{"id":2728,"date":"2008-07-08T14:51:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/08\/unworkable-devices\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:51:37","slug":"unworkable-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/08\/unworkable-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Unworkable Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a sort of palate-cleanser after the quantum chicanery discussed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/help_me_locate_kooks.php\">previous post<\/a>, let me recommend Donald Simanek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lhup.edu\/~dsimanek\/museum\/unwork.htm\">Museum of Unworkable Devices<\/a>, a wonderful collection of failed ideas for perpetual motion machines, including explanations of why they don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to turn a couple of these into exam questions, the next time I teach mechanics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sort of palate-cleanser after the quantum chicanery discussed in the previous post, let me recommend Donald Simanek&#8217;s Museum of Unworkable Devices, a wonderful collection of failed ideas for perpetual motion machines, including explanations of why they don&#8217;t work. I&#8217;m tempted to turn a couple of these into exam questions, the next time I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/08\/unworkable-devices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unworkable Devices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}