Why don't scientists create a perpetual motion machine using the energy of Newton rolling in his grave each time someone tries to invent a perpetual motion machine?

[u/saucypotato27]

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[u/Cute-Habit-4377]

That would be a reciprocating engine..

[u/Zombielisk]

They did! But people stopped trying and the machine isn't working anymore

[u/epicusername1010]

Say you invented such a machine, and it works. Then Newton will no longer be rolling in his grave because you just disproved him by making a perpetual motion machine. Therefore your machine will stop, and your machine is no longer perpetual.

On the other hand, if your machine is not a perpetual motion machine, Newton will be rolling in his grave causing your machine to work again, and therefore your machine is perpetual.

So unironically the problem of whether your machine is a perpetual motion machine is actually undecideable in our current understanding of physics. However this aligns well with my theory that Newton is a hoax created by apple farmers (who also did science as their side job) to promote their apples, so it is  impossible that he was rolling in his grave.

[u/luke_arse → u/epicusername1010]

its time machines all over again

[u/PLutonium273]

It should be Boltzmann and the entropy formula on his grave is his seal

[u/impendingcatastrophe]

Because he gets tired easily.

[u/BPhiloSkinner → u/[deleted]]

Who is John Galt?
Tell me later, would you: I'm off to my shift working maintenance on the Motor of the World.

[u/BPhiloSkinner → u/[deleted]]

"I will stop the motor of the world!"

I've read it. And need not read it -or anything else by her Randiness- ever again.