Perpetual Machines – My Dream ..!
building a perpetual machine is impossible .. and being a student of physics, i am fully aware of that; however, IF i am able to build or find ONE that is close [to perpetual], then i can relax for the rest of my life, and being a lazy person, i would love to have machines work for me .. so, the thought of building a perpetual machine has always been there with me since my engineering school days.
on one fine day in 1997, as i was sitting in the investment class at Santa Clara University, studying stock valuations using discount cash flow analysis, and here we use all sorts of fancy mathematical formulae assuming the corporation will exist in perpetuity ….. & it clicked me .. ah..ha .. the word came back to haunt me after a decade or so .. it may not be possible to build a perpetual machine based on physics & engineering, but its quite possible in finance … WoW … & this idea re-kindled fire inside me ..!
think about Coke [the company] – a Buffett favorite … which turned 100 on Dec 9 2019 … although a 100+ years period is not perpetuity, but it’s beyond an active human lifetime … imagine, a corporation started so many years ago with some seed capital & provides you dividends year after year (due to its sustainable competitive advantage as defined by Mr. Buffett) and still carries a huge value [even after 100 years] is a perpetual machine.
further, a company may last 100+ years and then get on the verge of dying; e.g. GE; & now you know why i stopped investing through stocks …
as in terms of relationships, i look for a time-frame which is beyond Buffett’s, even though i trade almost like a machine … & if you can understand the contrast in my last statement then you would know a lot about me ..!
rain or shine, the NYSE & NASDAQ (aka Ms. Market) open each morning for NY trading hours, while the CME Group is open 23 hours a day, work like a perpetual machine; so, i found my sweat heart & an affair started long time ago ..!
the market runs on continuous flow of news … thanks to Internet, the news arrives non-stop from around the world & people don’t wait for WSJ in the morning … plus electricity and a bunch of computers; she doesn’t even need men anymore [to run] … maybe except one ..!
& she executes billions of transactions on behalf of people as well as machines .. so she has her mood … who wouldn’t in her situation ? … & this project is simply to understand her mood and behaviors … it’s all about her ..!
the stock market (at least the futures market) runs almost non-stop, and will continue to do so beyond my (maybe yours too!) life time … & that’s what i call a long-term relationship ..!
& if you are in resonance (aka romance) with her, i.e vibrating with same frequency – like a happy couple … her energy can be transformed into money, day after day …!
& based on this hypothesis Market energy can be transformed into money (similar to mass & energy formulae given by a funny looking guy that is so last century, but i am a huge admirer of him) … & even though neither mass nor energy can’t be created, money can, as we have a money God (don’t look at the picture on the right, that’s a secret .. sorry Lord Venkatesh ..!) … i am talking about the central banks around the world, who have been printing non-stop, especially in last decade.
here you will find a globe (: the vip collection), which rotates around its axis with no direct power source ..
the globe [model] is filled with liquid magnet which gets charged with sunlight, and is able to store energy within .. although the globe does take energy from an external source (Sun), it doesn’t cost anything but does something for me non-stop; so, from my perspective, it is a perpetual machine ..!