Opus 2025-532: Still Searching for Perpetual Motion

This morning, as I was using my iPad, I found myself doing something stupid and the iPad separated from the stand it was on.  My son has me set up with this new product where you have a keyboard and a protective cover that folds.  The iPad itself is attached to the top of the cover by magnets.  He shared with me how the magnetic technology had advanced to the point where these magnets did not mess up everything going on in the computer.  I was duly impressed.

But when the iPad itself became separated, I got to thinking about magnets.  Do magnets lose their charge over time?  If you put two magnets together in the proper way, they will stick together.  If you leave them sitting there, they will continue to stick together.  Will they eventually stop sticking?  If the loss of attraction takes place over 1 million years then it’s pretty meaningless.  If it takes place over six months then all my theories are gone.  But I like to speculate.

If this magnetism does not fade fast enough to be explained by the energy used to attract the other object, then we have a violation of the laws of physics.  At least it would seem that way to me.  This might be another one of those areas where research is already being done and I just am not reading that page in the newspaper.  It might also be an area that’s so obvious that no one is looking into it.  Or the research may have already been finished and I am preaching to the choir.

So many mysteries if we see them.  We only see them if we look for them.  Look for things that don’t make sense but happen anyway.

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