Perpetual:
1. Continuing forever,
2. Occurring continually. Indefinitely long-continued.
I found this argument on a political forum about energy and oil.
Don’t atoms, the solar system, and the galaxy itself perpetually move?
Yes. They move, but not perpetually. Anything that has a definite end is not perpetual. The motion of an electron, a planet or a star will end eventually. They are not perpetual.
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