Ha, there's always a skeptic. I'm sure that was a major breakthrough for some folks out there.
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I'm sure it works better than any Irish perpetual-motion machine, anyway.
Posted on 01/22/2002 5:43:47 AM PST by blam
They may be about to change their minds, however. Two researchers in the US are pointing out that physicists have swept some "humiliating" problems with black holes under the carpet. By confronting these problems, they say, they have found an alternative fate for a collapsing star.
Emil Mottola of theLos Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Pawel Mazur of the University of South Carolina in Columbia think it mightturn into an exotic bubble of superdense matter, an object they call a gravastar.
I read this somewheere
It means they're not likely to be forthcoming, O Lord. RightWhale was asking for details; do you think he's likely to get them?
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Personally speaking I'd have to say Black 47 are the best Irish music export! :-)
Try here. You might also find out why we think there are black holes, even though we've never seen them.
Not bad, but Stiff Little Fingers gets my vote.
Examples? Well, Bell and his Telephone, Ford and his "Horseless Carriages", and let's not forget Ron Popeel and his Pocket Fisherman.
I beg to differ, both these men were highly respected. This idea that past "crackpots" have ended up being right is a canard. The vast majority of crack-pot ideas, at least in the modern, scientific era, have turned out to be bullsh*t. There is a difference between being "unorthodox" and crackpot. Perpetual motion is just about the most cracked of the crackpot ideas there is.
Black helicopters come and take you away. ;-)"If it is a more efficient widget, he should get a patent."What happens if it has military or national security applications (or implications), and is deemed something that would be dangerous to same if it was allowed to fall into the hands of the country's adversaries?
You can still file your application but it becomes secret. You also can’t file a foreign application, IIRC.
patent +AMDG
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Agree completely. I keep hearing lets keep an open mind. However, lets not open it so far all of the brains fall out!
The Office of Patents and Trademarks [if he files in the US] will classify the device as perpetual motion anyway and reject the claims out of hand. He might get a design patent for a magnet configuration, but nothing more.First, the PTO rejects all claims out of hand, regardless of what you are claiming, perpetual motion machine or a new dishwasher. I can count on one hand the number of patents I have seen issue without the claims being rejected. It happens, but rarely. If you want a patent you then have to respond to that objection and demonstrate why you deserve a patent.
Second, if you have a halfway competent attorney it won’t be classified that way. It all depends on how you characterize it, etc. The issue is what he claims. If he claims a perpetual motion machine he won’t get a patent. If he claims a more efficient widget and submits data to back that up, he likely will.
patent +AMDG
Until one of them started spray-painting his own head, anyway.
"Superconducting magnetic levitation."
In a vacuum.
Until the people from the power company discovered the meter bypass line....
Ha, there's always a skeptic. I'm sure that was a major breakthrough for some folks out there.
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I'm sure it works better than any Irish perpetual-motion machine, anyway.
Static electricity is not an available source of electricity waiting to be tapped. It is the result of the forceful re-distribution of positive and negative charges in air. It takes work to get these charges distributed correctly and there is always loss in the forceful re-distribution, hence, the Laws of Thermodynamics are still in effect.
You still don't have free energy lying around. It's just like other forms of energy; they are all potential forms of energy and the conversion of energy makes it useful, whether it's oil or Hydrogen from water or natural gas, etc.
Not so. The standard car battery voltage can vary all the way up to 13.8 volts. The total when they started (48.9) was more than 12 x 4 = 48 volts anyway. The way they conducted the test was not an unreasonable assumption about energy transfer back to the batteries but who the heck knows what was in that "black box"? Sounds suspicious.
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