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Perpetual Motion Dream

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Abstract

Two important consequences of the Newton’s theory are the conservation of energy and the conservation of momentum. Even though these laws are consequences of the Newton’s theory, their universality extends them to all branches of science at all scales.

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    Kumar (2014), p. 29.

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Bayın, S.Ş. (2023). Perpetual Motion Dream. In: The Pursuit of Reality. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1031-1_2

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