Despite decades of feverish and fraudulent research, the perpetual motion machine remains elusive. By perpetual motion, gadgeteers really mean perpetual work. An object in motion, as Galileo and ...

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 ...

Welcome back my friends to the magnetic machine story that never ends, courtesy of Dublin-based perpetual motion mongers Steorn. One of my two favourite miraculous organisations — in the company, ...

So here is the thing with "perpetual motion"... Any physicist will believe you can make a device arbitrarily close to lossless... that is, you put X energy in, and the object stays spinning (or ...