• mvirts@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Perpetual motion is everywhere in space. Using that motion for doing work will always change the motion, and it will eventually no longer be useful. This is what a perpetual motion machine tries to do but can not.

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      10 days ago

      AFAIK even space will cool down and stop eventually. So not perpetual motion very low friction motion? I know that expansion also plays a role.

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        7 days ago

        If you think about it, when the universe cools down, maybe some rocks will fly forever without hitting anything.

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          7 days ago

          A cooled down universe does not move at all AFAIK. please Look up Brownian motion.

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              5 days ago

              Does a given mass ever get outside the influence of both galaxy’s gravity influences?

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                  5 days ago

                  AFAIK galaxies don’t collide, they merge. There is usually no collision due to the massive empty spaces inbetween stars.

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                    4 days ago

                    I know it’s not a “physical collision”. But the gravity “redesigns” both galaxies and some objects can be accelerated beyond the scape velocity of the galaxies combined.