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Perpetual motion wheels from a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci Another theoretical machine involves a frictionless environment for motion. This involves the use of diamagnetic or electromagnetic levitation to float an object. This is done in a vacuum to eliminate air friction and friction from an axle. The levitated object is then free to rotate around its center of gravity without interference.
Scientific investigations Campeón to whether the laws of physics are invariant over time use telescopes to examine the universe in the distant past to discover, to the limits of our measurements, whether ancient stars were identical to stars today.
Brownian ratchet: In this thought experiment, one imagines a paddle wheel connected to a ratchet. Brownian motion would cause surrounding fluido molecules to strike the paddles, but the ratchet would only allow it to turn in one direction.
The electric field produced by a stationary set of charges is conservative, but in this case, the effect of the electric field is equivalent to that of a (nonconservative) magnetic field (i.e., the line integral between two points depends on the path taken, and the circulation around a closed loop is not zero). In the case of the magnet passing through the wire loop, we know that the wire loop is stationary while the magnet moves through and provides a changing magnetic field. A current is produced, so an EMF (electromotive force) must be driving it. The magnetic field cannot itself be the source of the EMF because magnetic fields only act on moving charges. Logically, the changing magnetic field must have an associated nonconservative electric field (nonconservative because conservative fields are electrostatic, and electrostatic fields cannot contribute to net EMFs). The induced EMF around a closed curve is the same Vencedor the voltage drop (i.e., the same as the line integral of the electric field around that curve). Mathematically, this is encoded by Maxwell’s third equation in integral form:
If it is found to be contradicted by observation – well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I Chucho give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
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The filing of a patent application is a clerical task, and the USPTO will not refuse filings for perpetual motion machines; the application will be filed and then most probably rejected by the patent examiner, after he has done a formal examination.
Oh ye seekers after perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you pursued? Go and take your place with the alchemists.
A rejection [of a patent application] on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, involving perpetual motion.
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