• Question: What is your favourite spurious perpetual motion fraud?

    Asked by to Saiful, Paul, Olivia, Oli, Meggi on 5 Jan 2017. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Paul Shearing

      Paul Shearing answered on 5 Jan 2017:

      Even some of the greats have been sucked in by the promise of perpetual motion!

      Check out some of Da Vinci’s proposals, which even though he appreciated they would not work, are really quite beautiful as works of art!

      Perpetual Motion Machines

    • Photo: Oli Weber

      Oli Weber answered on 10 Jan 2017:

      Cats always land on their feet, but toast always lands buttered side down. So if you drop a cat with a piece of buttered toast strapped to its back, it will spin for an infinite amount of time before hitting the ground, in order not to violate these principles.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox

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