(via Royal Institution) Perpetual motion machines are tantalising. Videos of contraptions claiming to have achieved the impossible goal of endless free motion rack up millions of views on YouTube. But ...

Well, not only is ‘Real or Fake?’ back with a new installment, but this time it concerns everybody’s favorite impossibility: perpetual motion machines!

A 'perpetual motion machine' that can continue working without applying energy from outside is impossible in the real world. However, figurines that look like perpetual motion machines are being ...

Perpetual motion can't be real, although we can delude ourselves Bill Perkins Jun 21, 2024 Updated Jul 29, 2024 0 ...

The difference between Thane Heins’ perpetual-motion invention Perepiteia and last year’s flop Steorn Orbo is that when it was demonstrated last week—to scientists at MIT, no less—it ...

A 4-step reality check for anyone who thinks they've invented a perpetual motion machine.

Perpetual motion—it's fun to say that. For some people, perpetual motion machines hold the secret to everlasting free energy that will save the world. To them, it's a machine that is just beyond our ...

Such a machine will not be a real perpetual motion machine, because it will eventually exhaust that source of energy, or it will wear itself out or tear itself apart.

That the possibility of a perpetual motion machine has not been entirely given up will be understood when it is learned that 575 application for patents for suC'h apparatus were made to the ...