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To: general_re
So by your esteemed reasoning...

Perpetual motion is possible. All I have to do is have an experimenter spin a flywheel with instructions to his progeny to do the same.

Come on General...Modern Physics may have problems with the laws of thermodynamics...now you too?

212 posted on 02/16/2005 11:51:52 AM PST by animoveritas (Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.)
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To: animoveritas
Perpetual motion is possible. All I have to do is have an experimenter spin a flywheel with instructions to his progeny to do the same.

Is this an attempt to wear me down with sustained silliness? You can invent a crappy model, therefore all models are crappy? Is that really your argument?

perpetual motion, n. - The hypothetical continuous operation of an isolated mechanical device or other closed system without a sustaining energy source.

If'n yer always givin' it a push, it ain't operatin' "without a sustaining energy source", right? Therefore, your model does not reflect the critical aspect of the thing you're supposed to be studying, now does it?

214 posted on 02/16/2005 11:59:38 AM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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