[AFreeBird]

There is not much that would attract the attention of the physicists and engineers of the world quicker than a slight hint of such a possibility. Every last one of them would put his project car out of the garage and start building these new devices in that space this weekend.

No doubt!

Oddly enough there was a hint, but nobody seemed interested, at least publically.

Tell me this. If you were the one to stumble onto this phenomena, one that would rewrite our future, destroy and create industries overnight; a method or device that patent offices around the world would refuse to even look at - would you throw it up on the net with all the other "free energy devices" for all the world to see, or would you sucumb to you own mercinary, materialistic needs and want to get it pantened so you could license it and feed your family and get that Carribean Island you always wanted?

And if the latter, wouldn't you need the scientific validation to take to the patent office with you?

[thackney]

And if the latter, wouldn't you need the scientific validation to take to the patent office with you?

No you don't. You can patent the process without it even working.

[RightWhale]

In my present position in the world I would publish right here on FR and let everybody have the tech for free. I would also wander up to the EE Dept on campus and talk to a couple profs. They would probably head straight to the lab or the supercomputer and somebody would show up from the media and then I would take a hotel room in a distant city and become a man in disguise on the run shunning publicity.