Countless attempts to design and make the so-called perpetual motion machines work since ancient times were not at all accidental. The Jesuits, for example, in the Middle Ages, in secret laboratories worked day and night to get the so-called mercury wheels to spin incessantly. Having presented a lot of technological breakthroughs, eternal mechanisms, without becoming eternal, also gave rise to beautiful legends …
The classified Irish "perpetual motion machine"
As soon as the Irish company "Steorn" spread the news around the world in 2006 that within its walls, "as if wound up for centuries", a direct current generator, based on the principle of interaction of floating magnetic fields, was generating, further information was cut off like a razor. The public relations coordinator of the Irish Ministry of Defense responded very specifically to inquiries sent to the firm's press service by scientists from other countries: The prototype is in the jurisdiction of national priorities, which excludes publicity.
Still, shortly before the taboo was imposed, it became known about the mysterious generator that the en has an efficiency that exceeds all permissible limits for similar machines. That the principle of zero-point oscillations embedded in the generator allows, for an arbitrarily long time, to receive environmentally friendly electricity in truly inexhaustible volumes.
Built into a mobile phone, this miniature generator, called the Orbo, generates five to six times more electricity than a traditional one. But, unlike a traditional generator, it does not need recharging. He is able to work forever, according to the assurance of the designers, "until the details crumble into molecules and atoms, until they turn into dust."
The attention from the Irish microscopic perpetual motion machine was diverted in 2006 by the Canadian engineer Thane Heinz, owner and sole employee of Potential Difference lnc, a specialist in the use of magnetic materials in the energy sector. In an effort to create an electric generator close to the ideal generator, he mated the drive shaft of the electric motor with a rotor, on the outside of which small round magnets were attached.
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Here something strange and unexpected happened. The rotor, located inside the electric coil, instead of slowing down, rapidly increased speed, burning off the light bulb connected to the generator output. The magnets tore off the rotor, nearly killing Heinz, damaging the instrumentation and laboratory walls like grenade fragments.
The inventor rejoiced. After all, it is not clear how, but magnetic friction, contrary to the laws of thermodynamics, was transformed into magnetic acceleration. Is it really a perpetual motion machine? To answer such a sacramental question, the generator was transported from Canada to the USA, to the famous laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Heinz's device showed amazing results there too.
But the promised testing in the presence of leading experts in the field of generating plants did not take place. Reporters were quick to call the opening a bluff. Heinz did not react to the attacks. There are persistent rumors that he was lured to the United States, where he led a group of young scientists, fruitfully using his and their talents under the roof of the defense department.
Tome from the Vatican
The folio, stored in the Vatican Museum, dating from 1563, contains extensive information about the efforts of the monk Lolly Bara, designed and manufactured by which wheels, suspended in free space on a string woven from horsehair, by themselves, without accelerating, without decelerating, rotated for exactly a year and three days.
As it is said in the folio, the young monks who succeeded in prayers constantly asked the Lord not to stop the movement. Lolly allegedly started spinning the wheels three times. The third rotational cycle was the most productive. The wheels, whistling, were spinning for 25 years, already without prayer, stopping forever at the moment of the inventor's death.
The folio explains the possibility of "unconditional" realization of perpetual motion in this way:
“Mercury, which is one third filled with the hollow spokes of the wheels, attracted and absorbed the energy of the desires of the prayer books. Pouring over critical points, this liquid metal elixir twisted, spun, sounded. The beech wood of the chiseled wheels, the hair string from the long activity did not wear out at all. But all the aspirations to repeat the feat of Bar, with his death did not give hope for a result. Mercury wheels and a string were placed in the monastic crypt of his burial, which made the place sacred."
Isaac Newton, in his notes of a naturalist, with bewilderment and annoyance, wrote of his powerlessness to explain the phenomenon of mercury fillers of wooden gears, which, before his eyes, "disdaining friction and gravity", rotated the gears without external influence, by no means forever, but over a period of weeks, months, years. This "mirage" Newton observed in the workshop of the royal watchmaker and jeweler, Jew John Malyar. By the way, only silk threads held the system of rotating gears half a meter from the floor level.
At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889, in the "Palace of Machines" pavilion, the excitement was caused by a German exhibit - a weighty silver horseshoe constantly revolving around a tightly stretched steel string. Heinrich Miller, an engineer of the Triumph companies, who gives explanations, assured that this is a real eternal, in no way in contact with the string, unsupported engine, capable of spinning for centuries. The horseshoe really revolved throughout the exhibition.
It is also known that in 1936 this "eternal horseshoe" was demonstrated in Berlin, after which the designers were asked to transform its fantastic, but toy capabilities, into something useful for the army, navy and aviation.
Alexander VOLODEV
