Perpetual Motion Machine

Energy is constant, it can not be created nor destroyed it just passes from one object to another. But soon humans will run out of energy either in the form of fossil fuels which run modern-day machinery and mechanisms that help in the production and manufacturing of goods or in mobile transport. It is hard to imagine a world without machines but what if we could have a machine that produces and runs on its own energy. This was thought by Indian mathematician Bhaskaracharya ( Bhāskara ). He imagined a wheel with certainly shaped reservoirs that moved mercury in a certain direction spinning the wheel forever.

Sadly this idea doesn't work as the spinning motion changes the focal point below the axil. But a perpetual motion machine is always destroyed by the fundamental laws of Thermodynamics. Which are :

• The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another but can be neither created nor destroyed
• The second law states that Friction always occurs and will ruin machinery.

Thermodynamics is a branch in the field of physics By Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius who was a German physicist and mathematician and was considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the theory of heat a truer and a sounder basis.

 

A big thanks to Ted-ed for the inspiring idea and pictures for this post