes i spelt that exergy and not energy, for a reason.

  • @xINVISIGOTHx
    @xINVISIGOTHx Před 2 lety +265

    my dad used to try to make these. He usually used magnets facing in opposite directions so they push apart

    • @nyneshpanchal7711
      @nyneshpanchal7711 Před 2 lety +9

      Basically a free energy device, not a perpetual motion machine

    • @ashscott6068
      @ashscott6068 Před 2 lety +54

      @@nyneshpanchal7711 Neither. Just a wheel with magnets on

    • @dimitrikrotchlikmeoff1953
      @dimitrikrotchlikmeoff1953 Před 2 lety +16

      @@ashscott6068 you just ended his dads career

    • @Canadian_Hospitality
      @Canadian_Hospitality Před 2 lety +17

      @@nyneshpanchal7711 it’s not free energy though, magnets have finite energy.

    • @monkey3964
      @monkey3964 Před 2 lety

      @@Canadian_Hospitality racist

  • @Gemini-Lion
    @Gemini-Lion Před 2 lety +71

    I’m fairly certain that if a perpetual motion machine was ever created somehow, it would probably just function as an inefficient battery.

    • @ghaldurinanubios4290
      @ghaldurinanubios4290 Před rokem +2

      If it moved fast enough, and was bigger with a couple more next to it, it'd make a good generator for a house.

    • @quacking.duck.3243
      @quacking.duck.3243 Před rokem +4

      Planetary orbits are a sort of battery. You could in theory sap angular momentum from them to power something else.

    • @Gemini-Lion
      @Gemini-Lion Před rokem +1

      @@ghaldurinanubios4290 But where would the energy come from? When I posted this comment, I was thinking it would essentially act as a kinetic energy battery. That kinetic energy would then be possible to turn into heat and electricity. That electricity could then be used for a bunch of stuff

    • @sayamqazi
      @sayamqazi Před rokem +1

      @@Gemini-Lion put a ring like track around earth, put a car on it. attach the moon to the car's roof with a "STRONG" string and you have forever running car. Well for a few million years forever.

  • @mikemondano3624
    @mikemondano3624 Před 5 lety +349

    The Laws of Thermodynamics:
    1.) You can't win or lose. You can only break even.
    2.) You can't break even except at Absolute Zero.
    3.) You can't get to Absolute Zero.

    • @nziom
      @nziom Před 5 lety +14

      They're the reason why everyone and everything will die

    • @vinnytaranova6163
      @vinnytaranova6163 Před 5 lety +39

      So you're saying that my ex-wife's heart would work just fine.

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump Před 5 lety +6

      .... inside the universe. maybe after heat death something could be arranged.

    • @crateer
      @crateer Před 5 lety +1

      4.) U dumb

    • @ZeHoSmusician
      @ZeHoSmusician Před 5 lety +7

      @@crateer 5.) I think you might have missed the point...

  • @oslier3633
    @oslier3633 Před 5 lety +679

    In this house we obey the law of THERMODYNAMICS

  • @CommackMark
    @CommackMark Před 2 lety +17

    Im at work at devising a machine to capture the energies.... heat... mechanical.... etc.... released from a lying politician's mouth. One great part about this approach is the degree of freedom afforded the user in selecting which politician they want to hook up to the device. Once I complete the prototype I intend to test. Though I still have some engineering challenges to overcome..... in principle I am very optimistic that I will have created a perpetual motion machine that greatly exceeds in energy output compared to any energy input required. Will keep everyone posted on my progress.

    • @tone618
      @tone618 Před rokem +1

      lol

    • @ubaldomaldonado9347
      @ubaldomaldonado9347 Před rokem

      Todos dan por sentado, la validez de que la energía no se puede obtener y eso Puede Ser Refutado y cuando eso Suceda la Ley de la Termodinámica será obsoleta!!!!
      Mientras Tanto, Gocen de Su Ley y dejen de probar!!! Yo prefiero pensar QUE SE PUEDE!!!!

  • @TimeSquareTitts
    @TimeSquareTitts Před rokem +3

    I like this channel's calm rational examination of these things. The middle ground between hype and skepticism .

  • @PilifXD
    @PilifXD Před 5 lety +380

    6:52 He is aware of the meme 😂

    • @MalekiRe
      @MalekiRe Před 5 lety +8

      What meme?

    • @Ferroes
      @Ferroes Před 5 lety +22

      Look up Quantum Mechanics Forbids This in r/DankMemes

    • @MalekiRe
      @MalekiRe Před 5 lety +4

      iron saad Just did, thanks.

    • @KrapTacu1ar
      @KrapTacu1ar Před 5 lety +12

      Actually, Quantum Mechanics forbids this

    • @beretperson
      @beretperson Před 5 lety +3

      @@MalekiRe him saying "Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this" was a bit of a meme not long ago.

  • @CeriusDeluge
    @CeriusDeluge Před 5 lety +333

    I have been working on a perpetual motion machine for years now. I know it's impossible but for some reason I can't seem to stop.

    • @judah9626
      @judah9626 Před 4 lety +10

      I can help I found out some new susbtances we can do

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon Před 4 lety +71

      I guess you can your struggle is perpetual

    • @MouseGoat
      @MouseGoat Před 4 lety +13

      @@Nugcon I believe that was indeed the joke ^^

    • @coleschemistrychannel4172
      @coleschemistrychannel4172 Před 4 lety +5

      Nekogami-Crystal Thanks, I didn’t get it.

    • @eyeballpapercut4400
      @eyeballpapercut4400 Před 4 lety +2

      @@judah9626 can you do hypermeth then

  • @JackDesert
    @JackDesert Před 2 lety +6

    I thought I had created something that could generate energy. But years later after my prototype got smashed at the school fair, I looked into it and realized that the excess coil of wire was using heat from the sun where I had set up to create more energy like a solar panel could. i was so excited for a long time after busting a few bulbs thorugh excess energy generation. Now I realized I was creating a loop of electricity through infrared.
    But you coudln't convinced me of that when I was just 13 years old.

  • @ihorvoronchak8191
    @ihorvoronchak8191 Před 2 lety +44

    “Never believe everything you see on the internet.” -Galileo

    • @prashantjoshi1604
      @prashantjoshi1604 Před 2 lety

      lmao😂😂😂😂😂internet wasn't there that time ....
      Now u will say dont believe in that😂

    • @ihorvoronchak8191
      @ihorvoronchak8191 Před 2 lety +5

      R/whoooosh

    • @tonyinfinity
      @tonyinfinity Před 2 lety +5

      @@prashantjoshi1604 Thanks Captain Obvious. You must be entertaining to be around at a comedy show

    • @prashantjoshi1604
      @prashantjoshi1604 Před 2 lety

      @@tonyinfinity 😂😂no my surrounding one has a much great sense than me...so they gives savage replies to them too..

  • @Mryoyo1600
    @Mryoyo1600 Před 5 lety +579

    1. Get a cat, hold upside down.
    2. Attached piece of toast to cat's back, butter side out.
    3. Drop cat-toast.
    4. Cat will always land on its feet, toast will always land butter side up, cat-toast never touches ground spinning endlessly.
    5. Attach generator.
    6. Enjoy infinite energy.

    • @greenheroes
      @greenheroes Před 5 lety +5

      what about toasts with nothing on them... will they land on the darker or the lighter side of the roasted bread (my hypothesis is it land on the lighter side/it doesn't matter enough to change it's gravitationnal pattern, in order to fall on the heavier side)

    • @Fsilone
      @Fsilone Před 4 lety +167

      7. Newton starts turning in his grave.
      8. Attach generator to turning Newton.
      9. Enjoy more free energy.

    • @gravyboat2370
      @gravyboat2370 Před 4 lety +7

      Genius

    • @Phobos_Anomaly
      @Phobos_Anomaly Před 4 lety +20

      Butter side down, actually. But you get the basic idea.

    • @lucklord7
      @lucklord7 Před 4 lety +13

      10. Tesla starts celebrating free energy in his grave
      11. Call the Ghostbusters

  • @LoveDoctorNL
    @LoveDoctorNL Před 3 lety +689

    Love the “Quantum Mechanics forbids this” 😄

    • @Lumberjack_king
      @Lumberjack_king Před 3 lety +27

      It's actually a meme now

    • @BenchwarmerJoe
      @BenchwarmerJoe Před 3 lety +9

      We dare not speak its name.

    • @theautodan7095
      @theautodan7095 Před 3 lety +3

      Google search joseph newmann perpetual motion...

    • @LoveDoctorNL
      @LoveDoctorNL Před 3 lety +13

      Dan Marron : Great example of an idea that doesn’t work, thanks

    • @theautodan7095
      @theautodan7095 Před 3 lety

      @@LoveDoctorNL how do you figure? He had JPL labs at NASA examine it and they agree it works. 2 electrical engineers from the patent office agreed it works...

  • @zednam2110
    @zednam2110 Před 2 lety +3

    I love your work, featuring other people's work.

  • @joesands8860
    @joesands8860 Před rokem +15

    I remember being about 15 years old (1983) drawing out my blueprints for a perpetual motion wheel using electric magnets and whatever else I could find in my Grandfather's garage. I actually thought I was onto something.
    This was well before the internet was around to show me how little I knew about basically EVERYTHING.

    • @lebergerdesphotons4565
      @lebergerdesphotons4565 Před rokem +4

      so you have accepted to permit the internet to make you believe that you are very small and very limited. That coincides (if, as is your case, you are a coincidence theorist) with what the people with all the power want you to believe.
      I hope for you and the billions of others like you that you can get over this stupidity of believing what people who want you dead want you to believe.

    • @YainVieyra
      @YainVieyra Před rokem +1

      @@lebergerdesphotons4565 hahahahahaa!

    • @lebergerdesphotons4565
      @lebergerdesphotons4565 Před rokem

      @@YainVieyra maybe you could offer the explanation of why you find that funny?

    • @YainVieyra
      @YainVieyra Před rokem

      @@lebergerdesphotons4565 do you explain to people every time you laugh?

    • @lebergerdesphotons4565
      @lebergerdesphotons4565 Před rokem

      @@YainVieyra no. but I do explain every time they ask.

  • @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627
    @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 Před 5 lety +216

    "Close, but no perpetually burning cigar"
    Put that on a t-shirt.

    • @allenstephens3439
      @allenstephens3439 Před 5 lety

      Mabey...

    • @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627
      @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 Před 5 lety +5

      @The main cause of warps in all of reality Relax dude. No need to be so excessive and rude. Couldve simply said "Spellcheck can go a long way".

    • @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627
      @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 Před 5 lety +2

      Just to further my own comment, put an image on the shirt of a popular perpetual motion machine design and then write "Close, but no perpetually burning cigar" underneath the image or on the back of a shirt.
      Thatd be pretty cool and comical at the same time.

    • @MrMusicEnrique
      @MrMusicEnrique Před 5 lety

      Damn.

    • @Yawyna124
      @Yawyna124 Před 2 lety

      @@seemlyme
      I'm not entirely certain how you hope to assemble this. Or why you think this would work indefinitely. It is possible to make the float of a fill valve work in reverse, so to speak, that it closes up a valve the lower the fill line gets. But then once you get past that it becomes dubious.
      Firstly, this is the wrong type of valve for such a process as, the second the moment the inverted fill valve whose valve is shut off by the float as the water level lowers as opposed to rises, the bladder will begin to fill again. It would be better to simply let the pressure between the gravity-fed water tank and the pressure within the bladder equalize, and then seal it off with a valve that isn't dependent on the level of the water, or seal off the bladder at some semi-arbitrary point prior to the bladder bursting with an independent valve.
      But then we get the issue of attempting to spray the water back into the tank. As the bladder begins to drain, the pressure on the water will shrink and any free-jetted water will have a weaker and weaker stream until it can no longer be fed back into the tank.
      "The manual actions should be automated and repeated then perpetual motion"
      As the machine you've proposed doesn't have any way to automate them, you will need to automate them from an outside source which is energy loss. Additionally, this machine is what this video described as a "type 3 perpetual motion device" where it can theoretically feed itself indefinitely, but does no work outside of that. The water being sprayed through the air or the water being fed through to the bladder would need to interact with an outside system in order for it to do work.
      The failings of your proposal are:
      1) Improper valve usage
      2) dependence on consistent pressure in a variable pressure system
      3) It is a perpetual motion machine that does no work besides to feed itself.
      4) It cannot even feed itself.

  • @livintolearn7053
    @livintolearn7053 Před 4 lety +91

    8:05
    That's no villain bro. That's ElectroBOOM, the Rectifier! He's on our team.

    • @NoahSpurrier
      @NoahSpurrier Před 4 lety +5

      Livin' to Learn If you look in the upper right corner of the clip you will see that there is thanks and credit given. It would have been impossible not to realize the source video was itself also debunking perpetual motion.

  • @canrex7540
    @canrex7540 Před 2 lety +11

    Would a ball of mass surrounded by a sphere of negative mass collapse to a black hole? Or would the mass squish out of the way, like playdough in a hydraulic press? If it does form a black hole, what does it mean for a black hole to contain negative mass? A white hole?
    God I love physics thought experiments.

  • @michaelrose93
    @michaelrose93 Před 2 lety +2

    The second law does not state that "entropy can _never_ decrease," only that entropy _tends_ to increase. 3:08 The fact is that is can indeed run in reverse, for short periods of time, it's just so rare that we don't tend to consider it.

  • @YoungTheFish
    @YoungTheFish Před 5 lety +315

    Great, now my youtube recommandation will be filled with fake perpetual motion contraptions, again.

    • @pbsspacetime
      @pbsspacetime  Před 5 lety +81

      Trying researching them for an episode. CZcams will never show me anything else ever again.

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli Před 5 lety +4

      I have CZcams history disabled. I tend to only get enhanced garbage recommendations for a little while after watching videos like this. I say enhanced, since it's still pretty garbage normally.

    • @byrnemeister2008
      @byrnemeister2008 Před 5 lety +2

      Merennulli Good call!! I’m disabling CZcams history right now.

    • @stylis666
      @stylis666 Před 5 lety

      It's a trap! Get out!

    • @NarwahlGaming
      @NarwahlGaming Před 5 lety +1

      Don't you mean you'll be getting... perpetual recommendations?
      Say! Is that the exit over there?

  • @TheLegend-oy2sg
    @TheLegend-oy2sg Před 2 lety +618

    I consider incredibly slow loss in energy to be close enough to perpetual motion for being a cool toy

    • @yossarrian
      @yossarrian Před 2 lety +31

      like the sun is near enough infinite energy to stop the winjing and tap that keg

    • @misaelolvera2996
      @misaelolvera2996 Před 2 lety +16

      Like when someone makes an m machine that takes the power of a magnet and just releases it really slowly over time since magnetism power last so long I would consider these

    • @jasoncruz19800
      @jasoncruz19800 Před 2 lety +22

      Yup. It wouldnt make a difference if it lasts a million years or infinity to humans.

    • @wbass243
      @wbass243 Před 2 lety +10

      The ebb and flow of tides is the easiest macro scale oscillating energy system. Why is everyone trying to chase what the moon and earth already provides?

    • @outputcoupler7819
      @outputcoupler7819 Před 2 lety +22

      @@misaelolvera2996 Nobody has made such a machine, because they're mathematically impossible. Magnets don't have power. They do not release energy. You can't run anything on them, because they are not power sources.
      Think about magnets like springs. The spring can push on something, but only if you compress the spring first. So the energy you get out of the spring is just the energy you put in when you compressed it, minus some losses. It's exactly the same with magnets. There is no arrangement of permanent magnets that provides a sustained net force, just like there's no way to arrange springs so that they'll continually accelerate a wheel.
      The reason electric motors work is because they move the field itself. There is absolutely no way to make permanent magnets do what electric motors do, because their fields are static. And once the device has reached its minimum energy state, it will simply stop. And the magnets will make you stop faster, because they'll induce eddy currents as the moving magnetic fields pass through conductors, sapping energy from the system and dissipating it as heat.
      Seriously. Trust the physicists on this one. The whole "make stuff spin forever with magnet power" is bullshit.

  • @ricardobimblesticks1489
    @ricardobimblesticks1489 Před rokem +2

    The impossibilty stems from the approach, everyone focuses on the machine part of the problem.
    When one focuses on modifying perpetuity then the problem becomes a great deal easier to solve.

  • @rolfs5854
    @rolfs5854 Před rokem +2

    When I was at school, a friend and I. We invented Perpetuum mobiles and discussed them with the physics teacher. They worked in that perspective that the teacher always said to us that our Perpetuum mobiles will not work because of this and this physical law. A law we did not learn until this point.

  • @skrub3801
    @skrub3801 Před 4 lety +589

    THE MEME IS HERE! ACTUALLY, QUANTUM MECHANICS FORBIDS THIS!

    • @sagnikpaul1811
      @sagnikpaul1811 Před 4 lety +6

      Sounds good.

    • @oltro15
      @oltro15 Před 4 lety +4

      Ok

    • @douglaswilliams4389
      @douglaswilliams4389 Před 4 lety +3

      Perpetual gravity can be harnessed . An under water wheel using 12 airbags with 12 weights outside of them. Can be made to turn using gravity alone. Only enough air to fill 6 of the bags. Weights will move towards gravity's pull = from the top towards the axial. = from the bottom away from the axial. Taking air with them through the wheel from the top to the bottom bag.(accordion style). All the full air bags are on the same side. Gravity will spin the wheel... till patrs ware out. Is that perpetual enough for you. From the arch-angel. Ram full Than

    • @RetrogradeBeats
      @RetrogradeBeats Před 4 lety +11

      Douglas Williams no

    • @dadutchboy2
      @dadutchboy2 Před 4 lety

      caps lock

  • @quahntasy
    @quahntasy Před 5 lety +132

    "Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this 😂👌"
    I am ded.

    • @enluve3920
      @enluve3920 Před 3 lety

      perpetual motion forbids this joke..

  • @JEANSDEMARCO
    @JEANSDEMARCO Před rokem +1

    In the 60s I visited the Franklin Institute in Philly! They had a swinging pendulum about 3 stories high which kept swinging because of it's alignment with the earth's equator, and the earths rotation kept it swinging! Of course, any hookup with work would eventually slow it to a stop!

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch Před rokem

      All Foucault pendulums run down eventually because of friction, unless they are powered somehow. They precess because of the Earth's rotation, but they cannot extract energy from it. Most are powered by an electromagnet near the top of the cable.

  • @heatrez1518
    @heatrez1518 Před 2 lety +2

    Even the Carnot cycle doesn't necessarily have an efficiency of unity. If I recall my thermo correctly, a Carnot engine's efficiency is dependent on the temperature of the heat source and heat sink.
    Efficiency = 1 - Tsink/Tsource
    At Tsink = 0K or Tsource = infinityK, the efficiency will be 1. For any other cases, efficiency will not be 1. A Carnot engine could even have an efficiency of 0 if Tsink = Tsource.

  • @Matyniov
    @Matyniov Před 5 lety +587

    noone:
    universe: "Actually, quantum mechanics forbid this"

    • @alandouglas2789
      @alandouglas2789 Před 5 lety +7

      An Account no one* it’s two words

    • @twigdayzclips2859
      @twigdayzclips2859 Před 5 lety +2

      Alan Douglas no-one* if you’re reading a book and it’s on 2 different lines.

    • @alandouglas2789
      @alandouglas2789 Před 5 lety +11

      Yaboi Twig no it wouldn’t appear that way either because they are two completely seperate words.

    • @twigdayzclips2859
      @twigdayzclips2859 Před 5 lety +1

      Alan Douglas I guess a couple of authors are wrong then

    • @vornamenachname906
      @vornamenachname906 Před 5 lety +2

      he wrote none long. so it's noone.

  • @DOUGtheBAMF
    @DOUGtheBAMF Před 5 lety +429

    If They were all the craze before they discovered the laws of thermodynamics, why not just undo the law and make the perpetual machines again?

    • @MegaBanne
      @MegaBanne Před 5 lety +9

      lol

    • @museifu3419
      @museifu3419 Před 5 lety +27

      Idk why they're making such a big fuss, just Ctrl + Alt + Z and problem solved

    • @ikhsanhasbi657
      @ikhsanhasbi657 Před 5 lety +28

      I hope they also undo the law of gravity so I can fly

    • @kishinasura1504
      @kishinasura1504 Před 5 lety +31

      Ikr fucking government and their laws

    • @CouncilOfTheLostGoats
      @CouncilOfTheLostGoats Před 5 lety +13

      They need unanimous congressional approval and we all know that's not happening.

  • @joeloliver2279
    @joeloliver2279 Před 2 lety +3

    All this video did was convince me that I want to make a cool looking toy thing that goes for a long time

  • @Hansulf
    @Hansulf Před 2 lety +1

    Best part of thinking that you know how to make a perpetual motion machine is that at some point you realize is not posible and you get to really understand the Second Law of Thermodinamics.

  • @BryanRice800
    @BryanRice800 Před 5 lety +140

    Just to clarify, ElectroBoom was debunking all the "perpetual motion machines" and other misinformation videos.

    • @lidarman2
      @lidarman2 Před 5 lety +31

      Yeah. I didn't understand why PBS space time decided to lump him in that section. ElectroBoom is a really smart guy with a terrific channel.

    • @d_9696
      @d_9696 Před 5 lety +33

      It says "thanks to ElectroBoom" at the top :D

    • @adondriel
      @adondriel Před 5 lety +23

      @@d_9696 yea, i'm pretty sure they were giving him a nod, saying "funny video man" not saying that he was one of the people scamming others.

    • @dixie_rekd9601
      @dixie_rekd9601 Před 5 lety +2

      yeah none of the other videos got their channel name mentioned. :)

    • @lidarman2
      @lidarman2 Před 5 lety +4

      @@d_9696 Gotcha. I thought that was part of his original video.

  • @chris999999999999
    @chris999999999999 Před 5 lety +81

    "I keep designing perpetual motion machines. Ironically, I can't seem to stop."
    I forget where the quote comes from though, sorry.

    • @NarwahlGaming
      @NarwahlGaming Před 5 lety +3

      Sounds like something Groucho Marx would say.
      Or, Marty Feldman.

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy Před 5 lety

      Smart as he was, Groucho left school at the age of 12. His early 20th century audiences were also unlikely to know what perpetual motion machines were; what is special about the idea. It can be hard to appreciate how ignorant people of the past were of simple mechanics; certainly they did not know laws of thermodynamics. Whoever made that joke was certainly more modern.

    • @TheReZisTLust
      @TheReZisTLust Před 5 lety

      -Ronald Weasley

    • @wernerboden239
      @wernerboden239 Před 5 lety

      Even if you know it is impossible, just go on.
      Most of the things we learn, is more because we fail, rather than success.

  • @LunaProtege
    @LunaProtege Před 2 lety +1

    The Carnocycle actually gives the barest inkling of an idea; room temperature air is brought into the system from outside a room and compressed to create a high temperature zone to power an engine, then once the heated cylinder has "cooled down" to "room temperature", the compressed gas is released into the outside world where it is functionally "very cold", but will disperse eventually due to the sheer volume of "room temperature air" as well as being warmed by solar rays or possibly geothermal radiation. This process would essentially be a "very inefficient solar engine".

  • @mamons30
    @mamons30 Před 4 lety +397

    "Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this." is just reality saying "wait that's illegal"

    • @vishnus.p.4007
      @vishnus.p.4007 Před 3 lety +7

      Even quantum mechanics is incomplete. So don't jump into conclusions. It maybe possible !!!!

    • @rodolfomerced1815
      @rodolfomerced1815 Před 3 lety +2

      @@vishnus.p.4007 If there is gravity there is energy facebook.com/overunity1/

    • @lilsammich8252
      @lilsammich8252 Před 3 lety

      The impossible drive laughs in your general direction.

    • @seminoldschool7032
      @seminoldschool7032 Před 3 lety +1

      ...you should copyright that. I promise you THAT quote will be incredibly significant in the near future. Brilliant retort!

    • @randdDiaries
      @randdDiaries Před 3 lety +1

      As per recent developments in physics, we can create and destroy the energy www.amazon.com/dp/B08GVJLPWV

  • @lonelyspaceman4832
    @lonelyspaceman4832 Před 3 lety +126

    6:51 HE DID IT BOYS. HE SAID THE THING!

    • @pierfrancescopeperoni
      @pierfrancescopeperoni Před 3 lety

      That's the second time he says that. But I don't know if it was already a meme.

  • @LiteraIIy_Nobody
    @LiteraIIy_Nobody Před měsícem +1

    4:14
    There would also be friction in that machine. There would also be head transferring through the axle.

  • @stevenelson9640
    @stevenelson9640 Před 2 lety

    "...but no perpetually burning cigar." OK, I'm subscribing right now!

  • @junkerzn7312
    @junkerzn7312 Před 5 lety +160

    Ah, yes, zero point energy. The guy I worked for 20 years ago was an analog engineer and he also was a patent examiner on the side. I remember long conversations on the phone where he would have to carefully explain to various inventors why their energy extraction devices wouldn't work. They tried to avoid saying the word 'perpetual', but basically that is what their patent applications usually amounted to. Reverse-entropic devices.... for example, trying to extract usable energy from johnson noise, and stuff like that.
    There were inventions that passed his desk that did produce energy... just not very much, and most of the inventors didn't understand physics well enough to know where the energy was actually coming from... but thought they had something wonderful when what they really had was a really inefficient solar panel or thermal gradient device.
    -Matt

    • @scotthammond3230
      @scotthammond3230 Před 5 lety +20

      I almost feel these quacks should be celebrated a bit instead of ridiculed. It takes a lot of effort, imagination and drive to create these things. However their creations unfortunately just add to the anti-science wave of moon landings, flat earths, global warming, antivax, etc.

    • @Bob5mith
      @Bob5mith Před 5 lety +27

      Every once in a while I go down the CZcams "free energy" rabbit hole. On rare occasions I can get someone to understand there is no energy in magnets to extract. Mostly, they just freak out and call me names. I only wish "big oil" would pay me to point out the obvious in comment sections.

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat Před 5 lety +19

      Yeah but you probably didn't try attaching flywheels to the electromagnets, that's what did it. The laws of thermodynamics will stop being true if I add enough physically confusing pieces to my grand design.

    • @gordonlawrence4749
      @gordonlawrence4749 Před 5 lety +1

      There is a third category which is neither thermal or PV, it goes back to crystal sets and you can get a measurable amount of power from a truckload of antennae and tank circuits with a cats whisker type diode. Basically you can get a few microwatts out of each one.

    • @gordonlawrence4749
      @gordonlawrence4749 Před 5 lety +7

      @@scotthammond3230 I hope you mean moon landing deniers and global warming deniers.

  • @BLADESTER128
    @BLADESTER128 Před 5 lety +226

    -creates perpetual motion machine
    Quantum physics wants to know your location. Not momentum though

    • @MegaBanne
      @MegaBanne Před 5 lety +4

      Haha, that's lame.

    • @myst1c164
      @myst1c164 Před 5 lety +3

      Super!
      I guess no one got it.
      It was supposed to be like SUPER POSITION

    • @ZeroSleap
      @ZeroSleap Před 5 lety

      Quantum Physics won't see you running :P

    • @BallenTrades
      @BallenTrades Před 5 lety

      i want to put this on a shirt

    • @WolfLykaios
      @WolfLykaios Před 5 lety

      Oh, Arceus, that's the definition of nerdiness xD

  • @markcasey2517
    @markcasey2517 Před 5 měsíci

    Best episode ever, Matt. ❤

  • @smileyp4535
    @smileyp4535 Před 2 lety

    12:07 I thought the quote was somthing like "how man vankai mirrors have you pursued?" And I went to look it up with a few different spellings until coming back to see the CC and found out what he actually said 😂

  • @non-inertialobserver946
    @non-inertialobserver946 Před 5 lety +394

    Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this 😂👌

    • @crazieeez
      @crazieeez Před 5 lety +8

      @ViperDaniel Where in quantum mechanics says this is forbidden? There is NO SUCH THING as time in quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics believe time is an emergent property. An any kind of MOTION machine requires time for motion, as such quantum mechanics doesn't say any such thing that this is forbidden.

    • @non-inertialobserver946
      @non-inertialobserver946 Před 5 lety +13

      @@crazieeez boi

    • @crazieeez
      @crazieeez Před 5 lety +4

      @XX-M.A. haha thanks for the heads up

    • @crazieeez
      @crazieeez Před 5 lety +6

      @William Burns Who say I will. There are crazier people who will do it and they may be successful so however much anger you have now, will be mute. :) Today's idiot is tomorrow's genius.

    • @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS
      @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS Před 5 lety +8

      @@crazieeez I wouldn't bank on that... LUL

  • @evank3718
    @evank3718 Před 3 lety +144

    My favorite example is charging your phone with a light-powered charger powered by your phone flashlight

    • @JohnPaulBuce
      @JohnPaulBuce Před 3 lety +6

      its like charging but with extra steps

    • @MattH-wg7ou
      @MattH-wg7ou Před 3 lety +21

      @@JohnPaulBuce *discharging

    • @JohnPaulBuce
      @JohnPaulBuce Před 3 lety

      @@MattH-wg7ou wat

    • @JohnPaulBuce
      @JohnPaulBuce Před 3 lety +2

      @@MattH-wg7ou oh yeah i got it lol

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy Před 3 lety +3

      I've got another one for you: Making the room colder by leaving the fridge door open.

  • @AutoBodyEverything
    @AutoBodyEverything Před 2 lety +1

    The closest we’ll ever get would still be impossible because of gravity which ALSO creates friction because it’s inevitable that separate parts will be touching another. Also all and any device must be balanced for the least loss of energy BUT then again that allows an equal balance distribution of energy made and energy used which cancels itself out.

  • @bigdoug1558
    @bigdoug1558 Před 2 lety

    I had a teacher who was a Perpetual Motion Machine, he never stopped.

  • @kingbarriga
    @kingbarriga Před 5 lety +64

    happy days when Space Time uploads

    • @justinr8425
      @justinr8425 Před 5 lety

      Kingbarriga
      I look forward to taking my lunch break on Thursdays (usually) and watching new video. My one and only subscription is space time.

  • @terryboyer1342
    @terryboyer1342 Před 5 lety +185

    No such thing as a perpetual motion machine? This guy obviously hasn't spent much time around two year olds.

    • @DapperHesher
      @DapperHesher Před 5 lety +50

      They get old and die. #science

    • @andrewloesl4968
      @andrewloesl4968 Před 5 lety +6

      @@DapperHesher savage

    • @thunder_bug_1451
      @thunder_bug_1451 Před 5 lety +6

      Do you not feed your kids?

    • @FutureChaosTV
      @FutureChaosTV Před 5 lety +8

      They go to sleep once in a while, don't they?

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 Před 5 lety +13

      @William Burns They self fuel as they move around. Most anything they see goes into their mouth. :)))

  • @10Tabris01
    @10Tabris01 Před 2 lety

    I'd like to give honorary mention to the perpetuum mobile thought up in the German children's book "Jim Knopf", in which a steam locomotive was to be pulled forward by a pair of magnets, granting it the ability to fly

  • @Dragonblaster1
    @Dragonblaster1 Před 2 lety

    Likewise, the Fontus evaporative water condenser (the project has now gone bust). It relies on the ground always being cooler that the air above (also high local humidity, which usually doesn’t result in deserts, which is why hot Florida isn’t exactly like the Sahara Desert). However, by the water vapour giving up its latent heat of evaporation, the soil around the unit will soon warm up until there is no temperature gradient.

  • @Aphong10
    @Aphong10 Před 5 lety +108

    8:05 ElectroBoom!!!! 😂 But you made it look like he was creating a perpetual machine instead he was debunking said machine.... I wonder why 🤔

    • @amyanmarcitizen7030
      @amyanmarcitizen7030 Před 5 lety +3

      ElectroBOOM!

    • @solargoldfish
      @solargoldfish Před 5 lety +19

      They should add annotations over his part so people know he doesn’t make videos about fake inventions and they can clear his good name. He spends so much of his time debunking those videos. I really hate to see him being made a joke by PBS

    • @bustixf1
      @bustixf1 Před 5 lety +7

      @@solargoldfish i dislike the video cause of that.

    • @excavateboy
      @excavateboy Před 5 lety

      I was going to mention that he did a video debunking pmm's. Hilariously

    • @SandhillCrane42
      @SandhillCrane42 Před 4 lety +2

      That video is very funny, it did show it blow up in the clip, so hopefully people saw it was a joke.

  • @Etabobable
    @Etabobable Před 3 lety +574

    This guy is the regular sized version of Peter Dinklage.

    • @tsukuyomi835
      @tsukuyomi835 Před 3 lety +27

      I came to the comment section looking for this. Thanks

    • @thisisnahian6753
      @thisisnahian6753 Před 3 lety +13

      i came too looking for this 🤣

    • @cowboyneverdycowboynevercr2027
      @cowboyneverdycowboynevercr2027 Před 3 lety +7

      @@thisisnahian6753
      Thats the man that is in the biography, documentary, movie of the actor of Fantasy Island 🏝? Isn't it?

    • @cowboyneverdycowboynevercr2027
      @cowboyneverdycowboynevercr2027 Před 3 lety +6

      Well, get a generater to start a big microwave producing machine that steams H²O 🌫 and turbines turn creating electricity.
      A electricity substation off to the side regulating the ⚡and the generator that started the microwave steam machine, can then get its own ⚡from self giving electricity to keep microwaving and steaming turbines that make the energy.
      Cool the steam to recycle itself back thru the machine and still have a water supply from nature to use as well.
      🙂 🤝🏼🙃☝🏼😉
      Do l have anything?

    • @DeadInside24_7
      @DeadInside24_7 Před 3 lety +10

      When i read this i was wondering who peter dknlage was. The i looked at the guy in the video. I see EXACTLY what you mean 🤣🤣🤣

  • @danelfernandez6571
    @danelfernandez6571 Před 2 lety +4

    1:48 that one is so stupid it's actually hilarious 😂, why would the ball fall throw the hole, a magnet strong enough to pull it up isn't gonna let it fall

    • @rickcollins1825
      @rickcollins1825 Před měsícem

      I gave that a thought for a moment. I don't know you are right. The ball is being pulled up a ramp. That requires less force than to hold it against the direct pull of gravity.

  • @radinelaj3932
    @radinelaj3932 Před 2 lety +1

    It will 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋. Because the "starting force" go to end up, it will not increase but it will decrease during the process, , it mean : the process( the cycle) will finish( end) soon

  • @alifarhat667
    @alifarhat667 Před 5 lety +125

    Would you say that perpetual motion machines will be perpetually proposed?

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli Před 5 lety +3

      The universe would need to be a perpetual motion machine to do that. Stop dark energy from spreading everything out and then maybe we can talk about it.

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli Před 5 lety +4

      ​@Adam George The universe is only estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, so we're still "near the very beginning of infinity". Keep in mind that you can only exist to observe the universe during the time period during which it has low enough entropy to support your existence (ie, relatively close to the beginning).
      But as for the rest of what you said, no, motion doesn't "stop". Energy will always exist in the universe, it will simply be too spread out to interact with other energy after a while. It will still exhibit quantum behavior and experience changes in its trajectory that keep it from being "perpetual motion", but some form of motion will always exist.

    • @Muykle
      @Muykle Před 5 lety

      As the heat death of the universe approaches, i imagine sentient creatures will still try to formulate something like that.

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom Před 5 lety

      @Adam George Infinity doesn't exist.

    • @bassimkiani5504
      @bassimkiani5504 Před 5 lety

      that alliteration is just gold 👌

  • @roboman342
    @roboman342 Před 5 lety +215

    It's always Friction. Saved you 11 mins.

  • @HesseJamez
    @HesseJamez Před 7 měsíci

    The main problem is: You will NEVER get more energy out of it than you have put in before.

  • @caseyford3368
    @caseyford3368 Před 2 lety +1

    When using weights or the structure of the kinetic energy generator use neodymium magnets and conductive materials for the rods or whatever you're using for the body.

  • @likebutton3136
    @likebutton3136 Před 5 lety +364

    Tyrion Lannister got taller? This episode of G.O.T confuses me.

    • @arohk4415
      @arohk4415 Před 5 lety +7

      But he's just as smart in this form.

    • @MrShanester117
      @MrShanester117 Před 5 lety +2

      John Carlson
      Got is stupid

    • @RCWOZDUDE
      @RCWOZDUDE Před 5 lety +1

      Lmao

    • @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627
      @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 Před 5 lety +11

      @@MrShanester117 Just for the sake of irony..
      A television show does not posses intellect. It is not a being.
      So who is stupid now?

    • @AmericanFry
      @AmericanFry Před 5 lety +3

      I was just about to say the same thing 😂 he even does the hand thing

  • @randomuser1093
    @randomuser1093 Před 4 lety +86

    Our goal shouldn’t be trying to create a perpetual motion Maschine, it should trying to create something that’s close to one, which is possible

    • @CorwynGC
      @CorwynGC Před 4 lety +43

      This pursuit is called engineering.

    • @jackthorton10
      @jackthorton10 Před 4 lety +2

      Genuine

    • @DigGil3
      @DigGil3 Před 4 lety

      So what you are saying is fusion power

    • @robertc895
      @robertc895 Před 4 lety +3

      @Jacob Turnbaugh Thats simply not true. Did you watch the video? Perhaps things are perpetual in the theoretical entire expansion and contraction of universes. If the expansion reverses and all the energy expended collects back into a black hole, and the cycle perfectly starts over again, then you are correct. But we don't know that, therefore you are just wrong. Planets slow down over time, suns burn out, hawking radiation, heat radiation, vibration slowing inertia, etc etc. Please explain yourself.

    • @robertc895
      @robertc895 Před 4 lety +2

      @Jacob Turnbaugh Nope. Magnets lose their efficacy over time mate.

  • @kiuperhyper5795
    @kiuperhyper5795 Před 2 lety

    My idea was a improvement of the magnet fan motor trick. Has the second pair of magnets comes around, a cam shaft pushs the magnet out of the way preventing the magnetic back repulsion that stops most of these things. reason it wouldn't work is because to much energy might get lost in between camshaft pushes

    • @davelowets
      @davelowets Před rokem +2

      This has been tried OVER and OVER with zero results

  • @caseyford3368
    @caseyford3368 Před 2 lety +4

    Think of a ball with energy despersal nobs on the whole outside to transfer energy created to whatever your powering. Then think of having a second, free-floating ball wall inside to help compress the energy created.

    • @davelowets
      @davelowets Před rokem

      Huh?

    • @davidgill3356
      @davidgill3356 Před rokem

      Wow dude, just wow. You need to realize that spouting off gibberish from you brain doesn’t equal reality.

  • @AppNasty
    @AppNasty Před 3 lety +41

    I love how this video bassically just takes a huge perpetual crap all over everyone attempting to make a perpetual motion machine. Haha!

    • @303elliott
      @303elliott Před 3 lety +3

      I'm glad people are still trying. Will it ever amount to a perpetual motion machine? Well no. But maybe we'll get some cool new data from their attempts!

    • @0623kaboom
      @0623kaboom Před 3 lety

      he defined perpetual motion as a system that runs with no external energy input ... then he demonstrates a machine that receives no external energy input and chooses a PORTION of that to say it is not possible ... like taking a carberutor from and engine and saying it cannot create enough power to move a 1 ton vehicle ... well duh of course not the carb is only a PART of the system .... he made the worst mistake in science possible he removed logic from his rebuttal and got it wrong ...
      leave the carb in the system turn the key and poof the engine works and moves the 1 ton vehicle ... using a portion of a system to refute its claims is BAD SCIENCE .... and that gets taught in the first week of all science classes ... guess he skipped that week

  • @EctorBonilha
    @EctorBonilha Před 5 lety +180

    Even if you can't create a perpetual motion machine, creating a 10.000 years motion machine would already be pretty good right?

    • @arturorosas2170
      @arturorosas2170 Před 5 lety +12

      You need extract that energy from some thing, "Equivalent exchange young alchemist"

    • @younewser
      @younewser Před 5 lety +28

      That’s kind of the point that I get confused about with all the people who just want to debunk perpetual motion. What I find most interesting is the passive energy generation and the challenge of making an efficient system. Even if you could have a machine that could charge your phone at night, that would be awesome.

    • @simonchapman9201
      @simonchapman9201 Před 5 lety +3

      You refer to perpetually motion visual display. A low energy input is needed, lowering energy loss is good

    • @zibbezabba2491
      @zibbezabba2491 Před 5 lety +7

      Absolutely not. We must stick to the rules, perpetual means forever. What use is a perpetual motion machine that only runs for 10,000 years? /s

    • @EloquentTroll
      @EloquentTroll Před 5 lety +8

      10 year semi perpetual motion machine sounds pretty good as long as it looks cool

  • @Cymatic7
    @Cymatic7 Před rokem

    The hardest part about perpetual motion is finding a CZcams video about perpetual motion without a comment mentioning hiding a battery.

  • @ducker09
    @ducker09 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Closest to perpetual motion I've seen , is a clock in city of Dunedin , New Zealand university.

  • @Kevin-cm5kc
    @Kevin-cm5kc Před 5 lety +107

    As someone with no background in physics, i disagree. Here, let me explain. See what you do is...

    • @ronrothrock7116
      @ronrothrock7116 Před 5 lety +6

      The interesting this is, trained scientists have trouble thinking outside the box they are put in. If they start off from the position that something is impossible, then they will not try to do it. The person to find this, if it IS possible, will end up being the person you are ridiculing. Rather than mocking them, treat them like children and pat them on the head and say, "Keep trying". If they succeed we all win, right?

    • @rursus8354
      @rursus8354 Před 5 lety +1

      I hate nerd humour! Go get a girlfriend!

    • @jcdenton5828
      @jcdenton5828 Před 5 lety +2

      Peter Rabitt hey! Keep your strap on lady boy fan-ism to yourself.
      Don’t go down the LGBTQ path

    • @PaLcEk89
      @PaLcEk89 Před 5 lety +4

      Peter Rabitt at least pc will not bitch about feminism and female rights

    • @Egregius
      @Egregius Před 5 lety +4

      @George Bennett This is actually causing the moon's orbit to decrease over time, as it loses momentum. So..'fraid not.

  • @Bluemilk92
    @Bluemilk92 Před 5 lety +52

    TL;DR I've never noticed it before, but PBS has been one of the biggest educational institutions of my entire life. It's "done it's job" _so_ well, for so long.
    I *really* don't want to come off as patronizing. This channel really does make me proud of PBS. I'm so astounded by how well they've adapted to CZcams. This content in particular almost feels like it's evolved with me, in a personal way. When I watched PBS as a kid, it was stuff that was just complex enough to actually be educational.
    Then cable came around, and I assume they had more freedom to challenge their audience, so while I was a young man, I remember learning new stuff. Even though I spent most of my life at a school, I learned.
    Now as an adult, who spent endless hours as a teenager watching physics specials and nature documentaries, I'm still being taught. I've learned from what they taught me, and now they're teaching me something else. Like they're keeping track of what I know. That's what I mean by it feels personal. They're SO SO SO good at their job, bless them.

    • @medexamtoolsdotcom
      @medexamtoolsdotcom Před 5 lety +1

      Too bad about their ideological agenda on top of that subtly brainwashing you. Not THESE videos, not the spacetime videos with this guy, but some of the others.

    • @rays5163
      @rays5163 Před 5 lety +4

      I know right big bird is a facist bastard snowflake or whatever

    • @zigmeisterful
      @zigmeisterful Před 5 lety

      @@rays5163 Big Bird is a straight up muthafuckin National Socialist.

    • @yuno9121
      @yuno9121 Před 5 lety

      So um. Youre constantly being taught but what are you using the knowledge for?

    • @LyricsOfALifetime
      @LyricsOfALifetime Před 5 lety +2

      @@yuno9121 None of your business. This person could be an environmental scientist, a doctor, systems engineer, etc making a difference every day. What are YOU contributing to society? Maybe it's just interesting to learn about this stuff. I'm a painter who would never understand the more nuanced aspect of physics and q. mechanics, but I would much rather spend my free time watching videos like these without pretentious assholes like you asking what I'm going to do with that information condescendingly.

  • @gustavedelior3683
    @gustavedelior3683 Před rokem +3

    My physics teacher had a fit of laughter when we were building machines based on perpetual motion machines, we were seeing of everyone in class who's machine ran longest, my teacher thought this year he has something that could potentially become a PMM. I said to him before you build a perpetual machine, shouldn't you first find perpetual materials to build it from.

    • @manscapedgrinch1427
      @manscapedgrinch1427 Před rokem

      My concern exactly, I've wondered about ideal building materials for decades.. the design doesn't matter if it is still subject to degradation

    • @davelowets
      @davelowets Před rokem

      I wouldnt want that teacher

  • @thevoiceofscience6930
    @thevoiceofscience6930 Před rokem +1

    If perpetual motion was possible, physics would break. The laws which would be broken would have terrible implications elsewhere. Such violations of these laws could open the door for other, unforeseeable things; like a creature which never needs to eat, photosynthesize, or look for chemicals.

  • @wrongtoolforthejob5576
    @wrongtoolforthejob5576 Před 5 lety +15

    The best proof that entropy always increases is that if the opposite were true, perpetual motion machines would gradually invent and build themselves.

  • @PhilipLeitch
    @PhilipLeitch Před 5 lety +42

    I invented a perpetual motion drone. It was too good and flew away. It's still up there somewhere....

    • @djstapler
      @djstapler Před 5 lety

      Lol

    • @DonVitoCS2workshop
      @DonVitoCS2workshop Před 5 lety

      That's unfortunate..

    • @uncaboat2399
      @uncaboat2399 Před 4 lety

      That reminds of a science fiction short story I read some time ago, where the guy accidentally invented a ball with a super-unity bounce ratio. That is, if you dropped it from 100 cm high, it would bounce back up 102 cm. Cute story, spoilers, it proved to have disastrous consequences, particularly when it was bouncing miles and miles into the sky, each bounce was like a meteor impact, and they couldn't figure out how to catch the damn thing.

    • @paulshereshaw6092
      @paulshereshaw6092 Před 4 lety

      I think it just flew by my house

  • @haikkokorian3323
    @haikkokorian3323 Před 2 lety

    Trying to create a perpetual machine is the best school of physics. James Watt dealt with this subject several decades before ending up with the steam machine.

  • @caseyford3368
    @caseyford3368 Před 2 lety +2

    With nano threading throughout the whole vehicle all light or other energies can be captured used or stored as well.😎👍

  • @Candid_Clips
    @Candid_Clips Před 4 lety +173

    Bro this is a great way to pass time while having questions answered, I wish this was in podcast form!

    • @STR82DVD
      @STR82DVD Před 4 lety +8

      I just download them as to become available.

    • @rubenirinco310
      @rubenirinco310 Před 3 lety +1

      @@STR82DVD zzz

    • @donniegoodman8679
      @donniegoodman8679 Před 3 lety

      @@STR82DVD in my 78888

    • @zerkblue8174
      @zerkblue8174 Před 3 lety

      @Ginge5ify i hear you!!!!! That voice of john tho lol warm greetings from NZ

    • @ThePrufessa
      @ThePrufessa Před 3 lety

      @@STR82DVD not everyone has a premium account

  • @onuktav
    @onuktav Před 5 lety +50

    ElectroBoom! Great guy! Smart and funny as hell. 😁

    • @leonardoadomingues
      @leonardoadomingues Před 5 lety +3

      The video that os showed on this video is in fact Medi showing how a perpetual motion machine can't generate his own electricity!! Very funny guy!!

    • @mykulpierce
      @mykulpierce Před 5 lety

      KVL is for the bird though

  • @pseudolullus
    @pseudolullus Před 2 lety +1

    Ericsson's caloric engine is a nice 19th century example which was actually built and used to propel a ship. Now the engine worked... terribly badly because Ericsson thought he could magically recycle heat without losses through an exchanger

    • @rickcollins1825
      @rickcollins1825 Před měsícem

      It works because you supply it with heat. Hence the term "caloric".

  • @ianirwin9480
    @ianirwin9480 Před 2 lety +1

    Even Willy Wonka couldn't perfect the recipe for the Everlasting Gobstopper

  • @-Gous-
    @-Gous- Před 3 lety +48

    I hate that its Not possible, Imagine how cool it would be, it needs to be patched.

    • @crimzon5326
      @crimzon5326 Před 3 lety +19

      @Vadim VeeVoit the problem is that idk if you're being serious or not

    • @crimzon5326
      @crimzon5326 Před 3 lety +10

      @Vadim VeeVoit that's why I said there's a problem, cause there wasn't any funny tone, looks like you weren't joking, unfortunately🙄

    • @crimzon5326
      @crimzon5326 Před 3 lety +26

      @Vadim VeeVoit look if we're bringing IQ into this then I want you to know, you are currently arguing with a 14 year old about classified technology. I'm not saying that classified technology doesn't exist, but don't you think that if someone had groundbreaking evidence that a perpetual motion machine exists, then it would be everywhere? And don't hit me with "oh the government controls the internet" Because if they did then you wouldn't be posting about how the government has tech like this. Go back to your Facebook group you, tinfoil hat wearing, 5g causes cancer, plandemic, motel cumstain for a brain, conspiracy theorist.

    • @conservativedemocracyenjoyer
      @conservativedemocracyenjoyer Před 3 lety +10

      Well this conversation went down the shitter real quick.

    • @evil2862
      @evil2862 Před 3 lety +2

      Alex The Air Monk damn you must be real fed up with these conspiracy theorists

  • @1MegaBubble
    @1MegaBubble Před 2 lety +34

    I lasted an entire 5 minutes of this video and learned something from the miniscule bit that I could grasp before finally accepting that this discussion is miles above my head

    • @MrMJE13
      @MrMJE13 Před 2 lety +2

      Glad im not the only one, still neat

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 Před 2 lety +2

      @1MegaBubble
      If you first go and really LEARN the metric system, you will most likely be able to understand this as a result, and then it won't be kilometers over your head.

    • @Oberon4278
      @Oberon4278 Před 2 lety +2

      Oh it's okay! We're all like that. Just keep watching, the knowledge will sort of accrete over time.

    • @spectrumtraining7422
      @spectrumtraining7422 Před 2 lety

      its better that way ... continue to search Gods word only for knowledge and understanding

  • @justinengland5750
    @justinengland5750 Před 2 lety

    With the magnet and ball bearing.. I'm sure you could make a hole and design where the ball won't hit the magnet.. perhaps put a stick that prevents it from getting to the magnet and then it drops down the hole instead of float over it.. and it just keeps Goin..

  • @three6nine992
    @three6nine992 Před 2 lety +2

    How about we use magnetism to create a "perpetual motion" machine?
    Use a gear driven rotating magnet, one poll is shielded to prevent interactions.
    The rotating magnet exposes the unshielded poll at the proper moment that repells another magnet placed on a wheel, thereby making the wheel spin....
    Have multiple spinning magnets and multiple wheel magnets all adjusted to make the wheel continue its motion perpetually.....
    The spinning magnets movement is driven by the wheel rotating, the spinning magnets are fixed in place but spin like a top.

    • @three6nine992
      @three6nine992 Před 2 lety

      If the Universe has a finite life, there is no such thing as infinity so there can be no perpetual anything unless you base "perpetual" on the idea of individual perspective...
      Is a wheel that spins for 40 years any less perpetual to an observer who only lives 30 years than if it spins for eternity?

    • @rickcollins1825
      @rickcollins1825 Před měsícem

      @@three6nine992 Yes, 40 years is not perpetual. The point is to have no energy input. Inputting energy at the start and having it coast for a long time is not the point. People have designed things that last a long time. A college (I think in the UK) has a bell that has been ringing for over a hundred and maybe 200 years. It's just a couple of very long lasting batteries and a very low energy bell. It's still not perpetual energy.

    • @three6nine992
      @three6nine992 Před měsícem

      @@rickcollins1825 it is as close to perpetual one can get using actual mechanics.. in order to achieve actual perpetual motion, one would need to utilize my unified theory in physics.. here is a presentation to get you started.
      Elastic Space-Time Threads Theory: A Universe
      Woven from Infinite Threads
      March 19, 2024
      1 Introduction
      The Elastic Space-Time Threads Theory conceptualizes the universe as an intri-
      cate fabric composed of infinite threads. These threads are not contained within
      the universe; they are the very essence of the universe, defining its structure and
      dynamics.
      2 Infinite Threads and Space-Time Fabric
      Uthread = lim
      l→∞ Z l
      0
      T (Di) dl (1)
      Here, Uthread represents the universe as a function of the infinite threads T (Di),
      integrated over their infinite length l in dimension Di
      .
      3 Fundamental Forces and Mass from Thread
      Interactions
      Ffundamental(Di
      , Dj ) = Z
      I
      Ginteraction(Di
      , Dj ) · T
      (n)
      ij dI (2)
      Ffundamental(Di
      , Dj ) denotes the fundamental forces or mass emerging from the
      interactions between threads in dimensions Di and Dj , with Ginteraction(Di
      , Dj )
      being the interaction strength and T
      (n)
      ij the topological factor in the n-th di-
      mension, integrated over all interactions I.
      4 Thread Dynamics and the Nature of Reality
      Rreality(Di) = X
      12
      n=1
      Φ
      (n)
      thread(Di) (3)
      1

    • @three6nine992
      @three6nine992 Před měsícem

      @@rickcollins1825 there is no difference to the man who only lived 30 years, the wheel spun for eternity as far as he is concerned.. with the proper material science, the wheel would spin for hundreds or thousands of years before mechanical failure....

  • @Remmington-qb3pp
    @Remmington-qb3pp Před 3 lety +12

    That's it, i'm on my way to see the lawmaker of thermodynamics.

  • @ravenlord4
    @ravenlord4 Před 5 lety +53

    Assuming a positive cosmological constant, isn't the expanding universe the ultimate perpetual motion machine?

    • @ravenlord4
      @ravenlord4 Před 5 lety +5

      @Es D Negative wouldn't work. It's been shown that you'd only get a limited number of Big Bang / Big Crunch oscillations.

    • @ericalbers4867
      @ericalbers4867 Před 5 lety +16

      @@ravenlord4 yes but... the universe itself isn't bound to the laws of physics. Only the matter and evergy is on a local level.
      The real question here is: in an expanding universe, is energy conserved? If so, how? If not, rethink your laws or decouple them from your assumptions about the nature of the beginning/end of the universe. Because on a cosmological scale the laws of thermodynamics are fanboy trash.

    • @bigdickpornsuperstar
      @bigdickpornsuperstar Před 5 lety +3

      The universe is NOT perpetual.... it has an end.

    • @bigdickpornsuperstar
      @bigdickpornsuperstar Před 5 lety +5

      @@ericalbers4867 ~"On a cosmological scale" is the only place where the laws of thermodynamics ultimately apply.
      On a human scale it only matters as an equation of efficiency.
      But until the last proton decays some billion trillion years in the future, the laws of thermodynamics ARE on a cosmological scale.

    • @NonDelusional74611
      @NonDelusional74611 Před 5 lety +1

      Jerry VanNuys is an icy eternity spent getting closer and closer and closer and closer to absolute zero....an “ end”?

  • @rcmakingtracks18
    @rcmakingtracks18 Před rokem +1

    Brilliant, liked and subscribed. John

  • @gruntopolouski5919
    @gruntopolouski5919 Před rokem +3

    I’m intrigued by the use of a siphon to move water uphill… always have been.

    • @stewiesaidthat
      @stewiesaidthat Před rokem

      Siphons don't move water uphill, they move it downhill by routing it over a hump to create negative pressure. Trees and plants and even dirt itself can move water uphill via capillary action.

    • @davelowets
      @davelowets Před rokem +1

      A siphon HAS to have more downhill than uphill, or it would cease to function

  • @Superphilipp
    @Superphilipp Před 5 lety +6

    2:01 "... and the self-blowing windmill."
    Ah, yes, I remember those more youthful days...

    • @colek4246
      @colek4246 Před 5 lety

      Superphilipp bruh

    • @spacejamgoliath
      @spacejamgoliath Před 5 lety

      Let me get this right. As a youth, you used to blow yourself?

    • @partsunknown9738
      @partsunknown9738 Před 5 lety

      spacejamgoliath you’ve never done that? Man once you try you’ll never need a girl again. The only down side is the constant chapped lips.