Timeline for Perpetuum Mobile
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Nov 13, 2011 at 23:03 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | Obey the laws of physics, or else: cartoonstock.com/lowres/rth0286l.jpg | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 20:15 | comment | added | GMRA | "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" | |
| Jan 24, 2010 at 4:47 | comment | added | Harrison Brown | I'll be reminded of it now! Perpetual motion machines of the first kind, though, always remind me of a wonderful gag from The Simpsons: "This perpetual motion machine Lisa made today is a joke! It just keeps going faster and faster!" | |
| Jan 7, 2010 at 4:46 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | There is a footnote in Hobsbawm's book on the 20th century where he observes that "what puzzles physicists is not whether quarks are there, but why they are never alone". I have always loved it. | |
| Jan 7, 2010 at 4:34 | comment | added | t3suji | No, you're not the only one. Wasn't there also a story about the Maxwell Demon of the Second Kind :) | |
| Jan 6, 2010 at 6:36 | history | answered | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
