More of a guideline, actually...
So in laymans terms, when the law of conservation of momentum and quantum theory fight, quantum theory wins?
Sounds a bit odd to me that we can observe macroscopic violation of CoM by running one of these engines for a while. Usually the universe applies some kind of accountant's rounding to stuff like this, so over time the effect of quantisation leads to as many round-ups and downs, and no net change is observed.
Can we get quantum theory and the second law of thermodynamics to fight next? That'd be one worth watching.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
