Blog post: swansont: Remember, The Simpsons is Fiction

This perpetual motion machine she made today is a joke! It just keeps going faster and faster.

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Lisa! Get in here. In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! - Homer J Simpson

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Short version: no, it won't work.

“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.â€

— Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928)