On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> However I do not think that it is anymore complex idea than refrigerator > magnet that is doing endless work >against gravity or electron that can orbit > nucleus without losing it's energy. In your example no work is performed according to the definition of work that physicists developed about two centuries ago. Unless the magnet displaces itself upwards the magnet hasn't accomplished anything from the standpoint of conventional physics. Unfortunately physics has no concept of stationary work. harry
