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"Perpetual Motion" is a bit of a misnomer. The term should be "perpetual force".

If it were "perpetual motion", then everything would constantly be in relative perpetual motion until death of the universe. For example: despite me sitting motionless relative to my computer, I am moving relative to the moon, or the sun, or pretty much everything else in the universe.




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