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·A FANCIFUL HISTORY· of Perpetual Motion Machines Classical Period BCE Inventors have numerous contraptions, all of which are considered complicated. Popular mythology inadvertently attributes all their operation to the work of the gods. ---------------------------------------------------- First Transition 400 CE The Burning of the Library Subsequently, their construction is forgotten, as they are considered complicated (the work of the gods). --------------------------------------------------- Barbaric Times 401 CE - 1100 CE Inventors are frowned upon as devils for even thinking such 'divine machines' are possible. The inventions acquire a bad reputation, perhaps because the inventions cannot conduct a peace-keeping mission (political reasons). ----------------------------------------------------- The Golden Standard 1100 - 1667 Perpetual motion sets a golden standard for science, a standard people begin to say, is impossible to meet. Instead of working on the machines, most people fascinate themselves with things already considered workable, according to the paradigm of science, even things that existed before science was official, such as clockwork, which can be said to be a work of the gods. ---------------------------------------------------- The "First Machine Age" 1667 - 1860 CE The industrial revolution ushers in what is called the first machine age, although these machines do not run themselves, but are run by burning fuels such as wood and coal. The indoors wood stove emerges rather later than people might think. ---------------------------------------------------- The "Second Machine Age" 1860 -2000CE The age of computer is ushered in, although much of the progress simply has to do with the fine engineering of physical tools for production. Again, the potential simplicity of perpetual motion is forgotten. ---------------------------------------------------- The Third or Fourth Machine Age? 2000 - 3000 CE Reidar Finsrud and Nathan Coppedge and some others seem near to providing definite proof of perpetual motion or something very similar. The obvious arc is simply from the concept of complexity, through the concept of distractions, to the real concept: call it appropriate obsession if you like. -------------------------------------------------------------- |
