Perpetual motion

[R300will]

wormburner said:

Your remarkable gifts have left quite a few of us behind.

Do you think you could engineer a perpetual hamster wheel, staffed by dedicated and immortal GM hamsters? 'Perfectly theoretically possible', as a wise man once said, especially for a clever vet.

Is anyone else on your team besides you, an extremely slippery axle, and a long long wait to the end of time?

Yes, your wife/sister/girlfriend (delete as appropriate)

[hairykrishna]

Exactly what's the 'end of time' anyway? Heat death of the universe?

[R300will]

hairykrishna said:

Exactly what's the 'end of time' anyway? Heat death of the universe?

Depending on theories, either the point at which it all crunches back to nothing, or when everything reaches 0K. etc.

[Eighteeteewhy]

Ok, the bearings will wear out and the magnets will eventually 'run out' of magnetism, but quite impressive, no?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqG-TL0WnjE&fea...

[-Pete-]

If it's invented, don't doubt it for one second, it will be taxed at around 70%.

[Lazygraduate]

Eighteeteewhy said:

Ok, the bearings will wear out and the magnets will eventually 'run out' of magnetism, but quite impressive, no?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqG-TL0WnjE&fea...

A cool thing to have on your desk for sure!

Edit: just re-read this thread. Which seemed to lead to a lot of this :

Edited by Lazygraduate on Tuesday 27th November 23:37

[Terminator X]

davepoth said:

The most credible theories involve wormholes, and for those to work properly you need to have built an exit to the wormhole. Therefore you would only be able to travel back to the point in time at which the wormhole exit was switched on.

Where are all these people from the future then given that time travel is possible?

TX.

[Simpo Two]

Eighteeteewhy said:

Ok, the bearings will wear out and the magnets will eventually 'run out' of magnetism, but quite impressive, no?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqG-TL0WnjE&fea...

At 1'30" I thought the wheel was driving a fake forearm... which struck me as a neat idea!

[juan king]

[GokTweed]

This thread will probably go on forever

[PugwasHDJ80]

GokTweed said:

This thread will probably go on forever

Hann it'll grind to a halt eventually

[anonymous-user]

My GF and I had an minor argument last week about what sort of breakfast cereal we should buy. She's still going on about it, does this count as perpetual motion? ;-)

[juan king]

if only you could harness the energy from all that hot air

[menguin]

I'm almost with R300 Will on this

[nellyleelephant]

menguin said:

I'm almost with R300 Will on this

This is either quite clever, or I deserve the whoosh parrot.

[Brother D]

R300will said:

hairykrishna said:

Exactly what's the 'end of time' anyway? Heat death of the universe?

Depending on theories, either the point at which it all crunches back to nothing, or when everything reaches 0K. etc.

So just a uniform amorphous state with no energy available to do any 'useful' work.

I think 'heat' needs to be replaced with 'depressing' for this possible fate.

[Lazygraduate]

nellyleelephant said:

menguin said:

I'm almost with R300 Will on this

This is either quite clever, or I deserve the whoosh parrot.

Well, almost is the same as forever, right?

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