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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 ...

Why AI is taking on impossible challenges. How a perpetual motion machine can power an AI. Why we have to put an explicit explanation about an April 1st article so that the search engines don’t ding ...

This thread is about CERN. I've read speculation on how people are trying to make perpetual motion machines from subatomic weirdness. Or finding the "God" particle. Any thoughts? It's rather expensive ...