You have taken it to countless repair shops, spending a small fortune trying to get the thing fixed. Year after year, decade after decade, you have spent countless hours and a lot of money trying to make your machine work.

One day in 2010, you take your perpetual motion machine to a repair shop. The repairman says to you, "This machine is not broken. It is inherently defective. It was never capable of working. The person who sold you this machine did a number on you. No matter what you do, no matter how much money you spend, no matter ho

You're angry, and you refuse to accept what he has told you. You spend the next 10 years and lots of money trying to make your perpetual motion machine work.

Finally, however, you come to the realization that the man was right. You realize that your perpetual motion machine isn't broken but rather inherently defective. Broken means it can conceivably be fixed. Inherently defective means that it is incapable of being fixed. You ditch the machine.

w much time you put into it, you will never make your perpetual motion machine work."