Yes, but the universe acts as a unit. We don't exactly know the hows/whys/wheres/whats of magnetism and gravity. They react on the motion of the whole universe both macro-cosmically and micro-cosmically. Does this mean that someday the whole universe will run down and stop, simply because we make electricity? If we knew the answer to that question, we would have the perfect Unified Field Theory as a Law.
We understand electricity, magnetism, and energy pretty well. Over time, energy diffuses from higher concentrations (like stars) to area of lower concentration, and may eventually reach a uniform state. It's like have a pot of hot water in a room. Over time, the pot cools down as the energy diffuses to the rest of the room, and the rest of the room warms up a little bit. Eventually, the "universe" in this example (pot + room) reaches a steady-state in which the energy is even distributed throughout the room (i.e., the temperature of the room and the temperature of the pot are the same). The same kind of thing is happening to the universe as a whole.
Yes this is correct, the general theory is called the "heat death" of the universe, where it approaches maximum entropy and basically does "run down and stop". I don't see how this relates to having Unified Field Theory as a law?
Anyway all these ideas of "perpetual motion" and over-unity devices are utter bollocks, it is impossible to create a device that produces more energy than it consumes. I've had this conversation with some of my conspiracy theorist friends, who are adamant that this technology exists and is being "suppressed" by the government. Yet they can never show any proof other than shitty youtube videos.
The other idea which tends to be thrown around is that it's possible to harness "zero-point energy", which I don't believe as it violates Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle: If we were to "extract" the zero-point energy, then we would know the position AND speed of the particle.
I do accept that large energy corporations/governments
could be suppressing other energy technologies, such as more efficient ways of harnessing renewable energy, nuclear fusion research, thorium based power etc.
But this idea that they are suppressing simple, cheap perpetual motion/over-unity machines (that defy the known laws of thermodynamics) that we could all power our homes with is just nonsense, sorry.
Okay. Let's see if I can say it really clearly and briefly.
First Class: Perpetual Motion, as a noun, where it could be written PerpetualMotion, or Perpetual-motion, is what the scientists mean, and what the laymen usually do NOT mean. This PM means, once started into motion, no added energy, no energy loss, and continuing to run perpetually.
Second Class: Perpetual motion as the layman usually means it is where you get out at least a little more energy than you put in. Magnet motor generators fall into this class.
First Class is impossible by any means science understands because their is always loss due to friction.
Second Class is impossible because you can't get more out of something than there is in it.
There is a Third Class. This is where a form of energy that we do not understand and can't even observe is going in, and it is being converted, to come out in a form that we DO understand, like static magnetism or active electricity. There are all kinds of people that call this Third Class, PERPETUAL MOTION.
If anybody is so bold that he claims that he knows FOR A FACT that we know everything about the universe, he is a fool. We ABSOLUTELY DON'T know for a fact that a magnet is NOT a converter of some form of energy that we know little or nothing about, and that the magnet, itself, helps us to convert that unknown energy into electrical energy.
Is someone wrong for calling something like this magnetic generator/motor a perpetual motion machine? In the technical sense, yes. But there will come a time - and it might be here already - when enough people call this a PM machine, so it is accepted by such in the eyes of everybody.
There are two more things to say:
1. much of the disagreement in this topic is over semantics;
2. I believe that there are political trolls who are constantly suggesting that such a "perpetual motion" machine can't work, because they are working for the government and the power companies, and are trying to keep the power companies from losing any more money than they are already losing to solar.
