People are so excited by the word "eternity" that they are ready to devote their entire short life to the search for endless wealth, constant youth, unquenchable fire … Why do you think? Why does a person need something incorruptible? To make history? To help humanity? To prove that the laws of physics don't always work?
A perpetual motion machine (from the Latin perpetuum mobile) is a fictional machine that needs to be started only once and will run for an unlimited amount of time. No energy consumption. Breaking all the laws of physics. A fairy tale and nothing more. But that is why we and humans are to believe in miracles.
How long will it take to construct a perpetual machine and run it? And the main question: how long can it work continuously?
Let's try to figure it out using the example of Thane Hines' unusual generator.
The Canadian inventor has developed a unique mechanism, which he gave the name Perepiteia (peripetia, from the Greek: "sudden complication" or "embarrassment"). It is not for nothing that the invention received such an original name. Haines planned to improve the conventional generator with magnets as early as 1985. Development continued until 2006, when suddenly the car started causing acceleration instead of maintaining a constant rotational speed.
Hines' technically designed mechanism is an asynchronous motor with a rotor that houses small round magnets. According to the inventor, during the operation of the rotor, the magnets will pass through the wire coil, and this process will cause the current to flow.
Thane Hines generator.
During the experiments, an unexpected result was obtained. The rotor, which was working on the load, had to start spinning more slowly and eventually stop. But (for still unknown reasons) the rotor began to revolve faster and faster until the magnets flew apart and crashed into walls. The partitions of the laboratory were severely damaged. The blows from the magnets were very strong. The conclusion of the experiment: the rotor accelerated, completely ignoring Lenz's law.
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I wonder what the inventor felt at that moment? Was he pleasantly surprised or maybe, on the contrary, upset by the unexpected end of the test? I suppose he was overjoyed. After all, perhaps he gave birth to something "immortal", and this will allow him to leave his mark on the history of science.
So is this really a perpetual motion machine? To answer this question, the generator was brought from Canada to the United States. Marcus Zahn, an American professor, studied the unusual mechanism, but could not explain how it worked.
The tests were to be carried out on January 28, 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the presence of experts from generating plants. For more than 20 years, Hines developed and cared for his brainchild before the bright heads of modern science drew attention to it. 20 years! But how many more experiments and improvements were ahead.
But for unknown reasons, testing did not take place. Rumor has it that Thane Hines stayed in the United States of America and now leads a group of defense scientists that have found a place to use his talents.
And we can only guess: whether he opened a perpetual motion machine or in vain made noise around an ordinary generator.
People are driven by curiosity. Simple human "what will happen if …". And this cannot be changed. Humanity will always strive for new discoveries, to conquer new heights.
But at the moment we have only an eternal dream of a perpetual motion machine.