Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm 

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Damn, the devs didn’t leave any bugs or glitches in this game.

"The only perpetual thing is our never-ending search" So the perpetual motion machine... was inside us all along?

The real perpetual motion machine was the journey we made along the way.

another (and simpler) way to look at the overbalanced wheel is that while those weights that stick out should be turning the wheel, there's also fewer of them than of the weights on the other side that don't stick out

Me trying to charge my power bank with itself

Why don't we just get rid of these laws of thermodynamics, seems like a simple solution.

1:32 First Law 3:56 Second Law 4:25 Mix of First Law and Second Law (Not Third Law)

A few other things: 1) If a closed system could produce more energy than it consumes, then it would just infinitely accelerate until it.. explodes or something? 2) There is no way to actually prove that a machine would never stop, the same as there is no way to check beforehand if a computer program would loop forever or stop at some point (Tom Scott made a very good video about that)

"There is just one problem: THEY DON'T WORK." such a small problem.

Humans: *gets idea that sounds reasonable and easy to make* Physics: lol no

great video, as someone who loves math and botany at the same time, I would like to add that. It can be very, very difficult for a machine to generate and expend its own energy, but a plant placed in a jar or lantern can create a kind of recirculation by producing its own oxygen and then expending its own carbon dioxide. Of course, another point that needs to be said here is that this plant can achieve this by taking energy from the sun...

I've been asking myself this forever. It never ends.

Law #1: You can't get out more energy than you put in Law #2: *No*

"No machine is 100% efficient because energy is lost as heat" Sad electric heater noises

What... ? Here I am at 70 f__ yrs old and never really knew that! Their art, design and engineering is truly jaw dropping.

I feel like this is one of those things humanity really shouldn't give up on.

*“in this house we follow the laws of thermodynamics!”*

Humans: Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? Friction: *Laughs in Heat*

The hardest part about building a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the battery

Love how to the point these videos are

Humans: Can I? Physics: No.

"As long as you live under my roof, you're gonna live by my rules" - Thermodynamics.

Back to the Laws of Thermodynamics, beloved of my time in the early to mid 1970s, studying Applied Chemistry at Uni. It's so long ago, at the start of the article here, I could only remember the First Law, and the narrative reminded me of the Second aw. If there are any others (I'm honestly not sure), I'll have to look them up.

well said, i enjoyed every moment of this video!

Actually the first law of Thermodynamics is don't talk about Thermodynamics.

Lol it worked before it got patched in universe v0.013

The hardest thing about building a perpetual motion machine is hiding the batteries.😆

Gotta love explanations of things that can't ever be solved!

"perpetual motion doesn't exist" redstone: am i a joke to you

He obviously doesn’t know about Afk machines in Minecraft

If an automatic watch is a half-prepetual machine, we just need another half-prepetual machine to complete its circle.

Wow, I actually learned something!

He obviously doesn't know about taping a piece of buttered bread to a cat

1st law of thermodynamics: We don't talk about thermodynamics.

“The only thing that is truly perpetual is our search” is fr a hard line. Cause at the same time I feel like we are gonna become energy ourself in the future.

2:35 That idea is one also one little problem, evaporation...

"Lisa......in this house we follow the laws of thermodynamics!"

"For now, the one thing that seems truly perpetual is our search." Just put the perpetual searchers on a treadmill.

Great topic

3:16 about that one, what if you make the hole bigger and wider so that the ball still falls through from some kind of slide and then reaches back the starting point? I know it probably wouldn't reach the starting point but if it hypothetically did then would it finally be a true perpetual motion machine?

Simple because physics says we cant have nice things.

Maybe the real perpetual motion machines were the friends we made along the way

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

drop into a open shaft to fill the other side higher counter balance heavy in lighter lift up

I broke the laws of thermodynamics..... Now I'm in physics jail.

The most difficult part of building a free energy device is figuring out the complex Engineering in how to hide the battery.

One thing I say is that if you see or otherwise interact with a perpetual motion machine, that means it doesn't work. For example, if you saw any light from a lightbulb powering itself, that means it let light out and therefore lost energy.

I have a picture on my wall of that perpetual motion one at the 0:46 mark. I never knew what it was until now, but ive looked at it so much wondering how it worked😂

*Law #1:* “Perfectly balanced - as all things should be.” *Law #2:* “The ruinous powers of Chaos.”

Imagine if Newton hadn't invented the laws of thermodynamics

Can someone tell me what type of art of architecture is in the thumbnail (excluding the engines), because I have seen those warped, sketchy, or very jarring images depicted in scenes of cartoons of a style that's out of our world. Or just interpreting foreign terrain idk. I think it's very cool!

English: Even if it were completely self-sustaining, you cannot add or remove energy without changing the system, which would lead to a failure. If you take away energy, it can no longer sustain itself. If you add energy, the whole thing is pointless because you don't mean "perpetuum mobile" as such, but as a generator. E=0, i.e. E=(input=output) and thermodynamics don't play a role because energy is ALWAYS lost, be it through friction or something else, especially if you want to convert electricity into heat or kinetic energy. Of course, I can, for example, equip 2 disks with magnets and let them rotate forever. But you then change the initial situation by building a translation for the desired type of energy, which is absolutely necessary somewhere if you want to use things. Sooner or later the disks stop when the angular momentum ends or is stopped by the magnetic field and you need (relatively quite a lot) of energy to make them rotate. If something like this had already been invented to work, the Internet and newspapers would be full of it. Would be (almost) better than finally seeing a fusion power plant in operation. German: Selbst wenn es sich vollständig selbst erhielte kann man auch dann keine Energie zu- oder abführen ohne das System zu verändern was zu einem Ausfall führen würde. Entnimmt man Energie kann es sich nicht mehr selbst halten. Fügt man Energie zu, ist das ganze Ding sinnlos weil man ja nicht "Perpetuum mobiles" als solches meint, sondern als Generator. E=0 ,also E=(Eingang=Ausgabe) und die Thermodynamik spielen da nicht mit denn es geht IMMER Energie verloren, sei es durch Reibung oder sonst was, erst recht wenn man Strom in Wärme- oder Bewegungsenergie umwandeln will. Klar kann ich beispielsweise 2 Scheiben mit Magneten bestücken und es sich ewig drehen lassen. Nur, verändert man dann die Ausgangslage indem man eine Übersetzung für die gewünschte Energieart baut, was ja irgendwo zwingend erforderlich ist wenn man dingen benutzen will. Über kurz oder lang bleiben die Scheiben stehen wenn der Drehimpuls endet oder vom Magnetfeld beendet wird und man braucht wieder (Verhältnissmäßig ziemlich viel) Energie die es sich drehen ließe. Wäre sowas bereits funktionsfähig erfunden, wären Internet und Zeitungen voll davon. Wäre ja (fast) besser als endlich mal ein Fusionskraftwerk in Betrieb zu sehen.

The animators of TED Ed should be given an award..

if I scratch my dogs belly in the right spot his foot will start to scratch the air. if I keep scratching his foot will get closer and closer to the spot on his belly until he starts scratching there himself. I remove my hand and he continues to scratch the spot that makes him have to scratch. BOOM: perpetual motion machine.

5:03 "the one thing that seems truly prepertial is our search." *THE SOLUTION LITERALLY ON THE SCREEN*

It's an interesting topic.

Bhaskara: *Creates Idea of perpetuarl motion machine* Newton after creating Thermodynamics: "Sorry, we patched it."

Me who has made insane theories: *hmm what if....* Rules of physics: *no just stop*

In the magnet one why don’t we just make a bigger hole and bit more down in the ramp so the ball falls and doesn’t “glue” on to the magnet

2:56 If the only problem in this situation is that the water won't fall back down, what if the tube continued a little more and that part was vertical, and if that won't work, what if something small and thin to fit inside the tube then the water would have to cling onto that stick and the weight of the water would fall back down right?

"He chose the path of perpetual torment"

This glitch was patched in the V.01.2 Update

0:53 good idea just kickstart it and it will make its own light

Since we have wireless charging could a perpetual machine be made to charge a capacitor as it spins but also be used as a small amount of force to act on said machine to assist with motion since wireless charging is magnetic from inductance.

".. one thing that's truly perpetual is our search." what a great ending !

Ever heard of something called an infinite red stone source?

This video just gave me an idea.

What if you drop a ball trough a ramp into itself but it also reaches terminal velocity? Obviously it would need to withstand that.

Infinite water source just make it 2 by 2

So they’ve obviously never plugged an extension chord into itself🙄

Curious if there'll be a video about time crystals.

I believe that the problem is the toroidal influence of the planets axis.so its all fine until the axis reaches an shifting point.And maybe have magnets pushing then switch all of the magnets polarities at once.

"The one thing that seems truly perpetual, is our search." I felt that

Me: *Connects an extension cord to itself* Physics: Hehe I’m in trouble

Working on a wind up engine that just keeps going and can change speed. Wind it a couple of times and it starts moving and winding at the same time.

we need to legislate and change these laws!

Idk, the search for new memes seems pretty perpetual as well

If there can be non-newtonion fluid, why can't there be a perpetual motion machine which may not last forever but if it's working most of the time, what's the problem in starting it again, with help of gravity, etc external forces

The problem with making a perpetual motion machine is that you eventually run out of ways to hide the external power source

trying to invent one of this must be the same feeling of trying a gta5 glitch for 2 hours and then figure out it was already patched

When you try to plug the extension cord in to itself

I've got 2 that work. Static wheel and a stackable permanent mag motor.. Unfortunately they are restricted from patents because they go against vested interests.

What about the super conductor ring with current going it in circles with no signs of slowing down?

Ted ed: Perpetual Motion machines never work Minecraft redstone: Im about to end this mans whole career

Human: We will make PERPETUAL MOTION. Universe: No Human: Why? Universe: Just suffer.

I'm just curious, isn't the sun basically a perpetual motion model? Could be a very very silly question so please enlighten me, just thought that nuclear fusion is basically the definition of perpetual motion?

The only source of free perpetual energy that I can think of is a large antenna that grabs free radio wave energy and converts that into a tiny DC current to be saved into capacitors or otherwise. There will always be free radio frequency energy from natural and other sources.

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But... my procrastination is perpetual

Solves a big Mistry of my childhood

I believe it was Da Vinci that created a kind of windmill that had metal balls in the propeller blades .. the inside of blades had a hollowed out track so as the blades reached the top they'd fall to the center.. and as it spun the ball would force the propeller to turn as the fell towards the out edge of the propeller.. therefore gravity always forcing the blades to turn.. I always wondered why engineers did not incorporate this engineering into wind turbines

Perpetual motion machinery has always interested me, not because I think it's worth pursuing in particular, but because the field is a breeding ground for thoughts about how to overcome energy loss to the extremes. I don't want a perpetual energy source, I want to see a piece of machinery that is so efficient that ones interaction with could be so intuitive and low frequency that practically anyone and their dog could use them to make energy, in the future.

I once saw this in a Dilbert Comic: Dilbert: I’m obsessed with creating a perpetual motion device. Most scientists say it can’t be done, but I have one thing they don’t have. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

The heat death of the universe sure is a scary concept.

I,ve been thinking that if we could change the weight of some material, heavy at the bottom light at the top, like as it passes through some polarity, not sure

That last statement is deep.

"In this house we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!"

By using the properties of water and gravity, you can build a closed loop hydroelectric power station that will produce electricity indefinitely as long as you keep up with the matenance of the moving and electrical parts. Technically, the water will be in popetual motion.

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