The most common perpetual motion design has been the self-propelled wheel, usually driven by a series of magnets or weights. One of the earliest designs, described in a 1,500-year-old Sanskrit ...

Designing a perpetual motion machine has a very long history and became quite the craze from the middle ages through the renaissance. The first well-documented design for a perpetual motion ...

If only we could tweak our design just a little bit, it would work. To others (like me), perpetual motion machines are impossible—they don't fit with our well-tested ideas of the conservation of ...

Da Vinci could be accused of playing both sides, as his notebook contained designs for several different perpetual motion machines (though it's unlikely he thought they would work), including a ...

A perpetual motion machine is (as the name implies) a machine that moves perpetually; it never stops. Ever. So if you created one today and set it going, it would keep on going until the Big Freeze.

The search for a perpetual motion machine has been the chupacabra of physics for centuries. Multiple designs have been made, tested and, ultimately, found lacking. Perpetual motion machines are ...

Leonardo da Vinci, back in 1494, said: Oh ye seekers after perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you pursued? Go and take your place with the alchemists. There was a rumor in the 8th ...

How a perpetual motion machine can power an AI ... AI is dominating the search engines so can it design systems for itself? Of course it can. That’s what I tasked the AI system to work on ...

In his tragicomic first novel, “The Dream of Perpetual Motion,” Dexter Palmer takes elements from Nabokov, Neal Stephenson, Steven Millhauser and “The Tempest,” tosses them into a retro ...