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6 months ago in Thermodynamics By Pavitra

Do we need a nuclear war to finally believe in perpetual motion?

I read someone online claim that gas radiation never reaches equilibrium and that perpetual motion is possible—but scientists are too afraid of nuclear war to admit it. This can't be serious, right?

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By Anusha Answered 1 month ago

It's not serious. The Second Law isn't a fragile theory waiting to collapse under geopolitical pressure. It's one of the most empirically robust laws in physics, backed by centuries of experiments and statistical mechanics. Any claim of a perpetual motion machine requires a reproducible, closed-system violation published in a major peer-reviewed journal. Not a blog post. Not a manifesto. Gas radiation heat transfer is fully understood and obeys thermodynamics just fine.

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