Inventors have been coming up with designs for perpetual motion machines for centuries even though they’re completely impossible. Perpetual motion machines are impossible, right? They violate the laws ...

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 ...

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