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Is it possible or is it a perpetual motion machine?

DDWFTTW Debunked?!

mim Armand
8 min readJul 7, 2021

A Saga of Directly Downwind Faster Than The Wind!

Another Perpetual Motion Machine?!
A Perpetual Motion Machine or a solution for maritime transportation?!

TL;DR

Events!

  • Derek from Veritasium made a video about how DDWFTTW is possible!
  • DDWFTTW is the abbreviation for going Directly Downwind Faster Than The Wind itself. this has been a hot topic of discussion for a long time and for apparent reasons!
  • Then, a UCLA professor, Alex Kusenko disputed the achievement claim and accepted a bet proposed by Derek Muller.
  • He later conceded the claim and transferred the Somme to Derek.
  • I still couldn’t see how it could work, tried to debunk it, but ended up debunking myself more than anything else!

Unlike either of these gentlemen, I’m not a physicist, but from my limited knowledge, I thought that Alex was right and I didn’t quiet understand why he conceded the wager, so I expressed my opinion on Twitter and got attacked by people and, somehow, was even compared to…

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mim Armand
mim Armand

Written by mim Armand

Sr Solutions Architect / Technology evangelist and Consultant / Teacher / Artist / Everything!

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