Hello, I don’t know if there is already a thread about this, but I tried searching for it and I couldn’t find one.
When I was in a school a while back I was showed this video by a teacher of a supposed “working perpetual motion machine.” At that time I was aware that perpetual motion was thought to be impossible due to the laws of thermodynamics however, I lacked the knowledge necessary to debunk it myself.
When I was in a school a while back I was showed this video by a teacher of a supposed “working perpetual motion machine.” At that time I was aware that perpetual motion was thought to be impossible due to the laws of thermodynamics however, I lacked the knowledge necessary to debunk it myself.
The video in question is this: [embedded content]Source: https://youtu.be/zqG-TL0WnjE
and the specific part which I was shown starts at 1:59
I decided to ask a science teacher but they couldn’t figure it. out (It’s worth noting that they weren’t a physics teacher.)
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