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Subject: Perpetual motion, IMPOSSIBLE!!!... or is it?

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chris

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Date Posted: 21:42:52 09/15/03 Mon

I�ve often wondered whether or not perpetual motion, and the laws of thermal dynamics are quite as accurate as the faith we placed in them, so I got on the net a couple of years ago and began surfing for possibilities of the wondrous feat. After a while of searching, I stumbled upon a magnificent thing called superfluids, which are, for those of you who don�t know, a fluid which has no viscosity or inner friction, so once this begins to spin, at whatever speed it never stops� Are you as confused as I am? How can we possibly sit here and state perpetual motion is impossible, when we have clearly proved it�s not!
Take Helium 3 for example, basically helium molecules frozen very near to absolute zero (around 2.17 Deg.K I seem to remember it being) granted, this involves pumping energy in to sustain the temperature, but since the input is not a direct derivative of the spin itself, the motion remains perpetual. And this also creates kinetic energy which I�m sure there�s lots of weird and wonderful ways to extract without a loss, with a superconductor of around the same temperature (try firing electrons into it, that usually works! ^_^)
My question for the world is why the hell haven�t we investigated this on a much larger basis? WHY do we still protest that perpetual motion is impossible, and what are we going to do about it?

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Re: Perpetual motion, IMPOSSIBLE!!!... or is it?	R.K.Sharma	10:37:44 02/01/04 Sun