Gifted ideas are something that many folks come up with from time to time. Sometimes those ideas baffle people who have had the best education money can buy, and decades in the given field.
These are some of the best ideas. They are not hindered by the rules of physics as they are understood. From time to time, those ideas defy the rules. They tap into some unknown loophole. Don’t let someone give you a flippant response to dash your hopes that your idea could lead to something.
Test yourself. Expand on your ideas. Know your limits, but don’t give up easily.
Here this woman came up with something that shouldn’t have worked. It did.
It happens more often than the educated brilliant minds want you to think.
Common simple solutions defy the brainiacs.
I love it when they do.
Ingenuity folks... it’s the genius in each of us.
Your thoughts remind me of a great Heinlein quote...
“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”
“Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.” - Robert A. Heinlein
The composite armor on an M1 or Challenger tank are also nothing new — but the exact arrangement of the plates, and their spacing are very much secret and the reason it works. Arrange them a little differently and it doesn’t work so well.
Note the date. She didn't come up with something new at all. Modified, perhaps, but not new.
New Shear Thickening Fluid (STF) enables flexible, comfortable armor August 12, 2006
Since warfare began, developing armor has been a balance between the need for protection and the need for comfort, flexibility and light weight. A new nanotechnology known as Shear Thickening Fluid (STF) created by scientists at ARL and UDTC looks set to provide the next generation of armor. STF has the ability to make ballistic fabrics highly resistant to penetration when impacted by a spike, knife or bullet without compromising their weight, comfort or flexibility.
I don't see what the big stink is.