A System Cannot Return to Its Original State Left to Itself
Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.
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To do so would create a perpetual motion machine.
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