{"id":14981,"date":"2014-05-28T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2014-05-28T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T08:00:28","slug":"remember-the-simpsons-is-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14981","title":{"rendered":"Remember, The Simpsons is Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This perpetual motion machine she made today is a joke!  It just keeps going faster and faster.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nLisa!  Get in here. In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!<\/em> &#8211; Homer J Simpson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/category\/dotphysics\/\">Perpetual Motion Email Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short version: no, it won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell\u2019s equations \u2014 then so much the worse for Maxwell&#8217;s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation \u2014 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.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Arthur Eddington, <em>The Nature of the Physical World<\/em> (1928)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This perpetual motion machine she made today is a joke! It just keeps going faster and faster. \u2026 Lisa! Get in here. In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! &#8211; Homer J Simpson &nbsp; Perpetual Motion Email Guidelines &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}