An Amusing Remark on Perpetual Motion Machine (New Fable of Scientific Exploration)[1]
Foreword——In the Science Palace
The brilliant and grand science palace is the most trustworthy and fairest place that people revere and long to visit. The crystallization of human intelligence has constructed its brilliance. There is no discrimination: The remarkable contribution of Faraday from poor family has won its respect; There is no flattery: The famous ancient Greek scholar Aristotle’s fallacy that “a heavy object falls faster than a light one” naturally has made way for the Galileo’s conclusion that “any object has the same acceleration of gravity”; And there is no restriction: So long as ideas, opinions, theory systems or inventions and discoveries are based on exact facts and indisputable demonstration, they all can get its affirmation.
Some theories are abstruse not because they pretend to be but because they are exploring for the truth. Certainly there are some mistakes, but only made by honest ignorance. From the view of descendants standing on a giant's shoulder, loopholes appear frequently in the predecessors' system. But both the presumptuousness of pseudoscience and the imitation with ulterior motives will certainly be blocked outside the threshold of the palace or driven out forever. Our tiny particles (namely Brownian particles: particles suspending in the liquid, gas) are stepping into the palace of perpetual motion machine among row upon row of the palace edifices. Facing the confrontation between new ideas and old ones we have a well-thought-out plan, sincerity and modesty might not always indicate merit, but will bring refinement and distillation...
①"First round ..."(Work on the Brownian particles is a phenomenon of perpetual motion machine)
In fact, preconceived ideas make already-existing scientific theories the pros of debate, and our tiny particles play the cons role in the following rounds without exception:
【The first round: the conversation between tiny particles as the cons and Mr. Negation of perpetual motion machine of the first category as the pros】.
【The pros: 】Scientific common sense tells us that the perpetual motion machine is one kind of【fantasy engine that cannot be realized 】. Once someone attempted to make 【one kind of machine that does not consume any energy but can work forever 】, namely, 【the perpetual motion machine of the first category 】. Since it has violated the first law of thermodynamics, it cannot be realized!
【The cons: 】With regard to the definition of “the perpetual motion machine of the first category” (one kind of machine that does not consume any energy but can work forever), Brownian movement is the phenomenon of the perpetual motion machine. For example, in the glass, clean water in the state of thermal dynamic equilibrium (with the things around such as glass, air, etc.), makes work on the Brownian particles put in water, spreading all over the whole glass of water , and makes work in particles forever, keeping well-distributed state of Brownian movement. This is the effect of the perpetual motion machine, which can be called Brownian perpetual motion machine.
Because of the thermal equilibrium between Brownian particles and surrounding things such as glass, air, etc., the heat absorption of water is: Q=0, and the water temperature does not change, namely △E=0. So internal energy increment is zero. It is obvious that the clean water in glass is a machine that can make work in Brownian particles forever without consuming any energy. It accords with the definition of the perpetual motion machine of the first category. Namely, it is the perpetual motion machine of the first category. So the fact proves that the perpetual motion machine of the first category has already existed, and certainly can be realized!
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